Salta | Excursion to Quebrada de Humahuaca
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Discover charming Andean villages and follow the traces of the antique Inca road. Driving north you find the long and narrow Quebrada de Humahuaca (canyon) and its artistic palette of colour splashed on barren hillsides where Quechua peasants scratch a living from irrigated agriculture and scrawny livestock. On the western hillside of the canyon, the village Purmamarca shines with its polychrome “Cerro de los Siete Colores” (Hill of the Seven Colours). With no doubt, the village of Purmamarca is the most remarkable in this area with the chapel under the avocation of Santa Rosa de Lima and its melancholic aspect due to the native style of building with mud. Further north, at an elevation of 2,461m in a side valley, Tilcara features a classic Andean Pucará (a fortification). From there, you enjoy views of the Quebrada de Humahuaca in several directions. Nearly 3000m above sea level, Humahuaca is the largest settlement between Jujuy and the Bolivian border with a large Quechua Indian population and a very interesting craft market. During the entire excursion, the landscape is so colourful that it will remain in your mind forever. |
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