Mendoza is a great weekend trip. We took a 6 hr busride between Santiago & Mendoza thru one of the most beautiful (& treacherous!) stretches in the world – thru the Andes mountains. Beautiful…

When we got there we found a couple great tours through our hostel: one day we went paragliding off of some of the Andes mountains – you literally run and jump off the side of a mountain (you have a pilot strapped to you). The second day we took a trailride thru some low parts of the Andes- perfectly picturesque with some gauchos as our guides!

Check out the huge Parque San Martin… on Sunday morning we found a few hundred people around a stage in the middle of the park—free aerobics!

Oh, and find a $6 all you can eat steak & every-food-you-can-dream-of buffet… you will waddle out of there hours later…!