DINOSAURS IN BUENOS AIRES (By Hostel Buenos Aires)

The great animatronic dinosaurs exhibition which travelled round the world in 2010, is now presenting in our city. It’s an entertaining option for this Porteño summer in the complex known as La Rural (4200 Santa Fe Avenue, Palermo). Jurassic World is its name, honoring the famous Steven Spielberg movie -Jurassic Park-, which revive the interest for the first inhabitants of our planet.

To have fun and to learn -all in one- is the idea. An exhibition for the whole family but equally amusing for people of all ages, the place houses 19 robotic dinosaurs done to scale and set in places that simulate their original environment or the cages of the mythical Jurassic Park of the movie. It’s a trip that will take you 65 million years back in time, when these giants ruled the globe.

The exhibition favorite is, of course, the Tyrannosaurus Rex, 14 meters tall with defying expression. A group of Paleontology student of the University of Buenos Aires will accompany you through this imaginary trip, giving you precise information and calming the kids who are often scared of these peculiar monsters. Also for kids, there’s a special space for them to play to be paleontologists, making excavations or watching movies in a mini cinema.

Jurassic World is waiting for you from Mondays to Sundays from 11.30AM to 8PM, in the Ocher Pavilion of La Rural. The price of the tickets is 40 Argentine pesos (10 American dollars). The kids between two and four years pay only 25 pesos (almost 8 dollars). For working days there’s a special promotion for four members’s families (two young and two old) paying 100 pesos (25 dollars).