Ports of Call Chile and Argentina Wine Package #1 - (12D/11N)
Santiago, Chile
Mendoza, Argentina
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Santiago, Chile
Santiago, a capital city of almost 6 millions people, will surprise its visitors with its aspect of a modern metropolis, numerous buildings and skyscrapers that have been built in the last 15 years, due to an exceptional economical growth. The downtown area of Santiago has many historic buildings, museums and parks: Bellas Artes museum, Precolombino museum, Natural History museum and some old constructions such as "La Moneda" (government palace), The Cathedral, Central Market, Church of San Francisco and the Municipal Teather.
Mendoza, Argentina
The city is located in a desert plain that dominates almost the whole county. Mendoza is able to manufacture an oasis of great beauty and fertility amid an arid atmosphere. The inhabitants has an enormous conscience of the value that the water and the trees have in their lifes. Taking advantage of their proximity with the mountain range, they take the thawing water and used it by drive her by means of canals until the city. The sidewalks of Mendoza are characterized by the “canaletas”, the trees that flank them and the luster of the tiles that seem recently waxed. But the most interesting thing is that Mendoza is a city rebuilt from ashes. Still before the economic growth of the county, an earthquake began and destroyed the old city almost completely, to such point that once redrawn and reconstructed, for many years Mendoza called itself the new city. The main activity of the county is the cultivate the wine, that is to say, the cultivation of the vine to achieve a very characteristic wine of the region. The Mendoza wines enjoy great international prestige and they are exported everywhere. Recently a Mendoza cellar won the prize for the best wine in the world at a French exhibition. Mendoza is known as "the earth of the good sun and of the good one he came", but it is also orderly, kind people's earth and with a great responsibility to take care of the place where they live.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Benos Aires is a cosmopolitan city and it is characterized by the big contrasts among the different neighborhoods that form it. It has an intense cultural life that is reflected in the numerous artistic shows that offer, ideals for the tourist that looks for to know it from their roots and more primitive customs. Buenos Aires are also the city of Gardel, of Jorge Luis Borges, of Diego Maradona and of the great composer and teacher of the bandoneón, Astor Piazzola. Their inhabitants, denominated "Buenos Aires" for the great port influence that helped vastly to the development of the city, they arrived of all the points of the country or they are descending of European. The buildings of century principle reflect the desire of an entire generation that wanted to place then to the country among the world powers of that. Their parks, their fairs, their theaters and bookstores; soccer stadiums, museums and coffees... they grant him a colorful inigualable. Buenos Aires contain neighborhoods of low houses with gardens and wide sidewalks; old neighborhoods with conventillos; luxurious neighborhoods with mansions of styles refined in the neighborhood of the Recoleta; big avenues and six terminals of train of great architectural value... The list continues and it is endless. Buenos Aires is difficult to describe, difficult to explain and impossible to embrace. To stop next to the mythical Shaft, in the intersection of the avenues 9 of Julio and Currents can be the ideal place to begin the great adventure of knowing Buenos Aires.
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