Hotels in Salta

Salta is a beautiful town. We spent only two days within the city, but what makes the trip richer is the cities we spent the other days. You may take tours that visit those other places (like Cachi, Purmamarca, Salinas Grandes etc). We took one tour (Cachi) and then we rent a car and spent the other days in Tilcara, visiting Purmamarca, Humahuaca, Tilcara itself and Salinas Grandes. In our way back to Salta we passed through San Antônio de los Cobres. After that, we also went to Cafayate. In the region of Salta and Jujuy each travel was an attraction itself because the view of the roads is really beautiful, so it was really enjoyable. In Salta we visited the cerro San Bernardo. You may get up/down on foot, by taking some stairs which took us about 30-40 min to go up and 15-20 min to go down, it depends on how is your physical condition, or by chair lift, which costs ARG$ 55 eahc way and takes about 5 min. Up in the cerro You can appreciate the view of the city. The chair lift starts in the city park (San Martin), so You can visit both places in one day. You can also walk in the central plaza, which is pleasant and has a lot of restaurants. There are a lot of museums, but we visited only one (MAAM, which is at central plaza, well structured, does not take too long and is famous for preserving 500 year-old mummified children and it introduces you to the rich Inca cultura.

In terms of tours agency, we had a great experience with "Salta Rafting". They are very competent, totally recommend it. They have all the adrenaline tours we were looking for: rafting (obviously heheh), mountain biking, quads, zip lining, and also include the common tours to Humauhuaca, Cafayete and El Chaqui. Great agency. Food wise we had a couple of bad experiences, the restaurants can be quite expensive for such a dirty place and mediocre food... The attention is generally good. We try as much as possible to go to the local places and have the local food... but it didn`t turn out much satisfactory this time, anyways, the best meal we had was in a "Bixi Coffee House", clean, newly refurbished and the food was very tasty, although it isn`t much different from any other coffee place we can find in any other place, but it was safe choice and delicious. It worth the visit :) Salta is very easy to get around, a pair of flip flops and you are ready to go.

Interesting museums around central Plaza 9 de Julio, especially Museo de Arquelogia, featuring the Inca culture. Another museum we found interesting, and quite likely missed by many tourists was Museo Pte Jose e ? in an original family house , with some original furniture and added artifacts, typical of last century, located in Caseros street . Train to the Clouds was not running until April which was disappointing, so we hired a driver and 4 X4 for a day trip to explore the stunning quebrada landscape, visiting Purmamaca, Tilcara and Humahuaca villages. Most villages were very touristy, but well worth a walk around the narrow earthen streets, with the ever present magnificent multicolored strata of the surrounding gorges. The driver had limited English but was enthusiastic and familiar with the famous Route 9, money well spent, rather than taking a tour. Good restaurant to eat at in Salta was El Solar del Convento, Dir. Caseros 444

If Salta was not the departing point for tours to the Andean area, it would not be worth a visit. The historic city center is very small, the rest of the city is common or even shabby. There are no attractions there that deserve to be visited. The famous MAAM museum consists of one room of maybe 50 square meters with some pictures, tons of written texts and one mummy. One is faster out than in.

We loved this place and did 2 fantastic day tours to the humahuaca gorge and salt flats and also cafayate. Absolutely great value for money and stunning scenery. Don't miss this place! The museums are also excellent, particularly the one with the mummies.

Salta is a delightful town, with many facilities.`The museums are good, although very sadly the private Pajcha museum was closed for the holidays. Buzzing square with lots of activity. Good food and bars. We used Avis for our car hire, and they were excellent. Salta makes an excellent staging post for exploration of the north, with its handy airport and facilities.