A Lake, Pickles and Gareth LLewellyn

Mendoza to Bariloche

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August 11th 2006
Following our day at the winerys in Mendoza as aforementioned we organised a tour through the hostel called high mountain. With our limited spanish we werent exactly sure what we would be doing on this tour but figured we needed something to do, so we awoke at 6 o clock to the sound of Pickles alarm, still waiting for his illusive call from Reuters and headed to the bus parked outside. Pretty b ... read more

South America » Argentina » Río Negro » San Carlos de Bariloche

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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