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Iruya
A village worth the road · Iruya, Argentina
Photo: Havardtl · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
4.7★Rating
2,540Reviews
$Price level
Apr–NovBest time
The experience
A stone-and-adobe village clinging to a mountainside at 2,780 m in remote northern Salta, reached by a winding dirt road over a 4,000 m pass — Argentine press ranked it among the world's 50 most beautiful towns.
Exactly one road in — a 3-hour cornice track from Humahuaca — so it survives on word-of-mouth.
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It's only worth the detour Apr–Nov. Turn up outside that window and you're looking at a different place; we'd rather say so than sell you the photo.
Where it is
Iruya, Argentina · Salta Province. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
DirectionsWhat a membership adds.
Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.
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