Neuquén: Another Dinosaur Land

After adequately filling ourselves up with  chocolate in Bariloche, we continued our Northward march by stopping in Neuquén to take a look at the remains of Gigantosaurus, the largest carnivorous dinosaur ever discovered, bigger even than the famous T rex. After a brief set-back where all the tour companies were closed because it was the feast of the Immaculate Conception (who knew?) and we couldn't rent a car because neither of us knows how to drive stick (can someone please teach me?!), we were able to find a driver who would take us out to see the museum with the fossils and nearby dinosaur tracks for a fairly reasonable price.

After showing us the hydroelectric dam near the museum (strangely enough the second of my trip) we entered a small, but nicely curated museum. Typically the dinosaurs you see in the museum are replicas of the fossils mounted together so you can get an idea of the size and appearance of the dinosaur all together. This museum had these replicas too, but also the actual fossils of the Gigantosaurus which was super cool! The skeleton was 80% complete when found giving you a pretty good picture of just how big this dinosaur was. The museum also had a whole room dedicated to hydroelectric dams of Argentina in case that's your thing.

A little further from the museum were some fossilized dinosaur tracks which have unfortunately been mostly warn away by the Lake created by the dam. They weren't as numerous or as clear as the ones I saw in Toro Toro in Bolivia, but as always anything dinosaur is worth a look.

From our one day stop, we boarded another bus to bring us up to wine country aka Mendoza!