Fertile Valley and Moon Valley (Provincial Park of Ischigualasto)
Breakfast at the Hotel. Whole day trip to Fertile Valley and Moon Valley. Ischigualasto is an enormous paleontology deposit from the triassic period of the mesozoic era (about 250 million years). Because of the relief’s morphology it is best known as the Moon Valley. Nature acted for years over the stones from the place, modeling huge natural sculptures, as a result of wind, rain and temperature erosion. The massifs were first eroded on their thinest layers, creating this way odd shapes. As an example, El Submarino, has one of the most popular shapes of the Park.

Talampaya’s Canyon
Breakfast at the Hotel. Whole day trip to Talampaya’s Canyon. It has been declared World Heritage by UNESCO. Talampaya, is a complete sample of on of the less represented native ecosystems in the National System of Protected Natural Areas: the forest.

Along the Canyon of the Talampaya River, there are ancient carob woods, framed between large thick walls, almost 100 meters tall, that make the place unique. A thirteen meters long mural full of petroglifos, perhaps the biggest ever known, together with other ones on the place, represent a cultural heritage of an enormous value that should be protected forever, so as future generations may see them.

We can find in the area sedimentary deposits from the Permian period and the Triassic period plentiful of fossils, specially of great amphibians and reptiles.