http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from South America , Argentina , Mendoza en-us Sat, 25 May 2013 18:44:25 +0000 Sat, 25 May 2013 18:44:25 +0000 Not the last blog about Argentina...but I guess the last blog published outside of Buenos Aires....end of June is coming pretty fast. After 18 hours on the bus we made it to Mendoza from Salta. I knew there was not a lot to see in the city. The fun here is just outside town. Regardless Mendoza is a very peaceful city...full of gorgeous restaurants I would certainly not mind moving here for an e http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-785136.html Im sure this city does not require an introduction everyone knows what this area is famous forIt took 19 12 hours by bus from Bariloche leaving at 1pm on Thursday and arriving 8.30am Friday we were lucky that the bus went as the drivers were planning a strike from 2pm that day but we left on time and all went well as far as sleeping on buses goes it wasnt too bad. We went straight to the http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-784383.html For our last full day in Mendoza we had booked ourselves into a high mountains tour. Speaking with a French guy at the hostel he mentioned that we should go to the Cristo Redentor de los Andes Christ the Redeemer of the Andes a monument placed on the border of Argentina and Chile on the old highway between the two countries at 4000 metres above sea level. The intention of the monument was to http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Aconcagua/blog-782062.html ltbr stylecolor 000000 fontfamily Helvetica fontsize medium lineheight normal webkittaphighlightcolor rgba26 26 26 0.296875 webkitcompositionfillcolor rgba175 192 227 0.230469 webkitcompositionframecolor rgba77 128 180 0.230469 webkittextsizeadjust auto gtApparently my last blog was to long so ill keep them shorter from now on. I can39t http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/San-Rafael-/blog-781981.html As mentioned in the last post we were intending on Saturday night on finding the free wine tasting that the Mendoza council had put on . However we did not find it. Thinking back on it now i think i know where we saw it but it did not look right... Anyways instead we ventured up to the bar area of Mendoza and walked up and down looking for a place that was 1. open as it was only 8pm 2. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-781621.html We arrive in Mendoza at 7am after a 10hr bus ride from Cordoba. We had travelled first class as the bus was direct and the seats only an extra 60 pesos each 12 U.S. This meant that the seats lied flat. However we only figured out right at the end how to extend the leg rests completely flat stupid tourists... At least we know for next time. We have also found that a good way to help sleep on http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-780925.html Set in the heart of Argentina39s wine region the beautiful city of Mendoza was the next stop on our journey. After another night bus we arrived at 8am and walked the short distance from the bus terminal to our base for the next three days Hostel Mora. We were greeted with a breakfast of pancakes while we waited to check into our dorm. It was a nice gesture as we hadn39t stayed there the http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-779761.html Mendoza is a beautiful little town very walkable and easy to navigate thanks to five large plazas. The biggest Plaza Independencia is right in the middle of town and is surrounded by four smaller plazas. They all have fountains beautiful tiles and monuments. There39s lots of pedestrian streets and an impressive canalirrigation system.On January 8 2013 we arrived in Mendoza shortly after http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/blog-778767.html Lijkt het reizen langzamerhand op vakantie Gelukkig niet Het noordelijke deel van Argentini is dichter bevolkt heeft meer voorzieningen en dus ook meer keuze stress. Dat zijn we na 3 maanden leegte in Antarctica en Patagonia niet meer gewend. Behalve toeristische plaatsen als Bariloche en Mendoza zoeken we daarom al snel weer naar de meer afgelegen plekken. We komen weer midden in bijzonde http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-778478.html We have made it out of Chile into Argentina and head back to Chile in the Morning.We are actually in Los Flores tonight but there was no Los Flores for the blog entry so we are not now in Uspillata.Blog so far....Wow what a start to the adventure with wayward adventurers at the Airport going directly through Immigration instead of regrouping with the lady39s that had come to farewell us over http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Uspallata/blog-775154.html We arrived in the early morning in Mendoza following a lovely bus journey with Andersmarr which was even nicer than the last company newer buses more movies and again the food was ok we even managed to get a glass of wine We were both very surprised at how big Mendoza was. We were expecting a small town but this place was like a small city. We booked into the Lagares hostel which was a short wal http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-774634.html Arriving into Mendoza on the worst bus in the world from Santiago see previous post I was relieved to find a warm relaxed and actually quite trendy town surrounded by vineyards bodegas and snow capped mountains. This was my first day in Argentina and so I didn39t really know what to expect the bus from Mendoza to the Bodegas in nearby Maipu however was a good indicator of how things would http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-773997.html Yeyy Zwei Tg schuelfrei d.h. verlngerets Weekend d.h. Usflug Wo gahts hi Yes MendozaBekannt fr guete Wii und en huufe Action. Ide Provinz Mendoza liit de Aconcagua de grscht Berg uf de Sdhalbkugle. Im Wikipedia staht er isch 6962m hch.Guet dLaura und ich hnd also es verlngerets Weekend uf Mendoza buecht Reiseart Bus 14h pro Fahrt. Mir sind schn vorbildlich unargentin http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-771822.html Le col vers le Chili a rouvert hier en fin de journe mais ce sera un peu just pour moi de prendre la route Alta Montana avec mon bus ce soir tant pis le sjour Mendoza aura t dj trs sympa. Donc aujourdhui le programme cest de ne rien faire rester dans le patio et rcuprer de la veille. Il y a toujours quelquun avec qui discuter et puis il y a la proprio Une http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-771538.html Aujourdhui cest rafting Nous partons vers la route qui va au Chili et sur le chemin admirons les volcans de la Cordillre dont lAconcagua 6900m. Puis nous rejoignons le point de dpart en camionnette et dpassons une file interminable de camions qui attendent pour passer le col assez zen je dois dire. Nous sommes partis dun lac dun bleu profond nous allons naviguer sur la http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-771531.html Ok donc la rgion de Mendoza est rpute pour ses vignobles notamment le Malbec. Le meilleur moyen de sen assurer est daller faire des petites dgustations sur place. Comme Maria mavait bien conseill de ne pas prendre le bus loption vlo semblait la plus sympa. Trs agrable balade sous les platanes avec Martin le baroudeur super intressant et bien connaisseur ok je de http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-771521.html Arrive 8h Mendoza dj au terminal de bus on sent une ambiance touristique diffrente aprs le Nord ces derniers jours.Je minstalle lauberge et ds que je passe le pas de la porte je ne me sens pas trs laise dans cet endroit et je pense dj utiliser ladresse quon mavait conseille. Bref allons faire un tour dans Mendoza qui ressemble plus des vill http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-771420.html Livvy and Ru39s last birthday present to me was something special I would like to do on this trip. A trip out to a winery in the Valle de Uco fitted the bill. I will let the photos do most of the talking except for saying that the wine was exceptionally good as wellThe bodega is about 10 years old a modern concrete design which works well I think. No photos of that they are on my camera bu http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-771311.html I blame the wine the sunshine the food ..... I have been very lazy about writing another blog entry.Journeying from Colonia to Cordoba was another adventurous train journey. Pullman class was far more upmarket than my last journey here seats that recline and even turn around if you wish My companions were a couple of art students from Buenos Aires so the journey was lightened by some lovely g http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-771112.html iandien buvau apsisprends vienas vaiuoti kalnus bet Jana su Fernando pasil kartu vaiuoti Fernando eimai priklausant nam kaln miestelyje ir ten praleisti kelias dienas. Aiku sutikau su tokiu pasilymu. Prie ms i ryto dar prisijung nauja couchsurfer vokiet Lola. Iki miestelio 3 val. kelion autobusu. Pats miestelis madaug 2600 m. vir jros lygio bet a http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-769225.html