North-West Argentina 2025

Photography high adventure tour

NEXT TRIP - 2 - 14 Feb 2025

Capture the amazing landscapes and colours of the high dessert of “La Puna”.  Experience the salt flats, volcanoes, sand dunes, The Pumice Stone field, & wildlife of Argentina’s North West. Wind down the experience with Argentina’s famous Malbec from the wine region of ‘Cafayate’.

This cultural and landscape photography tour will also reveal the Colonial, Inca and Indigenous cultures of Argentina. Travel with local English-speaking guides. Silvi Glattauer is Argentinian born and speaks fluent Spanish

Experience 4WD driving into remote high altitude regions of ‘La Puna’ - (Up to 5,200 meters above sea level), with stunning landscapes, but then also enjoy more relaxed historic townships, artisans, and wine estates.The photographic opportunities are abundant with designated highlights chosen by Silvi but plenty of opportunities to also shoot at your own pace. Show, edit and discuss your photos along the way.

8 participant Max
We will have 3 x 4WD vehicles.  Beautiful accommodation - twin share

Price $5,500 USD
Includes: twin share accommodation, picnic lunches, dinners (with wine). Cost excludes flights and travel insurance.

This tour will commence and end in Salta, a 2 hour flight from Buenos Aires.

Download the 2023 itinerary here as a sample

A 6 minute video that resulted from a wonderful tour we took of the La Puna region of North West Argentina - April 2023.

View images from 2018/2019 trip - Instagram  -#lapunaconsilvi.

Some comments from previous participants:

Marianne Cool:

Unforgettable, never seen anything like it. 

Trip of a lifetime

Amazing landscapes, fabulous tour leader & guides, and wonderful group of fellow-travellers

This takes ‘remote’ and ‘big sky country’ to another level

loved every minute of it

Ollie Tabatha:

More than just a trip or a holiday but an unforgettable experience. An experience that makes you quiet, makes you think and leaves you with a sense of wonderment - about the size of the world questioning your place in it all. Very very special.

The wine was amazing, some of the best I have ever had.

I will never forget seeing Condors in the wild. I will never know if it was a puma or fox I saw running up the hill. I now can tell the difference between a Lama and a Vicuna. I do need to brush up on my flamingo stalking skills. The wildlife was an added unexpected bonus to the majestic landscape.

Best trip I have done in decades. Remote but still super comfortable. The thoughts and ideas will stay with me for life.

Shoshanna Jordan:

Taking part in the April 2018 La Puna Argentina tour was exhilarating and challenging  in all senses and areas of functioning as a photographer and human being.

The group of 8 in three 4 wheel drives with excellent guides as drivers, allowed for imparting knowledge, understanding of land and people to expose us to the rich tapestry that is the area we traversed. The flexibility and understanding of the photographic process, the individuality of the participants meant that we were all satisfied. Silvi’s leadership in coming from Argentina, the language and culture and her par excellence of the photographic process and practice contributed continuously to the success and growth of each participant.

Hugh Sweatman:

The journey into La Puna took us into landscapes such as we had never seen: huge windswept vistas including snow-streaked volcanos, salt flats like frozen seas, vast brown hills dusted with millions of tussocks of yellow grass, mountainous dunes of pale sand, the most ornately eroded mountainsides in every contrasting shade of purple, pink, brown yellow and white, kilometres of huge wind-shaped pumice blocks the size of houses, all this punctuated with dark jagged lava flows and perfect volcanic cones.    Outside of La Puna, the eroded mountains near Purmamarca and Cafayate were nearly as spectacular, and the valleys were full of people, farms, vineyards and colonial towns, adding many other layers of interest.  All in all it was an intense, fascinating and stimulating experience of the landscape and a little of the culture of north west Argentina.  All three guides were extremely competent, very friendly and knowledgeable about many things, and all this visual stimulation was combined with Silvi’s photographic knowledge and gentle guidance