El Portal Suites Apart Hotel Mendoza

Apres avoir fait un "draft" de notre itineraire de l Argentine, nous realisons que nous avons quelques jours de jeu. Alexandre propose d aller a Mendoza, le centre de la region vinicole du pays. Quelle bonne idee!! <br><br>Le sejour se passe a merveille. On se fait offrir un bel appartement pour moins cher que l hotel. On passera 2 jours sur la route des vins, a decouvrir d excellents Malbec et d autres bons vins. La bouffe ...

... but I hadn't signed up for that part. They offered me the opportunity, and after wavering a bit, I thought "why not?" This was something I haven't yet tried. Apparently, there were reasons why not, and all of the other Americans knew them--stepping off a cliff was one, instructions in a different language was another, and being 7000 miles from your health plan was a third. But we only live once, right? In retrospect, it was ...

... I am particularly infatuated with extremely high mountains. There is something humbling, awe-inspiring and remarkable about the earth's tectonic movements and its creation of gigantic peaks. With this infatuation in mind, one can understand how excited I was to be in Mendoza. We were a short drive away from Cerro Aconcagua, the 6,962m (22,841ft) summit that is the highest peak in the world outside of the Great Himalaya, Hindu Kush and ...

... sorted it out and started making some good stuff, here mainly of the red malbec variety. Along the route we stopped off at a wine museum, and an olive oil farm, before enjoying a fabulous late lunch in the setting sun in a vineyard - stewed veal cooked in red malbec (what else) with olive oil bread. This eating on the road sure can get you down... All was smooth as fine aged vin rouge until Laura´s bike decided that it didn´t fancy the cut of the chains gib ...

... We started first with a tasting directly from the oak cast. The wine we tried was the Melbec Reserve 2008. The wine was still young and needed a bit more time in the cast but was a very interesting experience. I have had some wines that are much younger tasting than this reserve. We then were given most of the wine from there line I think we had about 6 bottled wines. This vineyard really took their time showing us the full production. It was an amazing ...

... fill of extreme sport! We arrived and had our safety briefing headed up the river in a van and got started! About 1 minute into our ride we all realized that our guide was going to be an absolute complete *********!! I would call him worse but I dont want my blog to be reported! He was ridiculing us for not paddeling together within the first minute! I dont what he was expecting and none of us ...

Mendoza, Argentina. What can I say except that this place is Shangri La in comparison to anything in Peru & Chile. The city is clean and dog free and definitely pee free. There are parks and plaza's every where.A pleasure to stay here. More to follow.

... la plaça central. Tant de bo! 23.01.2009 Auch den heutigen Tag verbringe ich im Hostel, um meine Erkaeltung auszukurieren. Maria und Ilona machen eine Tagestour in die Berge, bis hoch zu einem Aussichtspunkt fuer den Aconcagua. Einen 6900m hohen Berg. Ausserdem wollen sie die Puente del Inka besichtigen. Anders als der Name vermuten lässt, ist die Brücke kein Bauwerk der Inkas, sondern ein durch Erosion natürlich gebildeter Bogen. Der Name kommt vielmehr von der Vermutung ...

... vintage without being able to taste it? Why would you only offer tastings of the cheap stuff? Weird... <br><br>Anyway, after a very interesting tour around the facilities (they kept it simple and it was really effective), which took in the vineyards... <br><br> <br><br>...the first (separation ...

... arranged to meet for another tasting evening at the same place on Wednesday night (!) and headed out into the warm night with rather fuzzy heads. <br><br>They must have really been fuzzy, because we had dinner in McDonalds! Katie had been going on about visiting a Maccas for weeks now, probably ironically, but this time when we passed one we ducked in. <br><br>Over here McDonalds serve wine, empañadas, and local deserts! Naturally we avoided all ...