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This post follows on from: Chile – Atacama! Possibly no other city is as closely associated with a grape variety as Mendoza: it is the world capital of wines made from the Malbec grape. While plantings of the variety diminished in France, they burgeoned in western Argentina to the point that the Malbecs of Mendoza have a cult following. The …
This post follows on from: Cazuelas and Empanadas On the 12th of March 2017, sixteen of us started a four week tour of the southern parts of South America. Everyone in the group knew each other, all friends of ours. It was a private tour organised for us by our Melbourne travel agent, Natural Focus Safaris. It would be one …
In 2017, in a group of 16 friends, we will be visiting Argentina and Chile. After Buenos Aires, Tierra Del Fuego and Torres del Paine National Park, we will visit the ‘lake district’ of Argentina and Chile. A major town on the lakes is Bariloche, and it was there where Francis Mallmann spent his childhood. He is now arguably Argentina’s …
