Blogs from Mendoza, Argentina, South America - page 5

Geo: -38.4161, -63.6167On 1st of January 2016, Alex and I left very early Valparaiso (8 AM) to get to Santiago where he went off sightseeing and in the evening catching a plane to Montreal and me I took a bus to Mendoza. Now, when I started planning my trip, there was no mention of Mendoza, so why did I go there? Because (or better thanks to) Adrián. We met during the JCI World Congres in Kanazawa (Japan) in November 2015 and he immediately invited me to visit him in Mendoza when I told him about my tour. Him seeming like a nice person and me always taking the offer to see another place, I decided to go there for 3 days. I thought, 3 days are absolutely enough to visit a city, but my visit turned ... read more

After another enormous breakfast, seriously, we were picked up at the hotel by our Ampora escort for the day, Sabrina. Sabrina is a literature teacher, although she is currently working full time as a tour guide for Ampora. She's also a licensed Sommelier, and very passionate about wine. I do believe that we have to credit her company for how extra special our tour was. Once more, she spoke perfect English and had lived in the United States. I liked her immensely. Uco Valley is a more recent addition to the wine production areas in Mendoza. From the story we were given, Mendoza was an area of high wine production for a very long time, but mostly table wines that were consumed in large quantities locally. It wasn't until some of the wineries decided to enter ... read more

With no direct buses or other cheap modes of transport to get from Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay to Cordoba in Argentina, I was back on the ferry back to Buenos Aires with Merian in tow. I would have to spend another night at Milhouse - Avenue this time rather than Hipo - before jumping on an overnight bus to Cordoba. Although I didn't think BA was my favourite city after my first visit there and although I wasn't too enamoured about having to return, there are indeed worse places to have to spend a night. Boca Juniors won the Argentinian football league the night we arrived and Merian and I flocked, like almost every Boca fan in the city, to the obelisk on Avenida 9 de Juilo to witness the celebrations. A sea of blue ... read more

Hi All, We spent 4 days in Mendoza because we managed to get the bargain of the year for an 8-dorm hostel. We didn’t do a whole lot in Mendoza apart from drink decent wine and watch TV series. So we arrived in Mendoza about 9.30am on Sunday; the coach was meant to arrive at 6.15am so I don’t know how we could have been 3 hours later when there weren’t any long stops along the way. But anyway, after the total bus journey from Cafayate to Mendoza was 19 hours for a total of £65 we made it. When we arrived we knew the direction to the Itaka hostel we had booked-it was about 1.5 miles from the station but we thought we would stretch our legs and get breakfast on the way. We had ... read more

De laatste dag dat mijn familie in Mendoza verblijft. Vandaag verkennen we de stad. We bezoeken de voornaamste plaatsen van de stad. Bij mijn stage ging alles goed voor de eerste keer in mijn stage kwamen ook Belgen langs in het hostel.... read more