The 2 hour bus ride from heavenly Tafi Del Valle nestled high in a mountain-rimmed basin to the lower elevation of a valley floor that stretched along the eastern side of a mountains range was breathtaking! So green and fertile! And in the distance across the valley floor you could see white snow-capped peaks! Imore …
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Even the best-laid plans! You know how it goes – you plan one thing, but something else ends up happening! I had thought I was going to a town called La Rioja. I had researched it in my guidebooks, made hostel reservations and had purchased my bus ticket which left at 3:30 a.m. (!) frommore …
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Our tour didn’t get started til mid-afternoon. The guides had to wait for enough people to sign up as the drive is an hour and a half to the park, so to make it affordable for them they need to have at least three people. We ended up with four, thank goodness, and off wemore …
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The tour transport car pulled up to the hostel door at 8:30 a.m. and we were off for the hour and a half drive north to Parque Nacional Talampaya! It was a gorgeous day and a beautiful drive through mostly dry desert country! The outside area of the Visitor’s Center was quite attractive. The leftmore …
Read moreIt was a two hour ride to the town of San Juan directly north of Mendoza where I then had a three hour wait in the terminal for my ongoing bus to San Agustin de Valle Fertil. The ride from Mendoza to San Juan offered views of the highest mountain in the North and Southmore …
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