After another 10 hour night bus we arrived in Mendoza early morning. We were quite excited to explore Mendoza as there was a big earthquake quite awhile ago in the 1800s that destroyed and flattened the town. Expecting to see a kind of equivalent to Napier, for some reason that was not the case. It turned out there isn't a lot to see or do unless you go at least an hour out of the city which was not ideal for us being so short on time. We had a look around and went to a few parks, as we were extremely tired with all the travelling and not staying in a bed for a few nights we settled for some mcdonalds. To our amazement we bumped into a couple of british guys we met in Iguazu which was pretty crazy. After a quick catchup and once we finished our meal we headed back to the bus terminal to return to Santiago.
The trip over the Andes was pretty amazing with incredible harsh landscape. Beautiful scenery. By the time we reached the top to cross the boarder from Argentina to Chile it was freezing! We were not prepared for that coming from 30o. Shorts and jandals are far from ideal in snowy and icy conditions. Luckily we didn't have to stick around, once we got our passports stamped and bags checked we were back on our way to Santiago.
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