Mendoza is full of extreme sports, such as water rafting, skiing, snowboarding…There are many shops selling all kinds of equipments for extreme sports.

Whitney (a snowboard instructor from Cali) from my hostel talked me into trying out paragliding and she managed to get us a good price for 195 Argentinean pesos, around $50.

We took a jeep up to the hills.

View from the window

Argentinean kid in the trunk

Getting ready

Then Jump!

In the air..

Paragliding clip
Paragliding short clip

Then took a 13 hours bus ($250 pesos, $65) to Buenos Aires at 7.15pm. The bus ride is pretty comfy, with wine, food and the chair can even go all the way down, just like a bed.

Mendoza produces around 70% of Argentine wine. Took a local bus to the suburb of Mendoza where the wineries are located.

Met 2 other asians (Dan and Davy) on the street and surprisingly they are from New York too. Haven’t seen a lot of asians so far and we went to rent a bike at Mr. Hugo ($25 argentine pesos,around $7) for the day and biked for around 18km.

We stopped by 3 wineries, did a little wine tour and tasting. Dan which is a wine enthusiast mentioned that argentine wine for the same price (15-80pesos, $4-$20) is in better quality over the french and grabbed a few bottles back.

Alvaro sent me to the bus station, he is such a great host for the passed 2 days

Left Santiago after lunch
Complemento (A chilean favourite)

and took a 7 hours bus ride (8800 chilean pesos, around $16)
passing through the Andes Mountain and the view is incredible.
Andes mountain

Short Clip of the Andes
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Arrived at Mendoza around 10pm. Met some australians and shared a cab to my hostel. The time here is one hour faster than Santiago.