Mendoza Travel Blogs

Wine tasting is a must for any Mendoza experience, and my visit here was not going to be the exception. Since I am no wine connossieur, I decided to take the half day winery tour that included a big winery, an oil factory and a small family winery. The first stop was "Bodegas y Viñedos López" a r…

So today my Aussie friends and I took the 173 bus out to the wine country outside of Mendoza to go and tour the local wineries.  Apparently about 70% of all Argentinian wine is made in this area of the country.  When we got out there we rented a couple bikes from Mrs. Coca, a nice old lad…

so this entry has a familiar start..... overnight bus ride, tired eyes, wandering a strange city looking for a place to put my things. Well, it all worked out. I found a locker for my bag, and bed to catch up on some zzz`s. The first few days were spent going through the familiarisation phase, g…

I skipped over Mendoza like a flat stone across water. I Arrived Sunday morning off the night bus, dishevelled and a little confused as to why the sky was still pitch black just before 8am. They currently have a strange time system in place within Argentina which means that it´s two hours ahe…

We awoke to our last day in Mendoza.  We had a flight back to Buenos Aires in the afternoon.   After leaving our bags with the front desk, we headed out to walk around a little bit before we needed to head to the airport.  As soon as we walked outside, we noticed that there was …

The past two days I´ve spent in and around the Andes mountains. Yesterday we did a high mountain tour which consists of a bus ride up into the mountains. Obviously, we don´t go to the tops, but we got some good views and pictures. We got out and did a little trekking, but mostly we stayed in the …

Buenos Aires, Mendoza and Santiago

Most lovely city of Argentina, small but very friendly environment :)) And in winter it was beautiful =)

In my two week whirlwind trip to Argentina, I managed to see as many sights as one can pack in without going crazy.  Our first three days (after spending a very long day travelling from the states through BA to Mendoza) we experienced fantastic wine, sights and company.  Mendoza was a gre…

Started my trip in my hometown Cordoba. Took a 10 hr bus to Mendoza, well known for its great variety of wine, specially Malbec; from there a 12 hr bus to Bariloche. Then flew to the Glaciers National Park in Calafate. Couldnt get an airline ticket to The Southern most city in the world, Ushuaia, so I took another bus for 18 hrs to get there. NOT RECOMENDED! From there, back to Calafate, back to Buenos Aires for a day to visit some friends and back to Cordoba.

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Often times a friendly porteno has asked me what I thought of Argentina, Buenos Aires, or of portenos themselves. But yesterday as I trekked through the foothills of the Andes, our guide asked me what I think of Unitedstatesians after being in Argentina. I was suprised that he had flipped the …

Paragliding – you have to do it at least once in your lifetime because it is such a wonderful experience! So why don’t do it in Mendoza? I went paragliding with the travel agency Kahuak (www.kahuak.com.ar) for 250 Argentine Pesos which is a great price compared with what you pay in Europe f…

Sorry, had to get that in there somehow. If you hadn't guessed, it meant that we're leaving, crossing the border to Chile. But here's what happened since I last updated. On Friday night we went to the Parque Civico to a night of dinner and dancing. Well, I did the former, primarily. There were sta…

Flight departs Buenos Aires 12.40pm, and arrives in Mendoza at 2.30pm. Booked through a local travel agency, cost including all taxes $US147 (American currency acceptable) or 561 AR pesos. The garden city of Mendoza is 710kms northwest of Buenos Aires, towards the Chile border. Famous for tree-line…