Blogs from Mendoza, Mendoza, Argentina, South America - page 63

Mendoza is a lovely town. Most of the world only knows of it because of its wines, but it's a good place to visit for plenty of other reasons. With a week or so here you could head into the mountains for walking, rafting and mountain biking. With a bit more time you could try and climb Aconcagua, South America's highest point. That's actually quite a hardcore mountaineering expedition, which the owner of our favourite hostel in Alaska did a few years ago - he's from Mendoza and his pride in his hometown is the reason we're here. We gave activities a miss today and explored the streets, parks and cafes. We also finished off gathering our Christmas presents for shipping back home. That's a bit of a story in itself but would ruin the surprise ... read more

The bus arrived in Mendoza in the morning and once we had settled into the hostel (Lazares - clean and quiet) we headed out to explore. It was a pleasant change walking the streets in summer gear. We had a perfect temperature and it was just a perfect summer's day. Very welcome after wearing pretty much all the clothes we have with us - at the same time - for the last month or so. After a delicious al fresco lunch we managed to pick up a number of Christmas presents for the rest of the Simmonds family. We even managed to get Gemma to a decent hairdressers for a haircut, despite the horror stories we had heard of purple/orange hair dye and bad cuts. Most of the time spent in there was trying to explain ... read more

Our last 18hr South American bus journey, from Bariloche to Mendoza, was probably the most fun of all the bus journeys taken. It was comfortable, the food was good, time to get to Mendoza seem to go quite quick and the biggest highlight of the journey was winning a bottle of wine at bus bingo in Spanish. Mum - you would be so proud of your daughter, all those years of practising with you paid off. To the disappointment of some of the locals on the bus, (l´m sure a lot of them were thinking ´not that roudy gringo chica in the back..´) it made a very pleasant and interesting bus ride. Over 1000 active wineries in Mendoza makes up over 70% of the Argentinas wine. The minute l set foot into this city it spelled ... read more

Landed in Mendoza at 8pm (after a six hour stopover in Buenos Aires) and it was still 30c heat. Struck lucky with a cab to the hostel, by a cabbie who was let down by someone, so got it for half price. Hostel owner is from Derby, which made everything easier. Today was supposed to be spent doing a lovely half day tour of the wineries, instead for Zoe anyway, it was spent with a massively aching bum and a bicycle that was too big for her. Wineries visited - 1 Wineries supposed to be visited - 4 Was Zoe happy NO!! Leon on the other hand enjoyed his 12km bike ride, as he had a bike that fitted him and still managed to push me along when i was flagging. More trips to the gym ... read more

1th of nov---5th of nov ,Cajon Arenales,with nacho and pachi ,climb with pato,5days trip.windy and hight elevetion(camp2500m), so sometime very cold for belay.sometime cold rock .and alpine rock so sometime rotten and rough rock. but it was great climbing.rout name " armonifca" (3400alt)and "mejor no hablarde ciertos cosas" (rout 500m long)was super good!!I love there. Santiago から車で６時間　アルゼンチン　アンデスの山々の反対側です。もちろん目的はクライミングそして待望の大自然の中でのキャンプ標高３４００ｍまだまだ雪も少し残ってる。あんまり違う国に来た実感なし。でも食べ物若干やすいかも？特に肉！ステーキセットが４００円！！ ... read more