Cueva de las Manos, Argentina The Cave of Hands was definitely a highlight in Argentina. The name sp

Cueva de las Manos, Argentina

The Cave of Hands was definitely a highlight in Argentina. The name speaks for itself but it is essentially a lot of negative prints of hands in a series of caves stretching for 100s of meters. There are also painted scenes of hunting and various other depictions. Each set of hands and animals tells a story, they were drawn by the hunter-gatherer communities 13,000 - 9,000 years ago. We were absolutely blown away by how old these painting were and one of them has 6 fingers!

I also had to add the dinosaur footprint we found and the view from one of our campsites. The world’s largest dinosaur (a herbivore) and the largest carnivore were both found in northwest Argentina. The largest dinosaur was about 40 metres long and 20 metres tall and weighed 77 tonnes! That’s about 14 african elephants…WOW! The picture of the footprint is not the same dinosaur but it is still at least 240 millions old! We loved trying to imagine the dinosaur running through mud and creating the footprint right in front of us. Crazy!