After a long flight to BA, we were picked up by Giselle’s cousins and spent some days recovering at their campo in Lujan.
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From Lujan we drove to La Consulta, Valle de Uco southwest of Mendoza and stayed in style at a beautiful airbnb.
![Our Airbnb near La Consulta](http://www.buckaroobinaries.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20220208_204708-scaled.jpg)
Valle de Uco is a world famous wine growing region and of course we visited a few bodegas. Most impressive to me of the many impressive bodegas was Bodega Zuccardi Valle de Uco.
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![Where Zuccardi Concreto Malbec is made](http://www.buckaroobinaries.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20220210_195715-scaled.jpg)
From La Consulta, we made day trips to Cajon de Arenales, maybe 20 minutes away.
![Arenales](http://www.buckaroobinaries.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DJI_0652-1024x576.jpg)
We managed to get two days of climbing in with Gustavo Lopez-Lopez, guide and local Arenales expert.
![Gustavo, Our Guide at Arenales](http://www.buckaroobinaries.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20220207_145111-scaled.jpg)
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On our second day at Arenales, we hiked up to Sector Jardin Japones. This sector is a very beautiful, secluded part of Arenales with water, shade and many quality routes of all grades, both trad and sport.
![Climbing an unknown 5.8 at Jardin Japones](http://www.buckaroobinaries.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DJI_0683-4-1024x576.jpg)
Drone footage by Juan Manuel Ondetti.
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Below Giselle on Day 1 on some of the beautiful, featured granite– the particular sector escapes me at the moment 🙂
![Giselle climbing at Arenales, febrero 7, 2022. Photo by me :)](http://www.buckaroobinaries.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/20220207_124528-scaled.jpg)
After Arenales and many other adventures, we drove north to Potrerillos, along the Mendoza river. The 5 minute approach to Sector Conglomerado was a nice change from the 30-45 minutes approaches we had at Arenales. Sector Conglomerado at Potrerillos is a bolted sport climbing crag with many short, well protected routes. The rock is very similar to the conglomerate of Pinnacles, California.
![Giselle climbing "Monarquia" at Sector Conglomerado, Potrerillos, Argentina.
Photo by Mariana Pacheco-Ondetti](http://www.buckaroobinaries.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/IMG-20220221-WA0092.jpg)
![Los Gatos](http://www.buckaroobinaries.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20220213_190934-scaled.jpg)
Day trip near La Consulta, canyoneering while the water was low.
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We also took a day to visit the parque and hiked the Aconcagua touristo trail.
![Aconcagua](http://www.buckaroobinaries.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/20220215_141517-scaled.jpg)
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