The road to Tunuyan

We've just got off the bus from Mendoza to Tunuyan and arrived at the hotel that we're staying at for the next two nights, Posada del Jamon (Ham Inn).

The trip only takes one hour and the views are incredible as the road runs in parallel with the Andes. 

Out of the window on the left hand side of the bus the land is completely flat and all that you can see is sand and scrub like areas with low green/grey bushes and lots of power lines but what a difference when you looked out of the window on the right hand side of the bus!

In the foreground the same sand and then scrub land but beyond, the Andes - completely covered in snow and looking spectacular. It's hard to believe as it's 22C (70F) as I write but yesterday there was so much snow that the road over the Andes that we had travelled from Chile to Argentina on on Sunday and the border crossing were closed.

The sky is a pale duck egg blue, to the left wispy cirrus clouds and to the right, over the Andes there are occasional puffs of fluffy white cloud sitting above the peaks. 

On the journey I saw a bird of prey (sorry David & Anne, I couldn't identify it) swoop in mid air and take a much smaller bird out of the sky - amazing.

Every mountain top that we can see from our hotel is covered in snow, each one looking like the Paramount Pictures logo.

Another room with view.....

So I guess we could be closer to having a white Christmas than I thought......

Raine x