Vineyards in Mendoza

Big hills, small wineries and windy mountains

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April 25th 2009
Leaving Uruguay was lot harder than we expected, simply because it was Easter holidays and all the buses were booked up. We ended up going to a student town in the middle of Argentina called Cordaba. Tracy had read about a town nearby called Cappilla del Monte that is famous for UFO sightings. Some say that the under town's hill, Cerro Uritorco, is a subterranean city where the future regene ... read more

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more