Quebrada de Humahuaca and the Salinas Grandes

Departing from Salta heading north on national road 9 will show the traveler how dramatic the changes can be. From the lushness of the cloud forest in la Cornisa road, to the desert looks of the Altiplano, where Salinas Grandes is located, in just an hour drive. But arriving in the salt-flats is not possible without stumbling with UNESCO site Quebrada de Huamahuaca, where locals still farm their lands using the old ways of plowing fields with donkeys and growing veggies from seed they inherited from their ancestors This tour will give the traveler perspective on how humans could thrive in the high valleys of the magnificent Andes mountain range