Buenos Aires and Salta on a Budget 9 Days

Breakfast. 9 am City Tour:  Discover the beauty and wonders of Buenos Aires,see the National Congress, The Metropolitan Cathedral next to the Government House in May Square area. Visit the Colon Theater, one of the most important opera houses in Latin America and San Telmo, traditional neighborhood where Tango performances can be seen in many bars and restaurants. Stop at La Boca colorful neighborhood, which was seat of immigrants - mainly Italians - and now home of some artists.

Enjoy Palermo, an area that combines its architecture and history with entertainment and amusement in its green spaces. Finally, La Recoleta, an exclusive and elegant neighborhood where the famous cemeteryis found.

Free afternoon.

Breakfast. Free Day. In the evening (8 pm), Tango show with dinner: In the very heart of Buenos Aires, this refurbished historic "conventillo" is a classic building of the porteño culture. A Tango Show is a trip to older times.

Professional artists will show you their best art, singing songs and dancing typical pieces, shared with the best tango orchestras. The show consists of several parts in which you can appreciate 2 tango orchestras, a folkloric group, dancers and singers.

Breakfast and check out at 11 am. In the evening,departure to Salta by night bus.

Arrival in Salta in the afternoon. Check in at selected accommodation.

Breakfast.Safari to the Clouds/Purmamarca Excursion: You will travel in the same route as the famous Train to the Clouds, zigzagging on lonely roads between the blue sky and the Puna.  On your way, you will visit magnificent ruins, scattered houses, small villages and amazing landscapes. Departure from Salta will be at 7 am and you will quickly reach the small town of Campo Quijano and later, the impressive Quebradadel Toro. Soon you will leave all signs of vegetation as you enter the realms of the solitary Puna. In Santa Rosa de Tastil, a pre-Inca city of the XIII century, you will do a short archeological hiking. Later, you will reach San Antonio de los Cobres, a small miner´s town rich in tradition and the Train to the Cloudsfinal destination.

Further ahead, a desert plateau will take you to the surreal landscape of the salt flats, where you stop again to walk around and enjoy the contrasts.

In the afternoon, you will return through the overwhelming Lipan mountains and arrive at the Seven-color Hill in Purmamarca, a landmark on its own. You will overnight in this village suspended in time.

Breakfast. Humahuaca Full Day Excursion:

The Humahuaca Gorge is a long narrow and arid valley surrounded by beautiful and colorful mountains.  In addition to its natural beauty, this gorge follows the line of a major cultural route, the Camino Inca, offering substantial evidence of its use as a major trade route over the past 10,000 years. It features visible traces of prehistoric hunter-gatherer communities, of the Inca Empire (15th to 16th centuries) and of the fight for independence in the 19th and 20th centuries.

During the tour we visit the villages of Purmamarca and the Seven color hill, Tilcara, Uquia and Humahuaca.

Arrival to Salta at 7 – 8 pm

Breakfast. Free day to enjoy optional tours or just relax in beautiful Salta city

Breakfast and Check Out.