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San Juan Slideshow
San Juan
Travel Blogs from San Juan, Argentina
Short stay for a long night and a good visit
... went out to visit the city and stumbled upon a free tour from the tourism office. It was interesting, and like Mendoza, San Juan suffered a big earthquake in 1944. We finished the tour in the auditorium where an orchestra was practicing. On the ...
Valle De La Luna - Argentina
... a day or so, with some nice colonial buildings, and an area surrounded by Jesuit missions. From there we went to San Juan, a laid back little town and the base for trips to the Parque Provincial Ischigualasto, which encompasses the Valle De ...
Mondexpedition
Zusammen mit Chica Linda Francesa Margeux bin ich am Dienstag nach San Agostin, Valle Fertil gefahren um das beruehmte Valle de la Luna zu besuchen. Es war richtig kalt, so 15 Grad und ich musste mein Patagonien-Outfit wieder auspacken. Dabei hat es San ...
A la bonne franquette... et tout le bazar!
Y asi llegamos a Mendoza, gran ciudad argentina conocida sobre todo por la region vinicola que la rodea, tan famosa como La Rioja en España o Bordeaux en Francia. La ciudad no tenia nada realmente especial, a parte de algunos parquecitos por el ...
Wine Towns
... the Dakar Rally (which has now apparently been staged in Argentina and Chiole for a few years thanks to atacks in the Sahara). San Juan is a very modern town after many destructive earthquakes with wide, tree lined streets in the wine district. Spent the ...
Red wine and even redder steaks
So we arrived into Mendoza at what we thought was 9pm (actually 10pm) and had no accomodation booked as we, ahem, forgot (again!) about the bank holiday weekend. But the lovely people in tourism reservations got us the beds in the last hostel in town ...
San Juan - disappointing!
Another overnight bus. But this time better - exutivo lived up toits rep, with food and wine served along with a high quality DVD - pirated straight from the cinema Spiderman 3! Beds went fully flat and actually got some sleep for a change. Went ...
Argentina has the best snow...
G´day all, There are a few days missing and other things i would like to go into more depth but the internet access is slow and expensive so ill fill in the gaps when i get to Buenos Aires. We arrived in Las Lenas on saturday night in blizzard ...
Mod to Sev Turb over the Andes is disturbing..
This is just a quick fill, flying over the Andes Santiago to Mendoza we hit some very disturbing levels of turbulance. It is some what more concerning when you see nothing but snow capped mountains as far as the eye can see, beleive me. None ...
Talampaya National Park & Valle de la Lune
... , it was beautiful. From Wikipedia: Talampaya National Park is a national park located in the east/centre of La Rioja Province, Argentina. It was designated a provincial reserve in 1975, a national park in 1997, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. ...
Ischigualasto National Park
... done by vehicle because it's a pretty extensive area. This park is actually part of the Talampaya area, but as it's in a different province, San Juan but not La Rioja anymore, then it has a different name and a new entrance fee. All of us agreed on that ...
Desert Adventures
... goose chase. Despite a few false leads, we found out that the park was just north of a town called San Juan. From there we didn't have a clue how to get to the park. We arrived in San Juan late the ...
We´re doomed, doomed I tell you
... These are identifiable as piles of empty plastic bottles by the roadside offered to ensure a safe journey. The shrine outside San Juan is something else altogether. The shrine consists of several buildings completely covered with plaques, some marble, ...
San Juan, Vallée fertile
Après avoir quitté Mendoza, nous nous sommes rendu à San Juan pour nous rendre aux deux parcs nationaux de la vallée fertile. Malheureusement, en nous rendant sur place, il était impossible de faire la visite des parcs à cause de la pluie qui a ...
Sick Ward
After a relatively quiet Wednesday, the following day began with another visit to Nuestra Senora de Andacolla school. We interracted once again with the students and participated in a soccer match. I think this has been the best experience so far for the ...
Happy to be alive!
... , my visit to San Juan wasn't all smiles... Due to my lack of organisation in Mendoza, I hadn't organised a hostel before arriving in San Juan, nor had I checked my lonely planet. Sure enough, as it was so far off the G-trail, there was nothing about it ...
Aircondition required
We went north through the Argentinian pampas. It was really hot, so we stayed as much as we could in the airconditioned Volkswagen. ...
San Juan - Syrah, Sten og Skodhostel
... vi ville spise lidt tidlig aftensmad og saa i seng. Det viste sig dog ikke at vaere en mulighed. Pga. sparsom turisme i San Juan, foelger man de argentinske spisetider. Dvs. at restauranterne aabner 9- halv 10 om aftenen. Lidt traette satte vi os i ...
Hey Zephyr, we think we saw a roadrunner...beep
... , and it proves to be just the job and dirt cheap at less than £10 pppn. The reason we're basing ourselves in San Agustin is because it's within easy striking distance of Parque Provincial de Ischigualasto, or Itchycoo Park as S. + H. have dubbed ...
Copping a Squat
... the vineyard, and opened up the shop so that he could sell me a couple of delicious bottles of wine. Big lesson learned while in San Juan, however, was: each Argentinian province makes its own drinking laws. So note to all of you out there -- in San ...
The Land of Dinosaurs and Drumheller-like Scenery
So I had read about this place of dino fossils-up to 180 million yrs old, wierd rock formations, and so I thought that it sounded really cool. I set off to the place and arrived later in the day and checked out the tours. They were a little ...
C est parti !!
... auberge. C etait tres propre, confortable, avec repas, boisson et film. J ai pu pas trop mal dormir. Arrivee a 7h et quelques a San Juan, nous avons ete dans une auberge pour seulement 1h. Nous nous sommes rendu compte que le parc etait encore loin et qu ...
Ischigualasto (Valley of the Moon) from San Juan
... In an attempt to reach her sick husband, Deolinda took her baby child and followed the tracks of the Montoneras through the desert of San Juan Province. When her supplies ran out, she died. Her body was found days later by gauchos that were driving cattle ...
Flintstones
... me. After the tour we then drove back to Valle Fertil and managed to stay awake long enough to eat. Wed 20 Feb Our bus to San Juan is not until 2pm so we had a much needed lie-in and lazed around until Daniel gave us a lift to ...
from between 09 Jan 2006 & 25 Jan 2006. Route 40
... Argentina, is the path nature made by walking; beginning in the rocky, virgin, arid Puna, North Argentina of Jujuy, passing thru the flora of San Juan, the vineyards of Mendoza, crossing the woods of Neuquen along the National Parks of Chubut and ...
Greetings From San Juan.....
... abortion and the death penalty (completely in spanish of course). That evening the girls climbed the cathedral tower for views of San Juan. The adults weren´t invited. Then we went out for pasta. Everyone seemed exhausted. The adrenaline had worn off ...
Starvin Marvin
... (where they also had a hostel), get on a tour to see Valle de la Luna and Talampaya parks and then get a bus back on Wednesday to San Juan which was perfect for us. We just had 45mins to get it booked and pack up before the bus left! The bus was 4 ...
