Barreal

Barreal is a pretty small town way out in the middle of nowhere. It is a pretty pleasant place though. People from San Juan (Argentina) drive out here for weekends. Mostly they just hang out and enjoy a break from the city and the nice views.






We headed back the same way we came and may have passed 2 or 3 cars the whole way back to Upsallata.








We headed back to Mendoza and camped just outside of town near the winery areas. They had a little farm there with nandus there:


The next day we went out to try to go wine tasting. It is a pain in the ass in Mendoza though. You can't just drop in, you have to make reservations. We ended up making it to one winery tour. Nieto Seniter is apparently the oldest winery in Mendoza. It was a cool tour because they were harvesting grapes.



We went back and stayed in Mendoza again and signed up for a winery tour for the next day. It is pretty much the only way to conveniently do it, and it was fun and easy.




We went to four wineries. Then we went to this place for a terrific lunch. There were just tons of different kinds of food and also all you can drink wine.

They let us stay there for a couple hours to eat and drink.


That evening we took a night bus to Salta. Fully reclining seats are terrific.


Salta is nice. We really liked it there.



If you end up in Salta make sure you go to the mummy museum. It was probably the best museum we went to on this trip. They found mummies on top of a 20,000 foot mountain nearby that were really well preserved. They don't let you take pictures of them, but they do let you take pictures of the stuff they found with them. Here are one mummy's shoes:


and llama figurines:


Some of those are made out of gold.






This isn't the best picture, but the mountains here are just enromous. It is hard to believe how high they look from Salta. Salta is around 4000 feet, and these mountains are around 20,000 feet.



I'll have more about the Salta area later.

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