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Crossing the Andes - Eastbound
8 days - Nov - From US $ 3,462

This travesía crosses the Andes mountain range between the Atacama Desert, Chile, and Salta, Argentina.

Travelers to this region are given the opportunity to experience the beauty of volcanoes and salt flats interwoven between lakes and marshes throughout territory that rises higher than 4,000 meters. The trip can be taken from Argentina to Chile, or vice versa. In Argentina, guests can visit Salta, one of the oldest colonial villages in Argentina, and also travel the ancient route used during colonial times between the Viceroyalty of Peru and the Viceroyalty of La Plata. Travel through the Calchaquíes Valley, another ancient route and one that features an imposing landscape with traces of the Atacaman Indian culture and other pre-Columbian cultures that once inhabited this region. The Cachi and Molinos villages here are important testaments to Spanish colonization.

The crossing through the Andes between Cachi and San Pedro de Atacama is across the same unforgettable route. On the Chilean side, using Hotel de Larache as a base, guests explore the Altiplano, its volcanoes and the desert oasis Atacama, the driest of the world. From here, by horse, foot or bicycle, guests can travel immense extensions of land and mystery, where they will find remains of the past that have allowed local cultures to maintain their traditions. For thousands of years, these lands have been the crossroads of commercial routes between villages in Bolivia, Argentina and the Pacific Coast.