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Day 25 – Buenos Aires – Recoleta & Don Julio

Today we had another day planned to explore Buenos Aires and we first decided to go to Recoleta the cemetery and visit it in the area. We walked around the many graves and tried to find the grave of a friend of my dad‘s father, but unfortunately he didn’t find anything after visiting the cemetery. […]

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Day 24 – Buenos Aires – La Boca & San Telmo

Today we woke up early and grab breakfast before it was time to go to the airport for the next leg of our journey. Unfortunately unlike our parents we didn’t have a direct flight to Buenos Aires and they said had to take a flight to Santiago and then wait there for a couple hours […]

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Day 23 – Mendoza to Buenos Aires

Today we woke up early and grab breakfast before it was time to go to the airport for the next leg of our journey. Unfortunately unlike our parents we didn’t have a direct flight to Buenos Aires and they said had to take a flight to Santiago and then wait there for a couple hours […]

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Day 22 – Mendoza chill day

Today we didn’t have any big plans, so we went to grab lunch where we had empanadas and then walked around the city taking a walk to park Saint Martin In the evening we had found this restaurant that we wanted to try so we walked there and had massive portions and felt a bit […]

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Day 21 – Horse Back Riding Mendoza

Today after having grab breakfast, we decided to go shopping for snacks and walk to carefour to get some delicious passion fruit tea and then walked to a local restaurant, which was out of the way to try a choripan, a local Argentinian hotdog. The cherry pen we got there was definitely an elevated version […]

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Day 20 – Mendoza Wine Tour

Today we went down for breakfast and had breakfast decided to organise some activities for the following days including horse riding and a wine tour after talking with reception we figured out a good wine to to do that afternoon organised everything and decided to go to lunch to get some good empanadas.  We took […]

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Day 19 – Back to Aconcagua

Today we got up at nine and enjoyed breakfast whilst planning what we would be doing today considering that most things are closed due to the fact that it was the 1st of January. We decided that it was worth going back to exactly where we had started to show the parents at Aconcagua because […]

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Day 18 – Return to Mendoza

Today, we woke up on the same mattress in Penitentes in the same apartment we had stayed in two weeks earlier. It was clear the place hadn’t been cleaned in all that time—I even found the same Aqua Pure tablet I had dropped during our previous stay. We went down for breakfast and loaded all […]

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Day 17 – Horcones Valley

Today, we woke up early at 7 a.m. and quickly gathered our belongings to leave the dorm tent, avoiding further interaction with the eccentric person sharing the space with us, who bizarrely tried to buy our sleeping bags as we were packing. After breakfast, we attempted to call the restaurant to modify our New Year’s […]

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Day 16 – Campo Colera to Plaza de Mulas

Today, we planned to sleep in and have breakfast at 10 a.m., but that proved easier said than done. The wind howled all night, rattling the tent, and my sleeping bag—damaged with a cut—released feathers everywhere, causing me to cough constantly. By 8 a.m., we gave up on trying to sleep and got up to […]

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