Honeymoon Day 6: Mendoza to Bariloche

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Our room at Estancia Peuma Hue. The name, in a mix of Spanish and native Mapuche, meaning something like “Ranch of Dreams,” or “Sweet Dreams Ranch.” It fits.
After four days of ribeyes, Malbecs, and empanadas, we are now at a plant-based, gluten-free health resort. It’s time.
A quick post-lunch kayak tour around Lago Gutiérrez. Once we established that I should steer (and paddle), it was smooth sailing.

We were sad to leave Mendoza this morning, but we both agreed it was the perfect amount of time; another full day of food and wine would have been too much. Dinner at Brindillas was the perfect cap to that leg of the trip. From the plane we could see Aconcagua, South America’s highest peak.

We found an amazing coffee shop in Bariloche, then drove to the Estancia and have been appreciating the setting, right in the middle of Argentina’s oldest national park, Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapi. Tomorrow we’re looking forward to hiking in the morning and horseback riding in the afternoon.

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