How to get there?

The best way to visit Barrancas is as an excursion from Pristine Camps. If you want to visit on your own, drive west from Purmamarca, up over the mountains and across the salt flats. On the far side of the salt flats is a road that goes north to Abdón Castro Tolay. Don’t forget to stop at the museum to get a local guide because the locations of the petroglyphs and pictographs are not marked.

Llama Caravans in Barrancas, Northern Argentina

April 10th 2023
This blog (and all my blogs) are on my website with lots more photos . Say Hueque organized my trip to Salinas Grandes and I highly recommend them for trips anywhere in Argentina! Llama caravans brought llama wool and other products to trade from Bolivia to Argentina for thousands of years. The llama caravan tradition didn’t end until 2018, making Barrancas one of the best places in Argentina t ... read more

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more

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