Ischigualasto Provincial Park is located in the northwestern part of Argentina, in the province of San Juan, and is one of the few places in the country classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The park is a huge open-air paleontological museum with an area of more than 600 km². Scientists consider this place the most complete collection of fossils from the Triassic period of the planet's development, which was more than 200 million years ago. On the territory of Ischigualasto, skeletons of dinosaurs were discovered, as well as fossilized evidence of plant life on Earth from that distant era.
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| Ischigualasto San Juan Argentina |
Tourists are attracted to Ischigualasto Park not only by prehistoric reptiles but also by surreal landscapes. The indigenous people dubbed the region "Moon Valley" (Valle de la Luna), which can only be called partly true, because the landscape here is formed by fantastically shaped and reddish cliffs, which at sunset begin to glow with numerous shades of scarlet, taking visitors on an extremely realistic Martian journey.