Park Hyatt Mendoza

... park. Monty and I decided to walk to the top of hill at the park and there we had a picnic lunch. Of course as per normal we walked the wrong direction home and got lost. Ending up in a suburb of Mendoza miles away... But we carried on walking and eventually made it back to the balcony..... <br><br>Spent a lot of time here hanging out with the people we met and eating heaps. From Mendoza we decided to go to Chilie.......

... good fun and very peaceful, with mountains either side of us and the Chilean border on 15km to our west and clear sunny skies we merrily marched on after our guide Agustin. The route we took was apparently an original Inca trail, one of the most southerly ever found and close to the discovery of a child sacrafice - sacraficed at nearly 6000m the Incas truely worshiped the power of mother nature and the spirits of the mountains. All very ...

... did his very best to help us, the guy that gave us the bikes dropped us back to the bus stop and paid for our bus and raved on abaout some Irish man with the surname of Brown who helped Argentina gain independence, everyone asking us if we needed help with directions... weird but nice. Following day our bums were too sore to cycle again but lucky we had an appointment with the vineyard i used to import from in my job in Searsons ...

... tasty chocolate and ice-cream. A beautiful hike to the lookout points; swimming around an island and bumping into our first South African were the clear highlights in San Martin de los Andes. A 'not so happy' memory would definitely be turning up to the bus station thirty minutes before departure for our onward travel to Mendoza, to find out forty minutes later that we should have got on a bus that left ten minutes before. It sounds a little confusing and I won't go into ...

... Last stop was Mendoza, about 5 hours away by bus crossing back into Argentina. We hired bikes and toured the wine region, quite dangerous as it was along a busy road (and we and everyone else were full of wine). Friends we met had an accident the day after us where the front wheel came off and he smacked head first into the road, spending the night in hospital (but could have been worse...). We also took a horseride around the hills above the town at sunset (it ...

... fun cycling around from vineyard to vineyard testing all the wines - the heat makes you feel light-headed pretty quick and the Israeli gets into the spirit of things with 3 fast glasses in the first vineyard. It´s all smiles from there. Throw in a chocolate factory and an olive oil press (sun dried tomatoes were well tasty) and you have plenty to keep you interested for an afternoon. Then we all head back to Hugo´s for some ...