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In Mendoza, there are two types of tourists: wine lovers and crusty hikers. Being both, we spent a bit of time alternating between our fancy pants and dirty socks. Here are a handful of our favorite stops along the way.
We hadn’t planned to visit Santa Cruz. For the weekend at hand, we’d wanted to camp at Altos de la Cantillana, a nature reserve south of Santiago, but we arrived only to find it closed until April due to fire danger. So we came up with Plan B: head over to wine country.
When you look at Uruguay on a map, it barely registers between giants Argentina and Brazil. But this small country packs a cultural punch — from ramshackle seaside towns to sprawling centuries-old vineyards. “Cada parte es única,” a shopkeeper in Carmelo told me. After an 11-day road trip around Uruguay, I had to agree: Each area is unique.