4-Day Salta Tour: Wine, Ruins & Seven Colors Hill

Quebrada de Humahuaca is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and you walk through it in a single day.

A 4-day tour from Buenos Aires to Salta, Argentina, combining a free day exploring the colonial city with two guided days through Northwest Argentina's most famous landscapes: wine country in Cafayate and the Quebrada de Humahuaca valley. Includes round-trip flights, 3 nights in a 3-star hotel with breakfast, professional guide, and all transport by air-conditioned coach. A live guide speaks English or Spanish. You pick your hotel tier at checkout.

Step-by-step itinerary

Day 1: Arrival in Salta

• Transfer from airport to hotel

Day 2: Wine tasting in Cafayate

• Pick up at hotel and drive Lerma Valley
• Visit winery and wine tasting
• Lunch and explore Cafayate
• Return to Salta via Las Conchas Gorge
• Stop at Posta de las Cabras
• Drop off at hotel

Day 3: Quebrada de Humahuaca tour

• Depart hotel to Humahuaca
• Visit Purmamarca and Seven Colors Hill
• Visit Tilcara Archaeological Museum and Pucará
• Stop at Huacalera and view Pollera de la Colla
• Arrive Humahuaca, visit Cathedral and Monument
• Lunch and tour Humahuaca village
• Return via Paleta del Pintor route
• Return to hotel

Day 4: Departure

• Transfer from hotel to airport

The experience

The tour starts with a 2-hour flight from Buenos Aires to Salta, where you settle into your hotel and have a full day to wander the colonial city on your own: its plazas, churches and markets are built around the architecture that made Salta distinctive. The next morning, a guide picks you up for the drive south through the Lerma Valley toward Cafayate, passing tobacco plantations and small towns. In Cafayate itself, you visit a winery where a sommelier leads the tasting and explains the vineyard's particulars, then you have time to eat and explore the village markets. The return journey follows Las Conchas Gorge, with a stop at Posta de las Cabras, a goat cheese producer, before dropping you back at the hotel.

Day three departs at 7:00am for the Quebrada de Humahuaca, a full-day loop through villages and landmarks. You start in Purmamarca to see the Cerro de los Siete Colores (Seven Colors Hill) and visit the church and artisan market, then move on to Tilcara to tour the Archeological Museum and the Pucará, indigenous ruins built on a hilltop. The route continues through Huacalera at the Tropic of Capricorn, then into Humahuaca itself, where you see the Cathedral and the Monument to Independence before lunch. On the return, you pass the Paleta del Pintor rock formation near Maimará, arriving back at the hotel around 8:00pm.

Your final morning is a transfer from the hotel to the airport for the flight back to Buenos Aires. The package covers all flights, 3 nights in a 3-star hotel with breakfast included, the guide throughout the two touring days, and all transport by coach. Each traveler can bring one suitcase (33 lb maximum) and one carry-on bag. Oversized luggage may have restrictions, so confirm with the operator before travel. You'll need your passport details at booking, and the operator notes that rates don't apply to special dates like Christmas, New Year's Eve, Carnival, Easter, or national holidays.

What’s included

• Round-trip flights from Buenos Aires to Salta.
• 3 nights in a 3-star hotel with breakfast (or 4-star if you choose that option at checkout).
• professional guide in English or Spanish.
• all transport by air-conditioned coach from the airport to hotels and on both touring days.
• sommelier-guided wine tasting at a Cafayate winery.
• entry to the Pucará archeological site in Tilcara and its museum.

Options for this experience

2 options

3-Star HotelGuide in English or Spanish · No fixed timeThe package covers 3 nights in 3-star lodging, breakfast included. Includes pickup.

4-Star HotelGuide in English or Spanish · No fixed timeThe package covers 3 nights in 4-star lodging, breakfast included. Includes pickup.

You pick the guide language when booking.

You'll see the exact price of each option when you check availability.See dates and prices

Before you book

Days and timesEvery day

AgesAdult (2 and older) · Infant (under 2): free

GroupUp to 3

Live guideEnglish and Spanish

Meeting point and pickupHotel pickup included.You can choose from 2 pickup points.

Cancellation and refundsNo refund if you cancel.

Good to know

Low physical effort

Operated by Tangol

Is this one for you?The 4-day length gives you a full free day in Salta itself plus two complete touring days through wine country and the Quebrada: enough time to see the major landmarks without rushing, but short enough to fit into a longer Argentina trip. If you want just the Cafayate wine region or just the Humahuaca valley, a 2-day version exists. This one combines both.

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Top questions

What languages is the tour guided in?

Live guide in English and Spanish.

Can children come?

Yes. Ticket types: Infant (under 2): free.

What exactly is the Cerro de los Siete Colores in Purmamarca?

The Cerro de los Siete Colores (Seven Colors Hill) is a striped mountain formation near the town of Purmamarca in the Quebrada de Humahuaca. Its layers of mineral deposits create bands of different colors (red, orange, yellow, green and purple among them), and you see it during the day-three tour through the valley.

Do I need to arrange my own flights from Buenos Aires to Salta?

No. Round-trip flights from Buenos Aires to Salta are included in the package, so you don't book them separately. The flights take about 2 hours each way.

What happens on my first day in Salta?

Your first day is free. After the morning flight and transfer to your hotel, you have the rest of the day to explore Salta's colonial architecture, plazas, churches and markets on your own pace. The guided tours begin the following morning.

Is lunch included in the Cafayate wine tour?

You have time for lunch in Cafayate during the wine tour day, but you arrange and pay for it yourself. The winery tasting is guided by a sommelier and included.

What's the difference between the 3-star and 4-star hotel options?

Both options include 3 nights with breakfast, but the 4-star hotel offers higher-end accommodation than the 3-star. You choose which tier you prefer at checkout. The rest of the tour (flights, guide, transport and itinerary) remains the same.

How long is the Humahuaca day and what time do we return?

The Quebrada de Humahuaca tour departs at 7:00am and returns to your hotel around 8:00pm, covering multiple villages, ruins and viewpoints in a single full day through the UNESCO World Heritage valley.