http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Uspallata/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from South America , Argentina , Mendoza , Uspallata en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:55:36 BST Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:55:36 BST The crossing from Mendoza Argentina to Vina del Mar Chile only took 8 hours. It was amazing how much different the mountains looked from the day before as much of the lowered level snow had melted and we could really see the different colours and layers in the mountains. They're actually really colourful in a strange kind of way. The border crossing took ages and was freezing its a full on cros http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Uspallata/blog-282614.html As well as ensuring that we finally get to see the Andes we had another motive for taking the tour up into the high mountains it goes on the same road that passes over to Chile and would take us almost to the border so that rather than hearing about the conditions we could see and assess them for ourselves. At the start of the day the guide wasn't sure how high up we'd be able to go as no one kn http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Uspallata/blog-282553.html Uspallarta is both the name of a small village and a remote pass between Mendoza and Santiago Chile. Travelling between Santiago and Mendoza was a joy beautiful craggy mountains twisting roads that double back on them selves over and over looping up the mountain.After arriving in Mendoza I headed back to the village spent an afternoon on horseback taking photos when I could convince the be http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Uspallata/blog-274247.html