Three days of adventures in Mendoza
This week we got up to a lot of adventures and of course things go wrong, but if things didn’t go wrong, it wouldn't be an adventure. Stick around to find out what happened.
This week we hired a car for three days and so we actually had freedom of where we wanted to go. So, we decided that on the first day we wanted to go to the hot springs. It was call Termas Cacheuta and it’s about an hour drive from Mendoza city. It was quite busy, but we still fully enjoyed ourselves. All the BBQs were going, it was just a really good vibe. We ended up having a big meat dish and yes, I do know that it was a bit touristic but sometimes it’s okay to do touristic things. We are traveling with the mind set take only photos and leave only footprints.
The next day which was Thursday we went to Villavicencio Park were some of us did the outdoor adventures. Like the Zipline and the Zipline Extreme, I was not feeling it that day to jump of a cliff but everyone else did something. I was happy to keep my feet on the ground and take photos.
The last day of our adventure streak we decided to go white water rafting, and it was so much fun! We were on our way there when we go stuck on Route 7 (which is the main highway) because there was a car on fire, so we had to find another way around as the traffic was at a standstill. This meant we were late, and we missed our original time slot, but something we have learned about Argentina is that people are really easy going. We eventually got there, and they were super chill about it and got us on the next bus out. There were these inflatable rafts, and we had to carry the really heavy boat down a steep hill with rocks to reach the river. It was really hard, and I felt like I just slid down and had to let go of the boat because it felt like I was trying to walk down a cliff in a bubble suit, with my life jacket on. Our instructor was really nice and taught us how to do everything.
A cultural difference I noted was that in Australia when you do any activities that has the slightest chance of dying, you must fill in a bunch of paperwork to say that you will not sue them if you die -which is a little hard to sue them if your dead. Another thing they do if it is a water activity, they will always ask if you can swim.
In Argentina, however, they throw you in the boat don’t ask you if you can swim and start the safety briefing once we are already in the boat floating down the river! Nevertheless, I felt like I was in safe hands the whole time – also because you can tell these instructors have rafted this river hundreds of times before.
It kind of looked like this although this is not my photo
Stay tuned for my next blog post…¿Que es a Guanaco?
