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Mendoza, Upsallata and Barreal Thefletchers's photos around Mendoza, Argentina (barreal route)

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Entry from: Mendoza, Argentina
Entry Title: Mendoza, Upsallata and Barreal

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After Puerto Madryn we should really have continued south further into Patagonia.. but we heard on the grapevine that the weather is cold cold cold down south.. including recent reports of snow.. so we opted to high tail it up to Mendoza and make the most of the sunshine. So back on the bus for 20 hours and we woke up to views of glorious vineyards with the backdrop of the Andes as we approached Mendoza.

We scooted straight into a hostel called Casa Pueblo.. a little rustic hostel with a very Argentinian feel. We had a day or 2 to relax and explore the city.. Bruce's gout was continuing to play up so we tried to take it a bit slowly with a nice day in the park and not to much racing around.

We then decided to hire a car and explore the province (which is huge). The mineral water in this region is called Villavicencio which is produced up in the mountains and the bottle depicts an old 1930s hotel which is now derelict, so we hit the road and drove into the mountains. It was a spectacular drive.. and we really felt like we were exploring. The hotel was amazing. you cant go in but it has a charm about it of days gone past and amazing elegance that it must have hosted. Its nestled in the mountains, miles from anywhere so we wandered round and itched to go inside but its all boarded up and therefore all the mysterious. It would have made an amazing wedding location with the quaint little chapel nextdoor. We stopped for a cuppa just by the hotel at the last sign of civilisation for a fair while and then embarked on the 3 hour drive which took us high up into the mountains on a dirt road, via 365 hairpin bends and into the clouds. We saw wild llamas roaming the mountains and little other signs of life. There were old disused mines, huge skies and amazing cloud formations. We left the clouds at the top and saw the old samaritans road marked with a line of crosses and headed down into the valley towards Upsallata where we intended to find a place to stay.

The landscape was so dramatic.. huge rocky mountains all around.. bright sunshine and sweltering heat on the dusty roads.. and then in the valley a pocket of poplar trees providing the windbreak for the small town of Upsallata. This is where they filmed Seven Years in Tibet.. and we searched for accommodation to find most of it was taken with another film crew making another film. I was dying to ask if anyone famous was around but my spanish didnt quite extend that far...

Eventually we settled into a cabana owned by a Argentinian horse breeder. The cabanas were in the middle of his field looking directly onto the Andes. His horses, dogs and geese roamed around and it was heaven. We had a few sundowners and crashed.

The next day we got back on the road and headed to Barreal.. a small town we had been recommended 100kms on dirt track from Upsallata. We started on the drive and encountered dirt track road works which were a bit of a mission.. then we just drove and drove and drove some more. It was flat.. scorching.. dusty and surrounded by huge rocky mountains either side of the expansive plains. About 1.5 hours in we wondered what on earth we were doing, but about an hour later we pulled into the sleepy, shady, leafy town of Barreal and it was well worth the drive. We had been recommended a hotel called La Querencia and after much driving around the dusty lanes and enquiriing we finally found it. Sadly it was full but we took the opportunity to sit on their veranda looking at the Andes for a sundowner. It was about 7pm and blistering hot still. It really was a beautiful place. We headed back to our hostel which was very nice and very empty and finally went out in search of food at about 10pm.

Sadly the next day Bruce woke up in excruciating gout pain in his knee. We decided to head onto San Juan to get back to Mendoza and try and have his knee sorted out as we were both worried about his ability to ...
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Photos from this trip:
1. Skies en route to Mendoza
2. Villavincencio Hotel
3. Hairpin bend road to Upsallata
4. Samarians road to Upsallata
5. Bruce's favourite rock..
6. Upsallata poplar avenue
7. The view from our cabana
8. Bruce with Muppet our adopted dog for the night
9. Aconcagua
10. Aconcagua Cemetry
11. Sundowners at La Querencia
12. Puncture en route to San Juan

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Los Caminos Antiguos is a scenic highway passes thru the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. It passes thru the Sangre de Cristo Mountain range, viewing the Blanca Peak and Crestone Peak, all higher than14,000 ft. I drove thru this scenic byway while visiting the Great Sand Dunes National Park in May, 2015.

Mountaineering and bicycle touring in the Andes 2009

Obrazki z wyjazdu w argentyńskie Andy w 2009 r. Trzymiesięczna rowerowo-górska podróż poprowadziła mnie ze stolicy Chile do Argentyny przez kilka z najwyższych szczytów andyjskich i rejon Puna de Atacama, a zakończyła się zamknięciem pętli w miejscu startu. Razem około 3000 km z buta i na rowerze. Podziękowania za wsparcie Odysei Andyjskiej 2009 dla Extrawheel, Crosso i Spot.
Grają Alians i Sarancza. Więcej na

Some pictures from the 2009 trip to the Argentinian Andes. A three months bicycle touring/mountaineering trip had brought me from the capital of Chile to Argentina through some of the highest peaks in the Andes and the region of Puna the Atacama and came to finish in the place of start. All in all about 3000 km on bicycle and my own legs. Thanks to Extrawheel, Crosso and Spot for their support of The Andean Odyssey 2009. Music by Alians and Sarancha.
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