4-Day Tour in San Juan: Valley of the Moon & Talampaya Canyon

You will be transferred from the airport/bus terminal to the Hotel and you will have the rest of the free to spend at your leisure.

We will leave from your hotel in San Juan from 7 AM and we will travel on National Tourist Route 150 to reach the Ischigualasto Park, or "Valley of the Moon". Together with park guides and in our vehicles we will travel 4 hours of the internal circuit. 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. 

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. We will return to the city of San Juan in the evening hours.

We will leave from our selected hotels in the city of San Juan at approximately 7 AM. We will start the tour going north of the province through the famous Route 40, crossing the San Juan River and taking Tourist Route 150 at the height of the town of Albardón. We will continue until we reach the limit of San Juan with La Rioja, and then we will take Route 76 to the Talampaya National Park.

Here, we will continue our journey by having a 4x4 experience to see both Talampaya Canyon and Shimpa Canyon. We will realize small walks to interact with this impressive place, in 5 different stations: Petroglyphs, the Botanical Garden, the Gothic Cathedral, the Monk and the Shimpa Canyon. This excursion is done in special 4x4 with all comfort and large windows to not miss any detail. It lasts 4 hours and a catering service is also included in a spectacular setting, so you will taste traditional products of the region. We will return to the city of San Juan to which we will arrive at approximately 9 PM.

You will be transferred to the airport/bus terminal. This is the end of the services.