After our city break in San Juan we went back on the desert road to drive down to San Luis via the Sierras de Quijadas national park. More rocks but different and less developed for tourism than Talampaya. We decided not to descend into the canyons to look for the dinosaur footprints but walked to various miradors and admired the views before going to San Luis. This provincial capital doesn't get much of a write up in our guidebooks but it has some nice buildings and a helpful tourist office with good maps and guides to the city and province and as ever everyone is really friendly. After watching Hellboy in the hotel we wandered out for dinner at about 10.30pm and were still early, though the restaurant we were in had a queue by 11.30.
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