Freitag, 27. Juni 2008

Mendoza, part II

So, now I should be studying for my last exam... (aaahh, the last one, and then my semestre is already over!!!) so again, I'm doing everything else then studying... here are first of all some more pics of Mendoza.




Around this beautiful lake I did a mountainbike tour, I did not want to take my camera with me, what I regrett now, because the landcape was really beautiful and it was a clear sunny day!



No, this helmet was not for the mountainbike tour, it was for canopying. What is canopying? -You cross a river by hanging on a cable which is spanned from one side of the river to the other...


...like this!



There was a dog, which always followed us, but as he could not cross the lake by himself, the guides, just decided to take the dog with them.



The mountain which you can see in the background is the Aconcagua, the highest mountain in Southamerica (6.962m).



...an old Inca bridge...



These are some of the guys, I did the tour to the Aconcagua with, the tour was a typical tourist tour -"here you can see this...please get out of the bus, take some photos, buy some souveiers and come back..."- but at least we were a funny group with some basilians, agentineans, canadians and US-americans. And I had to practice my spanish a lot because I was the only one of us who spoke english AND spanish, so I had to translate all the time...

Sonntag, 1. Juni 2008

Mendoza - Argentina

As I am in Chile without a student visa, I have to cross the border every 90 days, which is actually not bad because it is a good excuse to go traveling during the semestre...



The pass is quite high up in the Andens and it is freezing cold if you have to wait at the border




Plastic forks pricked into dry ground? -Modern Art!

In Argentina, the cars are definitely more stylish than in Chile!


Visiting one of the countles bodegas is a musst if you are in Mendoza. But of course only visiting a winery would be a bit boring if there wasn't also a wine tasting...


OK, maybe not like this...



And it's not true that you can get only stake in Agentina. We had lots of vegetables and as much wine as we wanted :-)


Obvious that I'm standing on a big hill?


Obvious that I'm waring some strange protection stuff?


Obvious, that I'm tied to another guy with a biiiiiig bag?


Yeaaah, I'm flying!!!


Although I wasn't in the air for too long, it was great, and I'm already looking forward to doing parachute jumping in Buenos Aires!