A Mendoza...

As we´ve learned on this trip... travel is slow down here and we are embracing it! We FINALLY made it to mendoza. When we originally thought about this trip, I imagined us making our way to wine country much much sooner. But such is life in South America, and we live it ;)

View from the bus crossing through the Andes. Notice our bus is passing the big rig, on the curve, before a tunnel. Yeah.


The Andes are beautiful!


Mendoza turns out is a much bigger city than we imagined, but it has beautiful tree lined streets, tons and tons of vineyards 20 mins away, and the beautiful mountains in the background. We´ve only been here a few days but love it so far. The people are super nice (I mean, how could you not be when you drink cheap wine all day!) and the possibilities for activities are endless. We think we could spend some time here biking around and drinking wine. We will make sure to post good wine recommendations as we come across them.

The city just started harvest so there are tons of people in town for Vendimia (the festival) which is all about food, wine, and dancing. They have an election for the wine queen that took place last night... we thought it would be really exciting and fun to watch,,, not so much. Well just stick to the vineyards from now on!

This place loves wine so much they even dye the water in the fountains to look like wine!!!


More to come soon...