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try's only organic sparkling wine (champagne) and other wine. The whole process
- apart from inserting the cork in bottles - is done by hand. Tours (in Spanish only)
take you through every step of the process.
Making your way back out to RN40, flag down a 24 bus, which will take you back
to the bus terminal in San Juan.
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Around San Juan
Only 18km west of San Juan, the 32 km sq
Dique Ullum
is a center for nautical sports:
swimming, fishing, kayaking, waterskiing and windsurfing (though no rental equipment
is available). Balnearios (beach clubs) line its shores, and hanging out for a day in the
sun is part of being in San Juan. At night, many of the balnearios function as dance clubs.
Bus 23 from Av Salta or Bus 29 from the San Juan bus terminal via Av Córdoba both go
hourly to the dam outlet.
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Valle de Calingasta
The Calingasta Valley is a vast smear of scenic butter cradled between the Andes and the
rumpled, multicolored precordillera, and is one of the most beautiful regions in both San
Juan and Mendoza provinces.
With the completion of two new reservoirs, the spectacular cliffside RP12 is now
closed. Most maps will show the old road, but drivers have to take RP5 north to
Talacasto, then the RP149, which snakes around west and then south to Calingasta.
DIFUNTA CORREA
Legend has it that during the civil wars of the 1840s Deolinda Correa followed the
movements of her sickly conscript husband's battalion on foot through the deserts
of San Juan, carrying food, water and their baby son in her arms. When her meager
supplies ran out, thirst, hunger and exhaustion killed her. But when passing mulet-
eers found them, the infant was still nursing at the dead woman's breast. Com-
memorating this apparent miracle, her shrine at Vallecito is widely believed to be
the site of her death.
