http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from South America , Argentina , Mendoza en-us Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:38:56 BST Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:38:56 BST Como hace uno para poder volcar con palabras un viaje que resulto ser nico e inolvidable Nuestro destino seria el da sbado 27 de septiembre la provincia de Mendoza junto a Gustavo Luis Javier y Laia.Despus de hacer algunas compras y preparar ciertas cosas para el viaje llegaba el momento de emprender viaje tomando la autopista del oeste para luego hacer los 1049 Km. que separan Buenos Air http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-329873.html Chap 5 aux portes du Chili Mendoza San Juan du 2 au 5 aoutNous arrivons au beau matin San Juan ville de province endormie au pied de la cordillre pour faire quelques excursions dans mes montagnes. Seulement a tombe l'eau ds notre arrive car les horaires de bus sont peu compatibles avec les visites associes....zut alors.Nous trouvons un htel au confort limitelimite mais on ne v http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-326700.html I am leaving for Cordoba here in a bit..... Taking an overnight bus my favorite and as usual elected the camaoption bed.Walked around to take a look at the five plazas here in Mendoza today. Plaza Italia Plaza Espana Plaza San Martin Plaza Chile and the main plaza Plaza Independencialove and adventuremeg http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-325324.html Mendoza ArgentinaHELLOA few days ago we booked a few tours to Lonely Planets must dos while in Mendoza a winery tour and Alta Montana. Judith the German girl I met in Bariloche Argentina and I booked at Campo Base. Yesterday we went to a few wineries a sweets shop and an olive producer. Argentina is the fifth largest in wine production in the world. Famed for its Malbec. Besides wine o http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-325323.html Mendoza ArgentinaTook AndesMar for the 17 which was actually 19 hour ride from the mountainous ski town Bariloche Argentina to Mendoza. I met a German girl named Judith in Bariloche at Hostel 1004 she took AndesMar too...We arrived this morning and decided upon a hostel Hostel Independencia which is nice but a little crowded and lacks some amentities... we are changing to Winkas hostel tomor http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-325322.html Hola Chicas y ChicosAnother instalment that you have been eagerly awaiting from the Shanny Stevie roadshow.After a fantastic time spent in Buenos Aires we jumped on a full cama bus to Mendoza. Full Cama means Full Bed. Big squashy chairs that recline totally and foot rest to match coming up to meet you. Bliss....the food is a bit hit and miss though so suggest to anyone wanting to try th http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-325075.html Argentina was a bit of a disappointment for us at first partly because we had not got our heads around South America yet and partly because we chose to stay in major cities rather than venture off the beaten track to the more tranquil villages which we prefer. What we did see however were very nice safe in some cases and clean cities. The Argentineans definitely know how to have a good feed http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-321621.html But we will not start there....when you last tuned in we would have been preparing for another look at the Iguazu Waterfalls from the Argentinian side.Before we got the opportunity to look at this magnificent spectacle we had the small matter of negotiating our way across the border in Argentina. No great shakes admin wise but you have to pay for a bus R3 in Foz do Iguacu with one bus compa http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-319890.html Hello again. I hope we wonrsquot be absent for so long at a time now. We left Mendoza on Labor Day and are now on the coast of Chile but I donrsquot want to get ahead of myself. A couple of weeks ago we took three young men with us and went by bus to San Rafael. Near there we visited Valle Grande and Canon Atuel. We rented a car in the city of San Rafael so I have now experienced driving http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/blog-319538.html Dag 80. Siden vi ikke hadde sovnet for langt ut paa morgenkvisten pga. en gjeng tyske ungdommer som festet hoylydt paa hostellet sto vi ikke opp for kl. 10.30. I dag hadde Jane plan om aa ha picnic i parken men forst maatte vi faa vasket en omgang med klaer og kjope bussbilletter til Bariloche til imorgen. Vi kjopte billetter til en cama som har seter som kan legges helt ned siden turen http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-319064.html Dag 79.Vi skulle bli hentet kl. 08.30 men den ble litt over ni for det dukket opp noen for aa hente oss. Vi kjorte ca. 45 minutter for vi kom til den forste vingaarden. Siden det var sondag skulle vi besoke to smaa vingaarder istedenfor en stor og en liten som var vanlig. Den store var stengt siden alle der hadde fri paa sondager.Den forste vingaarden var Carmine Granata og vi fikk forst en om http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-319058.html Dag 78.Etter en vanlig argentinsk frokost var det Eirik sin tur til aa faa varme klaer. Vi gikk til samme butikk som igaar Nordic Sportswear og Eirik fant det han skulle ha etter mye proving. Vi gikk tilbake til hostellet med tingene og pakket en liten sekk med det vi trengte til en tur i parken. Selvfolgelig fikk Eirik lov aa gaa med de nye skoene sine.For aa komme til parken gikk vi ca. 2 km http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-318374.html Dag 77.I dag vaaknet vi for seint til aa naa frokosten paa hostellet som var ferdig kl 10.Paa formiddagen maatte vi finne et vaskeri for vi hadde fint lite rene klaer igjen i sekken stort sett naar vi trenger klaer vasket leverer vi inn de paa formiddagen og faar de tilbake samme ettermiddag. Vi gikk rundt i omraadet og letet etter en minibank som tok Visakortet til Eirik fra Skandiabanken http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-318362.html somit dann wieder richtung sueden weil grenzen grad zu in bolivien disturbos und lecker wein trinken.. da gibts ganz viele winzer rocco hab auch alles probiert.. cabernet dings und mit honig und mit dings und so weiter auf jedenfall am ende hat es seinen dienst getan.. erholsam schoen nett http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-318253.html Michelle and I went to a BBQ last night set up by the hostel. it was a lot of fun. there were people there from all over the world. we drank some wine and i get really good at spanish after a little wine. hhehe. Its michelles birthday today so last night at midnight everyone sang happy birthday to her in spanish and english. Today we went whitewater rafting then we rappelled downt the s http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-318076.html This past July 2008 I went to Argentina for 22 days. I went to Buenas Aires La Plata Mendoza Salta Cordoba and Colonia Uraguay and some of the towns surrounding those areas. In Mendoza Kevin and I rented an apartment for a week. It was really nice. We went grocery shopping in the evening for our dinner of empanadas or pizza and for our breakfast of coffee bread cheese and ham. We http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-316182.html Monday the 12thGot on a bus that night half steamed. We decided a few evening beers would help us sleep on the bus as it was an overnight bus about 11 hours to mendoza. Then on the bus they then gave us more drink wine and whiskey. I was knocked out. Tuesday the 13th and wednesday the 14thWoke up to find we were parked in some bus hospital. Again the friggin bus broke down. Broken down vehicles d http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/blog-312602.html Itrsquos hard to believe that it is less than three weeks until Rich returns and we begin our travels. We are very excited about exploring more of this vast and beautiful continent. Although the time wersquove spent in Mendoza has not been a vacation it has certainly renewed my spirit. I hope that I have shared some wisdom with the youth Irsquove been working with here. I know each has http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-310143.html Having survived a mammoth 22 hour coach journey from Pt. Iguazu to Cordoba I arrived at a nice little hostel near the centre of the city. The people there that owned it were very welcoming and best of all spoke good English which makes life a whole lot easier. In fact so welcoming that we2 were invited to join them in one of their BBQ's that night I think they call it Empanadas there The http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-309102.html Mendoza.....the place of the Malbec wine. Here we caught up with our friends from Farellones Ski Hostel Andrea and Jeremiah and enjoyed a few days of drinking wine and drinking wine Mendoza is one of the most beautiful cities we have visited so far. Lots of big open wellkept parks with big trees lining the streets. We went to three wineries while we were here. It was very interesting for us to http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-307950.html The land of vino and the Andes.After departing Beunos Aires we set out on our journey to Mendoza in the west of the country. We went with Cama Suite on our overnight bus out of Buenos Aires this is first class of buses the seats go back into a 180 degree angle you get a 3 course dinner with wine included and also a glass of champagne or whiskey after your dinner if we could travel like this al http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-307161.html Tijd is tijdens reizen een heel relatief begrip. Die billenknijpende vijf minuten in een Peruaanse taxi lijken wel uren te duren terwijl een hele dag bij Machu Picchu eigenlijk veel te snel voorbij is. Maar soms gaat de tijd tijdens het reizen ineens wel heel erg hard. Zo hebben we in de afgelopen week sinds Santiago de Chile in amper 7 dagen tijd zo'n beetje alle seizoenen afgewerkt. In Valparai http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/blog-306813.html So having checked weather reports we decided to cancel plans to go South gonna do that on our return to argentina in about 5 weeks and have instead headed west to mendoza near the Chilean border and wow... what can I say Beautiful chilled out city with the andes in sight cool crisp mountain air and a chance to chill the fuck out. Which is just the remedy for the mayhem that was BAIt see http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-304467.html Leaving Mendoza today after a week here. Great city. Quite sleepy but very relaxing and much better weather than the cold and wet of Bariloche. This is wine producing region of Argentina so you can probably imagine that red wine consumption has been pretty grand We did a wine tour on bikes which was great fun even if slightly dangerous after a fair amount of red wine. It was one of my best days http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-303202.html I attended a Spanish language program at a place called Intercultural last week. I left the house at about 745 each morning. It is about a 30 minute walk each way. I allowed my self time to stop at a cafe for jugo naranja fresh squeezed cafe con leche and a medaluna. From 830 a.m. to 1 p.m. I heard not a word of English unless it inadvertently escaped from my own lips. It was very taxi http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-302357.html With a day time bus trip on offer the chance to rest the feet and tune into some spanish lessons was anticipated. But with the impending and very imposing Andes beckoning from the distance there was no way any Spanish was going to be done. The feet rested while the neck struggled to ensure the views were throughly appreciated. Gradually decreasing agricultural activity as the altitude ascende http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-301969.html We were both looking forward to the bus journey back to Santiago from Mandoza. The crossing of this part of the Andes is both long and unpredictable. The road can be closed at short notice so we left a couple of days grace in case anything went wrong. Our bus left on time and the day was very clear which was great as we really wanted a good view as our crossing from Osorno to Bariloche had been http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-300097.html 1172008 We decided after class the girls Irsquom staying with to take a bus all the way to Mendoza Yeah for those of you who arenrsquot quite sure where in the world Carmen Sandiego like dadada Mendoza is near the border of ChileArgentina So yeah is was pretty hectichellip.It took such a long time to get there the food they served on the bus was either ham and cheese or ham and che http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-300003.html Back to where I left off...last Thursday the school held a cooking class to learn how to make alfajores and some kind of pie I forgot what its called. But I kept the recipes and hope to make them when I get back to the states I think thats the only kind of Argentine cuisine Ill be able to make myself. No huge steaks or entrail stew for me. Im kidding its not really entrail stew but stew w http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-299821.html We were both pretty excited about going to Mendoza the centre of wine country in Argentina and at the gateway to the Andes mountains. The bus journey started well with a jolly steward who gave us blankets and cushions and we soon curled up to catch up on some sleep. However we were awoken for breakfast which was another Argentinian culinary masterpiece dry crackers with some jam to dip them http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-299737.html