Nutibara Hotel Mendoza
Av Mitre 867 Mendoza, Province of Mendoza, Cuyo, 5500, Argentina
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Wine Tours: The MOST dangerous adventure sport
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3. The city of Mendoza is much bigger than you would expect from wine country. In fact most of the wines are produced hours outside of the center in areas like Maipu - prounced MY POO. Insert immature jokes.
4. Christmas in Mendoza. Most of the people celebrate late on Christmas eve. My christmas is spent mainly lazing in the hostel pool on hammocks and what not drinking myself in wine and cooking steak. During our Christmas BBQ we´re forced to down as much steak as ...
Mendoza (mmmm...Malbec...)
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That evening, as we'd had enough of eating out and as our hostel had an awsome giant outdoor braai – any house in SA would love a braai like this. We decided to hunt down some steaks, a good bottle of red wine and a bag of wood (yip a wood fire), which being Argentina was pretty easy to find. So Greg tanned us some super great steaks for dinner, was a really nice evening – warm summers night, good bottle of red wine and a nice braai going in ...
Spanish School in Mendoza
... Walsh died in January this year at the age of 80 and was mainly known for her songs and books for children. She wrote the score for the academy award winning Argentine film, 'The Official Story'.
David walked me to school each day and we took different routes to see various parts of the city. It was good exercise and very relaxing and without a car there are no parking problems. Parking is ...
Wineries, Zombies, Bike Rides and Picnics
... that we were back in normal civilisation. The city layout and architecture was such that it wouldn't have looked out of place anywhere in Europe. On arrival at the hostel we were treated to a free glass of vino and the afternoon was spent orientating ourselves with the city, followed by some excellent local tacos and a few beers in the hostel's garden/courtyard.
Tuesday was our substitute Halloween. As we had been driving all yesterday we decided that today, ...
Mendoza: Wine, food and adventure
... am because the transfer for the 2nd excursion was picking us up from 8.30. In our slightly drunken state the night before we messedup the alarm clock and only woke up at 8.15... what a shock to the system! We just managed to get dressed, packed the bag, went downstairs and to our surprise also had some breakfast because they only arrived at 9.30... this is Argentina timekeeping you know!!
They took us further up into the mountain than the day before, ...



