Saturday, November 17, 2007

Mendoza

We traveled with Roger and Debbie to the "wine region" of Argentina. We took a bus for 14 hours across Argentina toward the Andes Mountains. We stayed in a beautiful guest-house on a property called Casas Glebinas, shown in the picture. It was located in a small wine-making town called Chacras de Cobria. The casa had 2 baths and 2 bedrooms and all original pieces of artwork. The property had a total of 5 homes, 3 of which they presently rent out to guests, and it had wonderful gardens and a swimming pool. Mendoza is lined on the west by the Andes Mountains and is located in the shadow of the highest point called Aconcagua at 6,959 meters above sea level. The city of Mendoza is filled with tree-lined streets that form a canopy over everything. The flowers were in bloom, so the city and its large park were very green. We got a recommendation for dinner one evening from the owners of our guest-house. The set up a reservation for us at an incredible restaurant where there were 5 courses. It started with a vegetable, meat, cheese, and bread buffet and followed with 4 more courses including dessert. There is a photo of the spread of food that we had. It was very delicious!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

oh! that looks amazing. i wish i was there!

k