Day: October 10, 2025

Breakfast this morning was one of the best breakfasts we have had. We went to a coffee shop called Edesia. The food was fabulous and we shared a pitcher of fresh squeezed orange juice.

Inflation in Argentina is 30% right now.. a lot of restaurants use stickers on the menu for prices because prices change so frequently.

After breakfast we went to the grocery store. We got water and wine and nuts and crackers.

Next we went to a private archaeological museum, everything in the museum was collected in this area by a local engineer between 1960 and 2001. It was quite an amazing museum.

Then we went for a drive east of San José through some beautiful canyons to an old mill.

Today we visited two National Parks. The first which is about 20 miles south of Villa Unión is Talampaya National Park. Even though we had done research ahead of time we were surprised to learn that we would have to take a guided bus tour to enter the park, it would cost us $70 each and the next tour wasn’t until midafternoon. We decided to pass. At the park headquarters we were able to do a short nature walk and we saw two mara’s.

This area has a lot of dinosaur fossils. Duke tried to catch one of the dinosaurs.

We drove farther south to another park entrance. To enter there and do the tour would have cast us $50 each. So again we did the nature trail. We saw a guanaco.

Next we went to Ischigualasto National Park. Since we didn’t want to do the guided 40 mile loop drive we visited the Dr. William Sill museum at the headquarters.

From the park we drove west to San Juan de Jachál, where we will spend Thursday and Friday nights.

We drove a curvy scenic road and then through lots of flat desert to get to San Juan.