December 2010
3 posts
Mendoza... where the wine flows free!
Mendoza was one of my favourite places in Argentina. Wine, steak, biking to wineries… ahh I could just move there and devote the rest of my life to becoming an official wino. Truly a wonderful little city, where the wine did in fact flow free! Our hostel was pretty nice too, and although they boasted a swimming pool which was more of an insect infested small bath tub, the backyard itself was...
The rest of Chile...
We ventured up to Santiago, Chile and spent just one night there. It was definitely incomparable to Buenos Aires and just another big city. We heard many good things about Viña del Mar, so after our brief stint in Santiago we bused it over to the Pacific Coast. There was a lot of hype surrounding this “Garden City” but frankly I found it to be a bit overrated. Our highlights from our...
Pucón... the land of the dogs
Pucón was by far my favourite part of Chile. A quaint mountainside town at the bottom of a volcano, it had everything one needed to live off love. The main highlight of our visit there was climbing the 2800 meter high snow-covered Villarrica volcano.
This was definitely the hardest thing I´ve done (WAY harder than the 40km bike ride in Bariloche!). Even though I...
