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Cachi Tour: Explore Valleys, Mountains, and National Park
4.3
15 Ratings
Salta
Embark on a full-day tour from Salta to Cachi and Los Cardones National Park. Explore the charming town of Cachi and marvel at the snow-capped mountain. Discover colonial-style facades and picturesque cobblestone streets.
Embark on a full-day tour from Salta to Cachi and Los Cardones National Park. Explore the charming town of Cachi and marvel at the snow-capped mountain. Discover colonial-style facades and picturesque cobblestone streets.
Duration:
11 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
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Valle de Lerma - We leave Salta through the Lerma Valley towards the south of the province until we reach the town of El Carril to turn west and begin heading towards the Quebrada del Escoipe and the first dream landscapes.
We have technical stops along the way so passengers can go to the bathroom or buy a snack. - Cuesta del Obispo - Imposing…
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Valle de Lerma - We leave Salta through the Lerma Valley towards the south of the province until we reach the town of El Carril to turn west and begin heading towards the Quebrada del Escoipe and the first dream landscapes.
We have technical stops along the way so passengers can go to the bathroom or buy a snack. - Cuesta del Obispo - Imposing Cuesta del Obispo and Valle Encantado, surrounded by mountains. After Piedra del Molino (3,400 m.s.n.m.) you cross Los Cardones National Park.
- Parque Nacional Los Cardones - Leaving the fertile Valley of Lerma behind, you ascend the Quebrada de Escoipe and then continue along the imposing Cuesta del Obispo and Valle Encantado, surrounded by mountains. After Piedra del Molino (3,400 m.s.n.m.) you cross Los Cardones National Park.
- Valle Encantado - Visit grocers and pass through the town where peppers are dried on the side of the road.
- Cachi - We arrive at noon at the colonial town of Cachi and we will have 2 hours free to have lunch and tour this unique town in northern Argentina. Its cobbled streets with its adobe and cobblestone houses allow you to witness a place left in time, which maintains its primordial essence. In these 2 free hours, you can tour these 10 blocks by 10 blocks that the town offers and try its gastronomic variety native to the region. Then we meet again with the guide to begin the return to Salta.
- Valle de Lerma - Before arriving in the city of Salta we make a technical stop in Chicoana or El Carril to buy a snack or go to the bathroom.
What's Included
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Entrance to Los Cardones National Park
- All fees and/or taxes
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Entrance to Los Cardones National Park
- All fees and/or taxes
What's Not Included
- Lunch
- Lunch
Additional Information
Leaving behind the fertile Lerma Valley, we ascend the Quebrada de Escoipe and continue along the imposing Cuesta del Obispo and Valle Encantado, surrounded by mountains. After visiting La Piedra del Molino (3,400 meters above sea level) you will be passing through the Los Cardones National Park. The small and magical town of Cachi, located at the foot…
Leaving behind the fertile Lerma Valley, we ascend the Quebrada de Escoipe and continue along the imposing Cuesta del Obispo and Valle Encantado, surrounded by mountains. After visiting La Piedra del Molino (3,400 meters above sea level) you will be passing through the Los Cardones National Park. The small and magical town of Cachi, located at the foot of the snow-capped mountain of the same name (6,320 meters above sea level), is characterized by its colonial-style facades, with mansions located on the edge of narrow, cobblestone streets. We will visit the Lerma Valley, El Carril, El Maray, Calchaquà Valley, Quebrada de Escoipe, Cuesta del Obispo, Valle Encantado, La Piedra del Molino (3348 meters above sea level), Recta del Tin Tin (11 kilometer road built by the Incas), Los Cardones National Park (only high altitude National Park in Argentina), Sighting of the Nevados de Cachi (6,380 meters above sea level) and 2 free hours in the town of Cachi.
Location
Valle de Lerma
Region Saltena
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.3
(15 Ratings)
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X7096igsoniag
Jul 11, 2024
We travel very safe, excellent driver! - Beautiful tour and scenery!
Very cordial the Guide, excellent information, which he was able to transmit in a pleasant way. A great experience
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Arighio
Jul 2, 2024
Must-see journey - The road from Salta to Cachi is an unmissable if you visit Salta, in that journey you travel the Cuesta del Obispo, with viewpoints with unique views of the valleys, and ending you meet the Los Cardones National Park, you pass through the enchanted Valley , the famous straight line route of Tin Tin and finally viewpoint of the Ventanita Valles Calchaquies
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Gises83
Jun 20, 2024
Cachi and Cardones - Excellent tour! I had a beautiful day. The driver and guide are geniuses!!! Very nice experience and very good information provided by the guide!
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837mariaalejandrar
Jun 20, 2024
Cachi, the place is beautiful and the entire route from Salta is unmissable!! - Excellent minibus driver. Impeccable transportation, clean and new. Jeremias, the excellent guide. He explained in Spanish and English. Very helpful
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Giselaz430
Jun 9, 2024
Passionate! - This tour is amazing! It's so worth it! Los Cardones National Park is incredible, Vale Nevado is beautiful (and you can even buy several seasonings in the region) and Cachi is fascinating!
The operator was very punctual, followed the itinerary exactly and Mônica, our guide, was very friendly! I loved. I highly recommend the tour and La Quebrada Turismo.
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Andreafx3451qk
Mar 30, 2024
Very good experience, excellent driver and guide. - Both the driver (Alejandro) and the guide (Fabian) made us an incredible, culturally rich experience, providing us with many very interesting historical and geographical data. They also recommended a couple of great places in Cachi. On the way back they allowed us to rest and bring us very safely, even though there was a bit of a storm on the way back and the road is not easy at all, also avoiding loose horses, excellent driver. It should be noted that they picked us up on time, in a fairly comfortable van. Let's hope for tomorrow in Cafayate, because if it is because of the person in charge who attends in person (a machirulo) he would have already ruled it out. On top of that, I'm going to have to pay a remise that wasn't in the rate, anyway, business.
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Cuent0sc
Jan 29, 2024
De la Quebrada tourism company - Very good company, hyper-punctual, the guide explained everything, and in price they are one of the most accessible (there are others like Nordic that kill you). I took another excursion with them, also very good (in this case a bilingual guide came because there were people from other countries, and the truth is). I recommend it!!
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Noeliame345yf
Jan 10, 2024
It was ok - We drove 2 hours from Salta when the transport stopped running and we couldn't continue. Luckily we were stranded just 500 meters from a parador so the wait of between 2 and 3 hours we had was not bad, we were able to eat and go to the bathroom, it would have been different if we had stayed in the middle of nowhere. They should control the vehicles before the excursions since the places visited are inhospitable and there is little or no signal to communicate in case of emergency. The group that day was quite large and was made up mostly of foreigners, some only spoke English and the guide did not, therefore they missed the descriptions of the places and the details that were told during the tour. This caught my attention since when booking on the page you can choose the language in which you want to take the excursion, that is, the agency already knows in advance if there will be foreigners.
Despite the delay and the fact that the excursion actually started well after the scheduled time, the agreed stops were respected and we had time for photographs at the viewpoints and in the National Park. We stopped for 45 minutes in Cachi to explore and then returned.
The guide was very friendly and so was the driver, as well as experienced, since the tour is through the mountains and there was little visibility. I only suggest that they be more professional to give the client a good experience, and that if they are foreigners they can enjoy what the guide tells.
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Jordan_b
Jan 18, 2024
I couldn't recommend this... - I couldn't recommend this company. I seem to recall seeing nice reviews for this tour when booking, but I was shocked when we had the tour. The roads are not so smooth in the area, and the driver treated it like a roller coaster. We got bounced and slung around in the bus throughout the day, and it isn't pleasant to feel motion sick from the ride. The microphone in the bus was poor, and the guide's English had such a strong accent that I didn't have many takeaways from this tour. I wasn't alone in my experience. Others we met on the tour had the same experiences and shared with us. They were not interested in any other tours with this company. The company is also linked to other Viator tours, and we unknowingly had two tours with the company. They switched our tours without telling us it was happening, and it messed up our dinner reservations. Overall, this was a very poor experience for us.
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Yildiz_k
Jan 2, 2024
Disappointing - The nature is amazing, the tour company not so much. The bus broke down half way and we have waited 2 hours to get another van sent from the company. The guide spoke zero English and I feel like I missed out on important information. We were supposed to spend 2 hours in Cachi but ended up spending 40 minutes of free time which made it impossible to explore the town properly.
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