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We arrived in La Rioja to discover they don`t exactly welcome tourists with open arms. We`d plannned to stay for a couple of days and do a wine tour but found there were no hostels or even cheap guest houses, no wine tours and no tourist information(it was closed and looked like it hadn´t been open for years). We quickly decided to move on to Mendoza (where they definately did wine tours) but found we had a 9 hour wait in temperatures of 42 degrees, with all of our luggage! Lets just say it was a very long day with little to do and no respite from the heat. At 11pm it was still 38 degrees! To add insult to injury I (S) had massive swollen bites from the waterfall walk and a stinking cold!. Luckily we managed to pass the time and found ourselves on our last overnight bus in South America to Mendoza.
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