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jueves, 23 de diciembre de 2010

ACONCAGUA

Aconcagua is the highest mountain in the Americas at 6962 m (22841 ft). It's located in Mendoza (Argentina), near the Chile border. Aconcagua is a gigantic mass of rock, not picturesque in the traditional Alpine sense, but magnificent by its size alone. It dominates the sky west of Santiago, Chile's capital city, and is visible from the Pacific coast, 100 miles away. Though the mountain's summit crest and radiating ridges are largely windswept free of snow, large glaciers fill the valleys on all but the southern and western flanks. Some climbing routes are relatively straightforward hikes to the top, but this is the very reason that Aconcagua has one of the highest mountain death tolls in the world: It is a popular mountain, and many of its climbers tend to move too swiftly up the mountain, with little respect for the elevation or the weather, which on Aconcagua can quickly become severe.

There're lots of hikkings available, from one to seven days depending of course on your physical condition. We'd glad to help you to find a suitable trek for you! 

jueves, 16 de diciembre de 2010

PUENTE DEL INCA! / INCA BRIDGE



Puente del Inca is a geological formation located in full Cordillera de los Andes, to 2729m on the level of the sea. It is a natural bridge formed by the action of the mineral thermal waters, with great quantity of sulphur, to it the wonderful colors owe. Formed on the Rio Caves, with waters to 35ºc, though nowadays the temperature is minor. In 1925 I construct him a luxurious hotel in which every room tape-worm his thermal bath, it was destroyed in 1965 by an avalanche. His name comes from the legend, a long before the arrival of the Spaniards. The legend tells that a great chief Inca had a child with paralysis, and any kind of healing could cure him. The sages told him that in distant lands in the south was a place of healing waters. In a caravan and exhausted after months, they came to this place, they could watch the water gushing from the ground but couldn't get it, because they were separated by a rushing river. His warriors, without hesitation, embraced each other forming a human bridge. The Inca step above with his son in arms up to the terma finding longed cure. When looking back, his warriors were petrified and constituted what is now the famous Puente of the Inca.
Puente del Inca is a must if you come to Mendoza! Hope you can visit us soon and let us organize your visit to such a beautfil place :)