In a most enjoyable journey between the Atlantic Ocean and The Andes either at museums or "in situ" we shall be witnesses of a Patagonian world showing us its striking present and past (palaeontology, archaeology, zoology and botany).

In Argentinian Patagonia we come into contact with a geological period covering some 200 million years, where gigantic animals and plants, vertebrate and invertebrate, give clear indication of the habitat of those times.

You feel the sensations of this steppe dry climate, which is in abrupt contrast with the subtropical warm-wind, swept Mesozoic conditions.

It’s been some 65 million years since the dinosaurs disappeared form this part of the continent and yet we can still find tremendous evidence of their living through an amazingly long geological period (Triassic, Jurassic and Cretacean).

In 1842 the Welsh naturalist Richard Owen gave a name (meaning reptile or alligator) to these enormous specimens, some of which walked on two strong legs but had small arms. There were a variety of birds of different sizes and features, some of which had teeth and could fly. A number of species ranging from bullfrogs to crocodiles lived amidst lush rain forests.

Of course, the view of present-day species will give us an excellent chance to observe, compare, draw conclusions and learn about the past and present of our planet.