Preview of Diannemurray’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Puerto Ayora, Ecuador Entry Title: “About to cruise the Galapagos Islands” Entry: “Mon 2 May 2005 Mendoza(Argentina) Having missed out on the preferred hostel the night before, we have our bread roll and croissant breakfast and head out to look at the town and check out the Hostel International Mendoza (IYHA). Walk via the main square, Plaza Independencia, and the tourist information kiosk, where we provide some English language training for the 3 girls there, and manage to pick up maps of the town and the Maipu wine producing area, plus some bus numbers. The hostel is a fair way from town, but no further than our current place, and looks pretty lively, so we book in for Tuesday night, and carry on down Via Espana to the main road to the Park San Martin, one of the highlights of the town. Using two maps and the compass,we make a turn to the west, and walk up what looks like the road up beside the ornamental lake, but it takes us further into a pretty depressed combination of wasteland and low income housing. We think-”so much for what they call parks around here, and head for a main road where there is less chance of getting mugged. We seem to be walking a long way uphill to find a lake, so, as a last resort, we look at the compass and the map together, and decide we are 90 degrees off …