Amazing views from the bus as we crossed back over the Andes

A breath of fresh air

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December 1st 2006
All we knew about Mendoza was that it is the wine capital of Argentina, that it has 300 days of sunshine a year and that everyone we knew who´d visited loved it. We thought these references where enough to develop rather a "cockins" route to include it in our itinery. We flew from Buenos Aires to Santiago in Chile, spent an unremarkable night there and headed off in the morning for an 8 hour b ... 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