Mendoza

It's been a while since I've made a post up here. A lot has been going on. My parents came down for a week and the week after, Antonia's mom came down for two weeks. I've also been pretty busy with work, spanish class, and this other website I've been working on called Online Spanish Help. Natalia my spanish teacher has been helping with it. Check it out! ;-) Also, we moved into a new apartment with our friends Adam and Rubia. I'll make a large post about that later.

Any ways, this weekend we went to Mendoza. It was beautiful. A very pleasant place. It's known for it's wine (90% of Argentine wine comes from the province), but we never made it to a winery. Instead we took a hike through the huge park they have in town and took a tour up through the Andes. Half way up through the tour however my camera ran out of batteries so I wasn't able to take pictures from the more magnificent areas. This extremely nice Greek couple took some pictures for us and as soon as they email them, I'll post more.

This was a big reservoir right aas soon as you get in the Andes.




This was the last town in the Andes before reaching Chile. It's called Uspallata. It's weird Brad Pit filmed "Seven Years in Tibet". Very beautiful.


This was a little bridge (or the reconstruction thereof) that General San Martin and the Andian Army used when fighting the Spanish during the war for independence.


In the background is the largest mountain in the western hemisphere, Aconcagua. In the foreground is a ski resort. It was too warm and dry obviously for anyone to sky.


Here's some photos of the huge park just outside of town.




There was this big hill in the middle of the park too. Here's photos from that.




Here's downtown Mendoza from the hill.


Here's downtown Mendoza from, well, downtown.


Here's the street between the park and downtown. It's filled with BMWs, mansions, luxury apartments and cafés.


This is from outside of our hostel while we were waiting for the trolley at dusk.


These are the four were on our tour. The couple on the right are the Greek couple who were nice enough to take pictures for us after my camera died. One the right, she is from Argentina and he's from Germany. This picture was taken when we just randomly ran into them while sitting at a cafe.