The morning of our journey to Argentina was fine - a relief as the pass through the Andes had been shut over previous days due to bad weather. What an amazing journey - the road joining Chile with Argentina snakes through the Andes and provides incredible views of snow-dusted mountains and streams running through lush valleys. The best bus journey we have experienced by far!
We spent only one night in Mendoza, Argentina before leaving for Malargue - our base for snowboarding - at 6am the following morning. We created much confusion at the bus station by arriving at what we thought was 6am and insisting we had tickets for the bus leaving at that moment. It was an exhausting, infuriating and embarrassing 10 minutes later that it finally dawned on us that we had our time zones confused and that it was actually 5am. We left very confused bus station personnel in Mendoza!
We finally arrived in Malargue, a small Argentinean town and an hour from Las Lenas, Argentina's premier skiing and snowboarding resort. We checked into the
Microtel Inn where we had 7 nights booked (through a travel agency or it is impossible to get accommodation during peak time). Finally, somewhere we are staying at long enough to hang our clothes up!
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