Salta City Tours

Breakfast in the morning in the Hotel in Salta, free morning, after the Lunch city tours Start visiting the Historic helmet, Plaza 9 de Julio, the Cathedral, and the ancient Gobernment’s house, San Francisco Church and the San Bernardo monastery in the base of the San Bernardo hill, we will continue to go up to San Bernardo hill to have the panoramic view to the City and the Valle de Lerma, The Güemes monument, Quebrada de Castellanos, San Lorenzo then visit to the handcrafts market, return to the Hotel, dinner and overnight in Salta

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The train over Clouds

After the breakfast in the Hotel, transfer to the train station of Salta, passing by the train stations of Alvarado, Rosario de Lerma, Campo Quijano, Quebrada del Toro, Alisal, Puerta de Tastil, Meseta, Diego de Almagro, Cachinal y San Antonio de los Cobres. The train which conforms ten wagons is loaded by the Diesel engine, one wagon is equiped with nursery room, Central cabin of the informative transmission, one restaurant wagon, one bar wagon and seven wagons for the passengers with comfortable sits with first class service with the capacity for 520 passengers, to gain the altitude the train makes two sig-zags advance and return in the continuous ascended with stops in the places denominated El Alisal y Chorrillos. Realizes two rolling one to the open sky with ways in a radio of 130 meters and a ramp upward two percent and advances centenary of meters until to put the train in the second way parallel by which recedes 750 meters and goes ahead again. As the slope of the hill finishes, Maury Engineer caved a tunnel, curve of 88 meters, when part of the train is introduced; a third way is changed pararell and advances ahead again, in this way gains the altitude passing again by El Alisal 54 meters higher. The train passes by 13 tunnels, iron bridges without balconies, the time of the excursion is approximately 15 hours and it finishes in the tunnel of La Polvorilla situated at 4200masl. Return to the Hotel in Salta dinner and overnight in Salta

Cafayate

after the breakfast in Salta, aboard the private bus direction to south side by the 68 provincial route, during the little journey we will be surprised by many attractive places, while we make the traverse the fertile Valle de Lerena with its tabaco farming, we get into the fascinate landscape the Quebrada de las Conchas or Quebrada de Cafayate. In this place the wind and rain have modelated hills as handcrafts during the million of years such figures in the mountains which give much impression to the visitors, the most denominated mountain figures are: La garganta del Diablo, El Anfiteatro, El Sapo, El Fraile, El Obelisco, La Maqueta de los Andes, el Titanic, etc. after the emotionated tours we arrive to Cafayate around mid day to enjoy its delicious wines and its typical dishes of the region, then we will visit some shops, the handcrafts market, and the main plaza, in the afternoon we will return to Salta, dinner and overnight in Salta Hotel