Room With a View: Room with a View: Room 4 in Luján de Cuyo from Condé Nast Traveler on Concierge.com: "In piscina veritas. The truth will surely come to you on your private terrace at this oenophiles' retreat. Adobe-toned casitas like yours give a hint of Santa Fe to the Cavas Wine Lodge's 35-acre grounds, just outside Mendoza, while the central patio with its tiled fountain adds a Moorish touch. At some point in your day, big decisions will have to be made: Café con leche before a soak in your claw-foot tub? Or perhaps a wine bath and grape-seed exfoliation? Twilight's decision will be whether it's cool enough on the rooftop lounge to light the fireplace while you dine on grilled Argentine rib-eye with chimichurri sauce. Just don't ask anyone to cry for you."
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Showing posts with label Argentina. Show all posts
Room with a View: Room 4 in Luján de Cuyo
Room With a View: Room with a View: Room 4 in Luján de Cuyo from Condé Nast Traveler on Concierge.com: "In piscina veritas. The truth will surely come to you on your private terrace at this oenophiles' retreat. Adobe-toned casitas like yours give a hint of Santa Fe to the Cavas Wine Lodge's 35-acre grounds, just outside Mendoza, while the central patio with its tiled fountain adds a Moorish touch. At some point in your day, big decisions will have to be made: Café con leche before a soak in your claw-foot tub? Or perhaps a wine bath and grape-seed exfoliation? Twilight's decision will be whether it's cool enough on the rooftop lounge to light the fireplace while you dine on grilled Argentine rib-eye with chimichurri sauce. Just don't ask anyone to cry for you."
Stay List: Argentina
The 2011 Stay List is a wanderlust-inspiring roundup of unique hotels in South America that have an authentic sense of place, that are sustainably operated, and that have strong roots in local communities. Today we check in to Argentina.
Nipebo Aike, Patagonia
Overlooking the southern arm of Lago Argentino, this Los Glaciares National Park farm in the Andes is a place where cows and sheep roam and provide. Gauchos on horseback tend to things. Visitors can horseback ride and hike; also an option is farm work (for instance, sheep herding and shearing, rounding up cattle). Accommodations are in what was the home of a Croatian immigrant pioneer at the turn of the 20th century. It is rustic and also refined. Come breakfast: fresh orange juice, fresh-from-the-cow milk, just-baked bread and scones. Dramatic hikes along the glaciers (not at all difficult), with viewing platforms along the way. Gift shop spotlights items made locally: ponchos, sweaters, silver and leather handicrafts. True Patagonia an hour's drive from town (El Calafate). 10 rooms; from $360.
From the Proprietor
"The imposing view of the Andes mountain range is ever-present, while the estancia's everyday life carries on and it is common to see the men riding past herding the cattle and/or sheep and disappearing over the horizon."
Overlooking the southern arm of Lago Argentino, this Los Glaciares National Park farm in the Andes is a place where cows and sheep roam and provide. Gauchos on horseback tend to things. Visitors can horseback ride and hike; also an option is farm work (for instance, sheep herding and shearing, rounding up cattle). Accommodations are in what was the home of a Croatian immigrant pioneer at the turn of the 20th century. It is rustic and also refined. Come breakfast: fresh orange juice, fresh-from-the-cow milk, just-baked bread and scones. Dramatic hikes along the glaciers (not at all difficult), with viewing platforms along the way. Gift shop spotlights items made locally: ponchos, sweaters, silver and leather handicrafts. True Patagonia an hour's drive from town (El Calafate). 10 rooms; from $360.
From the Proprietor
"The imposing view of the Andes mountain range is ever-present, while the estancia's everyday life carries on and it is common to see the men riding past herding the cattle and/or sheep and disappearing over the horizon."
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