Sun, Sep 18
|9:00 p.m. | Start: Tilcara, Jujuy
4x4 crossing to the Yungas (mountain jungle) and the Iruya River | 5 days |
This is a very technical 4x4 crossing, which requires equipment such as Snorkel, since we will wade countless times over the Iruya River for 2 days. We will be able to witness the transition between the Puna (arid) and the Yunga (mountain jungle)
Horario y ubicación
Sep 18, 2022, 9:00 PM – Sep 24, 2022, 9:00 AM
9:00 p.m. | Start: Tilcara, Jujuy, Tilcara, Jujuy, Argentina
Acerca del evento
TIMELINE:
DAY 1 RECEPTION | Tilcara, Jujuy.
Sunday 09/18/2022
From 3:00 p.m. we are waiting for you at the hotel. Free afternoon
9 pm dinner and overnight.
DAY 2 | Tilcara - Santa Ana
Monday 09/19/2022
We leave in the morning towards Humahuaca, to later deviate to the
Cianzo Valley and ascend to the Abra de Zenta. From here the direction
South will take us over the top of the hills to a small town practically
lost on the maps, Santa Ana.
There we will have dinner and spend the night in the "Portal de las Yungas"
(a simple lodging that we hire exclusively, with rooms
adobe, tientos beds and shared bathrooms).
Portal of the Yungas
DAY 3 | Santa Ana - Oran
Tuesday 09/20/2022
Once we have shared breakfast, we will depart to the Southeast along the trail that accompanies at times, old sections of the "Inca Trail" on its descent towards the Yungas.
In this way we will go through small towns such as Valle Colorado and San Francisco entering the Calilegua National Park, which we will have to cross to access the route by which we will finally reach Orán. Accommodation and dinner at the Alto Verde Hotel.
Hotel Alto Verde
DAY 4 | Oran - Iruya River Camp
Wednesday 09/21/2022
Breakfast through, we'll take the provisions
necessary for the next camp and we will start the
on the way to Isla de Cañas. Once there we will start
go up the great Iruya River through its imposing canyon.
The landscape of the yungas dominates the entire environment and gives it a
unique beauty.
As we gain height we will pass by a couple of
small populated places, Limoncito and Matancillas, where also
there are schools where we can take some donations. These
places in a couple of months will already be isolated by the growing
of the river with the summer rains and this landscape will go from beautiful to tremendous,
but people go on with their lives only on top of the hills.
By sunset we will be arriving at the site of our camp
wild, to set up the tents, light the stove and prepare dinner
while we share a unique moment in a very special place.
DAY 5 | Iruya River Camp - Iruya
Thursday 09/22/2022
After having breakfast and breaking camp, we will begin the end of the expedition, arriving first at Angosto del Cebilar, one of the points where the river usually complicates its passage after each summer flood.
From now on, already between gigantic mountains we will be able to see the village of Isluga and then that of Volcán Higueras, next to the Nazareno tributary. In the afternoon, we will be arriving at the desired town of Iruya, located on the banks of the Coranzulí River.
We will stay and share the farewell dinner at the Hostería Iruya.
Inn Iruya
DAY 6 | Iruya – Purmamarca
Friday 09/23/2022
San Isidro
It is located about 8 km from the city of Iruya and its
350 inhabitants are distributed in 6 neighborhoods: Pueblo Viejo
(the most important), Pumayoc, La Laguna, Trihuasi, La
Palmera and La Cueva In order to get there, it is necessary to go
the river path from Iruya to the north. In said tour
you can see different landscapes of great natural beauty
including the traditional viewpoint of the Molino de los Yambis.
Hornacal viewpoint (hill of the 14 colors)
According to geologists it is a sedimentary formation
stratified by the Yacoraite formation (a colored limestone
ochre, yellow, green and whitish where the copper did not oxidize)
from the end of the Cretaceous period, 75 million years ago, when
dinosaurs lived. It is bounded by other formations
sedimentary of intense red color, which mark an impressive contrast.
Purmamarca
In Purmamarca we stayed for the night
Perhaps it is the most picturesque town in the Quebrada de Humahuaca
although geographically it belongs to another transverse ravine of the same name, surrounded
by multicolored saws. The wide Quebrada de Purmamarca resembles a great valley facing
to the Rio Grande. The cacti are typical of the ecosystem of the hills and give the region its own characteristic.
Dinner and night in Purmamarca
DAY 7 End of Services | Purmamarca
Saturday 09/24/2022
We have breakfast and return home.
End of services.