Mendoza

Got into Mendoza early in the morning and at the bus station there were the usual guys offering hostels, so we took one that was 40pesos, Ruca Potu.  On first appearance the owner was very friendly but my opinion changed after reading some of the reviews of the hostel on tripadvisor.com.  These reviews were not nice to say the least.  We had no trouble there meeting other people from Ireland, New Zealand, South Korea and England.  I could well believe some of the reviews as even though the owner (Ariel) was friendly he came across as a creep.  His two sons were annoying and food had been taken from the fridge that belonged to the guests.  While in Mendoza we booked a half day wine biking tour for 120pesos and a hike, repel and hot spring trip for the next day costing 180pesos.  The wine tour was good we visited 3 vineyards and sampled 2 wines at each vineyard.  If I was to do it again I would do it cheaper getting public transport and then hiring the bike, I think you'd get to visit more vineyards.  The trek, repel and spa tour was very fun.  The hike was challenging enough, the repel was from 3 different heights (12m, 7m and 40m).  The lunch we got that was included was a sandwich with the worst meat ever but the spa (more of a water park than a spa) was great.  Different pools with varying degrees of warm water and a water slide which was great fun.  We had a good group with us meeting people from Holland, Belgium and Norway plus some of the women were fantastic looking.  We spent 3 good days in Mendoza and are going from there to Santiago de Chile.

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