- Address: Valle de Ischigualasto, 5400, San Juan Province, Argentina
- Tel .: +54 9 264 460-8900
- Website: ischigualasto.gob.ar
- Year of foundation: 2004
- Area: 603.7 sq. M. km
- Working hours: daily 8: 00-17: 00
To see the real lunar valley in Argentina is quite feasible if you visit the provincial natural park of Ischigualasto. Located on the territory of 603 square meters. km, this phenomenon annually attracts thousands of tourists from all over the world, because there is something to see.
What is interesting in the Park Ischigualasto?
What can be exciting in the desert, even if it's Argentine? But, despite all doubts, people come here in the hope of receiving unique impressions, and they will certainly find them, because the UNESCO protected natural park really has its own highlights:
- Surrounded by majestic sheer cliffs of red sandstone, the park looks particularly advantageous in the moonlight. It's not for nothing that the photos of the so-called lunar valley are familiar even to those who have not even heard of it. It is called so with the light hand of local Indian tribes, who lived here once. Valle de la Luna, otherwise known as Ischigualasto, has an amazing landscape, very reminiscent of the surface of the Moon.
- Especially interested travelers is a playground with balls, or rather, stones that seem to grow out of sand. They are scattered over a fairly large area, and each year they are not absorbed by sand, but on the contrary - they grow out of it. The diameter of each such "ball" is from 50 to 70 cm.
- In addition to the balls, interesting and unusual rock structures. It seems that some giant played with stones, stacking them on each other, and then forgot about his game. Ischigualasto in Argentina is replete with such miraculous miracles, for the sake of photos against which tourists come to this arid region from afar. By the way, the weather here, as in any desert, is not merciful to people and the animal world. At night, the temperature drops below 10 ° C, and in the daytime it reaches its peak at 45 ° C in the sun. Rains are extremely rare. All the time a strong wind blows from 20 to 40 m / sec.
- Archaeologists, paleontologists and simply people who are not indifferent to the excavations are looking for something new here, for it was here that the remains of all kinds of dinosaurs and lizards from the far Triassic period were found. Not everyone even heard of such. This herrosaur, ichizaurus, eraptor - more than 50 species.
Where is the Moon Valley?
You can get to the amazing space desert from the capital of Argentina by direct flight to San Juan . There you can rent a car or go on a tour by taxi. The journey takes no more than 45 minutes. Before the trip, you should take care of the right shoes and clothes, protecting from daytime heat and night cold, and also about the food.