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On the road...the adventure starts !
Finally got out of Rosario, follow the instructions of my map selling friend
and even though, when in some dodgy district thought he had stuffed
me up all of a sudden I was on the right road and heading over the
big bridge across the river and into the flat waterways that were the
islands. About 10 k down the track I realised …
Wine fest
Got onto a bus at a decent hour of lunchtime in Santiago to head across the Andes to Mendoza. Obviously a stunning journey with a particularly interesting stop at the Chilean/ Argentine border at around 4000m via probably the most windy (not windy) road ever built,
where we nearly left Steve behind as he had wandered off to take pictures …
Mountains and Wine
Monday 27th Arrived in Mendoza about 8:00 after not such a great trip. Last time we traveled on the bus it was a Super Cama, this was a semi Cama. The difference was that the Super is a full size type of lay dowm bed, semi Camas are seats which slope back quite a way, but not horizontal. Slight mistake on our part. Any way we dropped our gear at …
Kryptonite and Lex Luther... the unbreaKable lock
... was hopping over the road we were on. We drove straight into the middle, and as we felt the heat from the fire and smoke, Camilo could no longer see in the thick black cloud. He let off the throttle, and then quickly decided we had to burst through….soon clearing to the other side. Whoa, that was unexpected!!!
Making it through the fire and the storm, we were still about to be stranded and out of gas. At this point, I figured ...
Argentina - Part 2 (Malbecing in Mendoza)
... and using the "we're on our honeymoon" argument, we decided to do both! We booked the bike and wine tour for the next day (via our hostel), deciding to save the 'lanie' tour for our last day in Mendoza. Booking and admin out the way we could now go and enjoy what the city had to offer. We decided to take a nice walk up towards one of the city's main attractions (aside from wine of course), San Martin Park. At nearly 400 hectares (1000 acres) in size and bordering on ...