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Mendoza was a bit of a hangover from Buenos Aires, we were still recovering from the late nights and rich food and too much to drink. However we did have the most amazing seats on the bus here, they reclined so that you could just about lie totally flat - I know this is a boring detail to most of you but you just can´t imagine what a pure luxury this was for us! Are we sad?
The first day we wandered around the city and then took a trip out to a little hillock called Cerro Gloria which comemerates the Army of the Andes and their role in the independence of Chile. It was a pretty spectacular monument which was added to by the beautiful condors flying around the sky above it.
We also headed out to Maipu, one of the wine regions in Mendoza, and did a really great tour through a working winery called La Rural (we´d previously drank their St Felipe wine and it was lovely). The tour was great, the winery has been around for over 200 years so we saw how they used to make the wine with old methods and then got to see exactly how they do it nowadays. But we were shocked to learn that the poor grape pickers can expect to earn about €10 a day between two people for working from dawn to dusk!! We passed a few more wineries but the area and the countryside didn´t impress us all that much in comparison with the wine regions in New Zealand, I guess we´ve just been spoilt!
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