CACHI // SALTA

Route: 314 km
Departure: 08:00 am.
Length: 12 hours aprox.

Leaving Salta through Cerrillos and El Carril to get into the thick gorge of Escoipe, previous to the great Cuesta del Obispo.
The highest point from the Cuesta is Piedra del Molino located at a height of 10984 ft Represents a gate between two valleys: The Lerma Valley, lower and warm, and the Calchaquíes Valleys, (between Andean foothills bonds, around 3937 ft higher and harsh). We’ll be going through the Recta de Tin Tin, an ancient Inca road, getting into the National Park Los Cardones. We’ll arrive to Cachi, located over the edges of the Calchaquí River at 7251 ft. The colorful town in the Calchaquí Valley has a colonial style combined with pronounced and local architectonics features. It has a main square surrounded by cobblestone streets and houses with bases made of stone, walls covered with lime and sand of a white color, bars of wrought iron and roofs made of canes covered with mud. There are tall sidewalks of stone and slab. We’ll have time to visit the archaeological Museum and the Parochial Church.