Tierra Mora Apart Hotel Mendoza

... Giant´ bikes as well, not your usual tourist guff. Despite this I had to swap my bike as the gears didn´t work. Anyway, the purpose of the day trip was to get us to the top of a dirt road in the Argentinian Andes, near the Chilean border, so that we could hoon back down on our bikes, dropping over 1000 metres and nailing 365 curves (apparently, I didn´t count) in the process. It took nearly 2 hours with a couple of photo stops and was incredible. It was ...

... 8221; which were cute. In the late afternoon we went to the supermarket and bought ingredients for a pasta-dinner back at the hostel. We had a really nice evening chatting with everybody in the kitchen. <br> <br> On Monday we had a fantastic and hysterical day. We caught the bus about 45 minutes out of Mendoza (with three others from our hostel, Claire, Jamie and Vicky) to one of the main wine-growing regions to visit some &#8220;bodegas ...

Yesterday was a good day. We got up at 7:00am, which I could have done without, and went with Carlos to work. Actually it was kinda of nice to wake up early. We went to the site of a new vineyard he´s managing and it wasn´t even light out yet. It was beautiful watching the sunrise in the vineyard, especially with 8 foot hight parrel vines around you! We spent ...

... by their superfriendly staff and told the place was my home-from-home. 6am the next morning, my first Patagonian adventure began as I headed out for my BigIce Glacier hike at the Parque Nacional los Glaciares. On arrival we watched the sunrise over the national parks mountains &amp; lakes...beautiful. The world famous Perito Moreno Glacier met every expectation, reaching 60m high in its jagged peaks and stretching across 30km in length across ...

... taste-testing. It was incredibly depressing to realise how impractical it would be to buy myself a bottle of olive oil and take it with me.. but oh so tempting! And in other news i did randomly run into Guy (yes thats his name) at the factory, who i had met way back when in El Bolson, and whom i had only found out was also in Mendoza that morning, and will probably run into again in Salta. You can`t be completely anonomous for long it would appear! It`s definitely a small world!

... about 40 kilometers to the NW of town. Mud baths, massages and hot springs for small amount. We were planning on staying overnight, this being our last nite in Mendoza but they were booked and I didn't want to end up staying 2 extra nights in the area. Oh the thrills of travels. Its odd because we have (almost) all the time in the world, but it is a very large country and you simply can't see it all in a month. So today is Monday and our trip to the spa is over, we ...

... overlooked the town. Mendoza is 725m above sea level - our trip took us to the Argentine/ Chile border where a statue of Christ over looks the 2 countries at 4000m. How high is 4000m? If you start with Ben Nevis (1,344 m), place Snowdon (1,085 m) on top, put Scafell Pike (978 m) on top of that, then the Sugar Loaf in Wicklow (552 m) on top of that you would still be 41 meters short! Fortunately a bus takes you to the ...

... walked out after nearly 3 hours in there (again like the no pressurised service, they do not rush you out the door once your plate is finished), and even today I still had the glow of an exceptional meal that you would repeat again and again. As I said, its our last day in Mendoza today (we have a 12 hour coach trip to Cordoba tomorrow, and then it is 3 days on the estancia - http://estancialospotreros.com/ ), so we had a 3 vineyard wine tour around the Uco ...

... the time shaking like a leaf. He started insinuation that the bugs might have come from our bags so for his safety we decided to pack our bags and just get out! Only problem was we still had not received our washing that we handed in earlier in the day which was apparently still at his mother house. Our amigo then had no choice but to go to his mother's house wake her up and fetch our washing. While he was away were fortunately able to find a hotel that had a room ...

... mon age trop sympas: Gisela jr., qui est mariee a un francais, vit en france, parle francais et a une petite fille trop mignonne, Clara. Rocio, trop sympa et qui ne me laisse pas insensible du tout. Je devais rester 3 jours et m'eterniserai finalement 8 jours a Mendoza a faire la fete, passer du temps avec cette famille d'adoption, visiter les bodegas (fabriques de vins) locales, passer le WE chez les parents de Jorge Luis dans un petit village alentours avec une 10aines d'autres ...