Mendoza, Argentina

Hey Guys,

since I don't have school anymore I finally have time to write about my trip to Mendoza...

Last Friday (28th October) four of my friends and me took a Bus to Mendoza, which is a town in Argentina close to the border to Chile. We left at 1:30 pm and got there at about 10:30 pm. The border was really busy because it was a holiday weekend in Chile...so we had to wait there about three hours. When we finally got to our hostel, we just left our stuff in our room and went out to get some food. Although it was already 1 am we easily found a restaurant that would serve us food. There were still so many people on the street and so much going on that we didn't realize how late it was. We finished our late dinner at 3 am and went back to the hostel and in our bads. This is one thing I really like about South America...you would never find a restaurant that would serve food until 3 o'clock in the morning in Germany; well, except for McDonalds but you can't qualify this as a restaurant ;)

The next day we spent a relaxing day in the center of Mendoza. We went to the antique Market, the park, restaurants and my favorite --> the market with hand-made jewelry, bags, shoes and other things. 

waiting at the border

the park, only 3 minutes from our hostel

the market with handmade things

 On Sunday we attended the Rafting tour of the hostel. It was fun but the rafting tour could have been a little bit more crazy and exciting ;) When we came home we planned on going out and meet some hot argentinian guys ;) but somehow we all ended up sleeping until the next morning. Hahaha!

On Monday our little group split up. Yannick, Martha and I went to the huge park of Mendoza, which is also the biggest in whole South America. We almost got lost while we were trying to find the University :D but since Yannick and I have a good sense of orientation we managed to get back on track.

One weird thing happened that day: Martha, Yannick and I were just taking pictures of the beautiful fountain in the park when a guy asked if we could take a picture. We thought he wanted us to take a picture of him in front of the fountain but unfortunatly what he really wanted was a picture with the two blond girls standing next to it--> Martha and I :D and that wasn't the last time that would happen to us...last week in a Club some guys asked the same thing. I hope this isn't getting normal.

The last day I went shopping with Kimberly and Nevena and enjoyed our last day in the park of Mendoza. Our bus left at 10:30 pm and arrived at about 5 am in Santiago.

With two hours of sleep Martha and me went to school the next morning. After finishing class at 5 pm I went home and slept ;)

That was all about my 4-day weekend in Mendoza. A very good little relaxing break from the busy life in Santiago.