Yesterday I got the overnight bus from Bariloche to Mendoza- an 18 hour journey. The bus was not as good as the one from Iguazu to BA as the seats did not fully recline but the food was better. And I watched all of the first series of breaking bad!

This is the sunrise from the bus.

I arrived into Mendoza around 8am and walked to my hostel as it was only a few blocks from the bus terminal.

Almost as soon as I got there I met a lovely girl, Petra from Switzerland, and we decided to go to General San Martin Parque which is the other side of town. The park is huge – it’s kind of a mixture of Regents park and Hyde park in London.

We walked all through the park, the weather was gorgeous and around 30 degrees.

We climbed up Cerro de la Gloria to see the monumento al ejercito de los andes. As we relaxed with a coffee a group of guys on Harley Davidson’s showed up and posed for some photos.

The views from the top were ok but there was a bit of a haze or fog/smog over the city so they weren’t amazing.

We walked back a different way and stopped off for some salad and chips for lunch.

When I got back to the hostel I checked in and met another girl Anna from France. The three of us went for a few drinks and we tried a variety of different craft beers which seem to be all the rage here at the moment. Anna and I headed home and I went to bed to catch up on some sleep.

It’s nice to be back in the sunshine for a few days!