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Excursión a Cerro Colorado, donde el arte plasmado en las rocas, nos devela su mística.

Excursión a la iglesia Nuestra Señora de La Candelaria, Patrimonio Cultural de la Humanidad.

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3- Horse Ride and Photographic Safari to Antique Gold Mines

This is an opportunity to cross rivers and mountains on horseback, seeing waterfalls and getting in touch with indigenous traditions, like the Spanish settlers did when they arrived here searching for gold.

The trip begins in Estancia Puesto Viejo and takes us in a 2-day round trip through wild grasslands and lonely mountains, where nature has been kept intact, to Estancia Oro Grueso. There, its very owner, Pepe Pascual, who descends from those Spanish settlers, will receive us for dinner and the night.

Nearby La Candelaria Jesuit farming estate, located upon the Candelaria River with its beautiful rapids and waterfalls, there are the old gold mines.

The mine tunnels can be visited to appreciate the enormous work of those who bore through its rocks in the 1850s.

La Candelaria Jesutic Farming Estates

Hidden is in a vast, tranquil place with varied native wildlife is this estate awaiting to be discovered. This impressive former Jesuit farming estate is located in an isolated spot where landscape offers high plains, hills, and valleys cut through by magnificent rivers. In the past, it was a highly productive cattle-raising establishment with abundant cows, sheep, and mules scattered throughout its 300,00 hectares and 15 posts. Puesto Viejo, our departing place, was one of them.

The building simple but baroque style reminds of colonial times and carries the imprint of the Jesuit missioners, who committed their strengths to organize and consolidate it in 1683. As it depended in Indian workforce, indigenous influences are traceable in wooden religious sculptures, painted with dyes extracted from the nature.

1Day Excursion (2 days optional)

2- Trip to a Jesuitic Farming Estate, a World Heritage Site (UNESCO), on horse or in SUVs 4x4:

Estancia Puesto Viejo is inserted in a natural scenery that extends all around, surrounded by a countryside landscape with high plains, clear streams, and rugged ranges. Like other ranches, it has an indigenous history, a colonial past, and rural gaucho habits.

Strolling on foot or on horse over the 775-hectare private natural reserve is living in the present but re-valuing the past through interesting native traditions.

If you join us, you will learn and take active part in country tasks, including herding, branding, and various gaucho skills still alive in this place.

2 Days Excursions ( 3 or 4 days optional )

Love for these lands and a wish to show them as they are to strangers led a small team of guides to design these unconventional trips.

1- Horse Rides, Trekking, and a True Farm Experience in Estancia Puesto Viejo

Learn and share our simple life-style in equilibrium with nature, the opposite of big cities.

Small sculpture created by the Indians under the supervision of the Jesuit priests, gilded with gold from the mines

You can combine the three excursions into one– 2 horse rides in 3 or 5 days, sleeping comfortably in posts or tents !

1- Trip In Motor Vehicle and Walks Across the Country to admire hundreds of wonderful cave paintings in the Cerro Colorado Natural and Cultural Reserve

In the mild red-soiled mountains that rise above the greens of the native wildlife, there is one of the major archeological sites in our country.

In Cerro Colorado, the indigenous peoples left their view of the European Conquest in amazing cave paintings that show scenes of slavery or of the Spanish conquerors on horse holding up their banners. They also portrait the Indians’ everyday life and the hunting of animals that are now extinct.

Thousands of pictographies printed on building eaves and stone walls make up this heritage site of great significance for our country. Today, it is a Natural and Cultural Reserve as declared by the provincial government and is waiting to be declared World Heritage Site by the UNESCO.

Crossing vast landscapes, such as Pampa de Achala or Pampa de Olaen, we access large private farming estates where adventure is an inherent part of everyday life.
On foot, on horseback, or by motor vehicle, we travel through mountain fields getting to in contact with local people, their food, and their customs and admiring majestic sights.