Step into the wild
An overview of the scope of our vision
About Us
THE SOCOMPA PROJECT
One day,
two years of adventure,
20 years of passion.
After two years spent climbing Volcanoes and getting to know the Region, including Atacama and South of Bolivia, in 2004 I founded Socompa: a website, one 4×4, myself and a lot of passion.
LIFESTYLE CHANGE
Socompa, our company, was born as a joke in 2004.
I was looking for an experience abroad, far away from home (Italy). I was on an important personal quest, looking for meaning in life, I wanted to travel alone and to the other side of the world.
I had a photo of a 4×4 pick-up that I had taken in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, some years before. I looked at it and wondered how wonderful it would be to have one of my own, almost as if the pick-up was a kind of vehicle for a free life… the passage to the transformation I was looking for.
Around 2002, I took a three-month holiday and decided to come to Salta to see the high desert of the Central Andes, a unique region in Argentina called Puna. And what happened… I fell in love.
In 2004 I founded Socompa Adventure Travel: a website, a 4×4, myself and a lot of passion.
We are pioneers in adventure travel to the Argentinean Puna and after more than 18 years, Socompa has become a leading company in private travel in the Argentinean Northwest, with the best team of guides in the region.
“A little more than 18 years have passed and Socompa has changed my life, giving me a wife, Valentina – the real architect of it all – a family, new friends, a job… a life just as I dreamed it would be”.
Fabrizio
Our Home
As we love to manage our trips directly, we have expanded the Socompa family. We converted our house, in the outskirts of Salta City, into a small Hotel Casa de Campo, one of my wife’s many worlds, Finca Valentina.
The craziest project.
Then, we started to manage the Hostería de Altura El Peñón, Catamarca, located 500 km from Salta, in an oasis at 3400 m.a.s.l., inhabited by 400 people, in front of one of the most impressive and beautiful places in the world: the Campo de Piedra Pómez.
Socompa Lab
With the purpose of sharing experiences and knowledge about quality, safety and sustainability applied to adventure travel, we created SocompaLab, our consulting and training area. It has been a very rewarding experience that, so far, has led to the training of more than 500 guides and tourism professionals, among others.
Today, Socompa is part of the lives of some 60 people, all Argentines, all with one thing in common, a passion for this region and the fortune of having one of the most rewarding jobs: making the dreams of travellers from all over the world come true.
We are waiting for you.
Fabrizio and Valentina
After climbing volcanoes and mountains, exploring, finding and meeting, he set out to create something he couldn’t find in the travel market: a collection of adventure itineraries in the Argentine Puna, customised, unique for the traveller, important for the local people and sustainable for the environment. Socompa Adventure Travel is the end result of two years of full-time travel in search of new experiences… new adventures.
TRANSFORMING ADVENTURES
Who we are, our values, our proposal.
At Socompa, we offer the opportunity to experience transformative and transcendental moments in remote and solitary places. We design and organise tailor-made trips of high complexity in Northern Argentina, especially in the Puna. Our experiences include private trips in 4×4 vehicles led by excellent local guides.
PASSION
It is the primary ingredient and driving force for exceptional, genuine and valuable work.
INSPIRATION
We are expert travel lovers and we organise memorable experiences. We show and communicate what we really travel.
CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION
We value innovation and understand the importance of being up to date and in constant transformation in order to provide the best service, highlighting the incorporation of technology, efficient processes and attention to detail.
PASSION
It is the primary ingredient and driving force for exceptional, genuine and valuable work.
INSPIRATION
We are expert travel lovers and we organise memorable experiences. We show and communicate what we really travel.
CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION
We value innovation and understand the importance of being up to date and in constant transformation in order to provide the best service, highlighting the incorporation of technology, efficient processes and attention to detail.
SYNERGY
We offer high quality services and are consistent in our actions. We respect what we promise and are dedicated to the customer, putting ourselves in their shoes to provide the best experience and the best solution.
TRUST
We offer highly complex trips, which is why our main focus is on logistics, operations and safety. Our expert team of guides are the pillars for the Socompa experience to be carried out with the highest safety standards.
TRAVELLING DIFFERENTLY - A TRANSFORMATIVE ADVENTURE
Unique journeys to popular and remote destinations, creating a transformative experience for inner reconnection. Traveling with Socompa is the ultimate adventure.
SYNERGY
We offer high quality services and are consistent in our actions. We respect what we promise and are dedicated to the customer, putting ourselves in their shoes to provide the best experience and the best solution.
SUSTAINABLE ADVENTURE
As we embark on a challenging new path, we know that we are also embarking on the adventure of learning, and of contributing to a sustainable and bright future.
MEET US
Our team
Socompa is a company made by people. It is an operational office that is attentive to every detail during the entire process of design, creation, development and management of your trip. We accompany you throughout the whole process, up to the last second, 24/7.
Nothing would be possible without our great team of Adventure Travel Guides. We have a great team of passionate professionals who are more than capable of leading you with the highest standards of quality and safety.
