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La Rioja is a small provincial town, 6 hours by bus from Córdoba or Mendoza, or 14 hours from Buenos Aires, which is used as the base for visiting Ischigualasto and Talampaya parks.

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The city of La Rioja serves as a place to stop off at on your trip to Argentina but is not particularly interesting in itself. The liveliest part of the city is the area between the "9 de Julio" and "25 de Mayo" squares, both of which are surrounded by tourist restaurants, shopping streets and various churches. The shops close and the streets empty of people in the afternoon however, during the hours of siesta. I stopped at La Rioja for a break on my way from Salta to Mendoza. The tourist office here, by the bus station, has lots of information about all the accommodation options available in the city and the organised tours available to sites in the local area. Not really wanting to go on a tour myself, I decided instead to visit Sanagasta, a little village a half-hour bus ride from La Rioja. From there I was taken to the dinosaur park, a tourist attraction located at a site where intact dinosaur eggs covered in a layer of ash have been discovered. This is an interesting place to visit for geology and palaeontology enthusiasts, and for children and young people too.

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