Ischigualasto Park Tour: UNESCO World Heritage Site with Unique Geological Formations
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Province of San Juan
Explore the Ischigualasto Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with unique geological formations. Discover the astonishing geoforms and ancient dinosaur remains in this unconventional destination.
Duration: 13 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Province of San Juan - We will leave from the selected hotels in San Juan from 7 Hrs, and we will travel on National Tourist Route 150 to reach the Ischigualasto Park, or “Valley of the Moon”.
  • Parque Provincial Ischigualasto - The circuit covers about 40 km and has 5 stations, where the most important geoforms are visited, receiving the explanation and interpretation of them by the guides, whose assistance is essential to interpret the signs that nature has left here over more than two hundred million years.

The stations are: The Worm (El Gusano), The Painted Valley (Valle Pintado), The Bowls Court (Cancha de Bochas), The Sphinx (La Esfinge), The Submarine (El Submarino) and The Mushroom (El Hongo)

  • Parque Provincial Ischigualasto - At the end of the tour, we will visit the Interpretation Center and Museum of Natural Sciences, installed at the entrance to the Park. There are exhibited parts of the paleontological pieces found on the site and its importance is exposed. We will also receive the explanation of the guides about how research, tracking, fossil recovery, and dinosaur assembly are developed.
  • San Juan - Return to the city of San Juan in the evening hours.
What's Included
  • Professional guide
  • Full Day Experience
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off (centrally located hotels only)
What's Not Included
  • National entrance fee
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

You cannot miss the visit to the Ischigualasto Park ‘Valle De La Luna’, a unique destination and outside the conventional itineraries, which surprises with its formations and unusual soil characteristics. The astonishment for the place and the richness that it contains for the study of the archaeological and paleontological sites of the area caused that UNESCO declared World Heritage Site. Its geoforms of curious forms (The Submarine, The Mushroom, the Bocce Court) and the remains of the oldest dinosaur are some of the attractions of this site, which is also known as ‘Valle de la Luna’.

  • Entrance Park Fee not included.
Location
Province of San Juan
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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372irmal
Apr 13, 2024
Safety pin!! - Safety pin!!! Beautiful place!! A very nice experience. Beautiful tour, a guide explains very well on each descent. General admission 10,000. Retirees 3,000. There is a restaurant "Los Rastros" where you can have a drink or lunch at affordable prices. Bathrooms in the restaurant or outside, very clean. There are stalls with crafts for sale.
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Jorynicoa
Mar 26, 2024
Visit to the provincial park - Excellent 4-hour excursion visiting all the figures in the park, just keep in mind that you have to go by car because it is done only by car in a caravan with the guides and you visit the most notable points of the park… beautiful unique place
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Q1811fldanielap
Oct 6, 2023
Obligatory and typical stop in San Juan - Needless to say, if you visit San Juan you have to stop by and see what they taught us in school as kids. The road to Ischigualasto can be done perfectly alone, until you reach the entrance where you currently pay (October 2023 $3,500 per person) and wait for the caravan of cars to leave. They leave approximately every hour. If you have to wait or at the end of the tour, you can visit the museum, which is free, and use the bathrooms. Quite the opposite of what happens on the Talampaya side (which I am going to detail in that topic)
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Goplaces54712761781
Aug 29, 2023
A place we should all go at some point in our lives. - An incredible place, a wonder of humanity. Where the oldest dinosaur in the world was found and where we can find evidence of evolution on earth in a few kilometers.
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Daydream16007656997
Aug 25, 2023
Nice tour - We had a great guide who was really very nice and helpful . We liked the tour although long way to drive . But price for English tour little too expensive
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Solange_z771
Jan 25, 2023
"230 million years on the make" - During the stops, the Park Ranger gives the history behind the geological formation. It's a beautiful landscape, where sometimes makes you wonder if you're on planet Earth.
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