Circuits, hotels, excursions and transfers in Cafayate.
Cafayate, at the southern end of the Calchaquí Valleys, is one of the best-known wine-growing centres of northwest Argentina, with high-altitude vineyards and an emblematic wine, torrontés. Surrounded by reddish hills and a sunny, dry climate, the town keeps a small centre with a traditional air.
In a programme it is visited from Salta along the Quebrada de las Conchas, a route of rock formations such as the Devil's Throat and the Amphitheatre, and it can be extended northwards through the Calchaquí Valleys to Cachi and its villages.
Cafayate is a destination with good weather almost all year round, with many hours of sunshine and little rain. Summer is hot and may bring storms in the gorges; the harvest, towards the end of summer and in autumn, is the liveliest time for wine tourism. In winter the days are pleasant and the nights cold.
Cafayate is suited only to small incentive groups and meetings on an intimate scale, not to congresses, given the limited hotel and meeting-room capacity and the distance from Salta airport. Its strength is the setting of wineries, vineyards and landscape, not convention infrastructure.
Credible incentive experiences include tastings and lunches at high-altitude wineries, dinners among the vineyards, the route through the Quebrada de las Conchas with panoramic stops, horse or cycling rides among the crops and Calchaquí culture in the villages of the valleys. Together they offer a wine-tourism and landscape programme with its own character.
It is reached only by road, normally from Salta (SLA), along the route that crosses the Quebrada de las Conchas; it is a long journey, of several hours with stops, and it is also possible to arrive from Tucumán via Tafí del Valle. The condition of the roads in the rainy season should be checked and transfers planned with a margin.
Plan 2 nights, and a third day if the Calchaquí Valleys towards Cachi are also to be covered. Attracts wine-tourism travellers, couples and small groups with cultural interests, and is usually included in a northwest circuit with Salta and the Quebrada de Humahuaca. Book wineries in advance in the harvest season.
Recommended stay: 2 nights (it is best not to treat it only as a day excursion).
Access by road from Salta (SLA), along the Quebrada de las Conchas route, in a day's journey with stops.
Dry, sunny climate; hot summers, cool nights in winter.
Wineries are visited with prior reservation; in summer there may be rains that affect the road.
Combines with Salta and, to the north, with the Quebrada de Humahuaca.
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