Mendoza 1st to 4th May

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Mendoza can only be summed up by one word - Vino! And we had alot of it! Being the capital of the Argentinian wine district we expected nothing less! Although it was just our luck that the mountain pass between Chile and Argentina was closed for two days due to unseasonally high snowfall. Sigh. And then we showed up on May 1st (Labour day) - a national holiday in Argentina (so nothing was open)! Sigh sigh. But we still managed to go on a few tours of the wineries whilst we were there.

Hmm ... Vino
We took two kinds of tours of Argentinian wine (not including the "private tastings" we bought from the local supermarket in the evening); one was by bus and the other was on bicycles. The latter was about ten times more dangerous but also about twenty times as good; far more wineries (not to mention better quality) and also a higher standard of guided tours. We actually left Mendoza feeling like we knew what we were doing when we were tasting wine!

Cycling under the influence.

Heck of alot of wine!

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