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Andes Day Trip from Mendoza Including Aconcagua, Uspallata and Puente del Inca
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Andes Day Trip from Mendoza Including Aconcagua, Uspallata and Puente del Inca

By Kahuak Aventura
Recommended by 92% of travellers
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About
Mendoza lies in the foothills of the mighty Andes Mountains, along part of the Pan-American Highway. On this tour, venture out of the city for a thrilling road trip into the mountains. Along the way, stop to visit the traditional Andean villages of Potrerillos and Uspallata, admire natural wonders such as the rock bridge of Puente del Inca, and enjoy views of Aconcagua, the highest peak in the Americas.
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Ages 2-99, max of 23 per group
Duration: 12h
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Highlights
  • Spectacular views as you drive through the Andes Mountains
  • Visit traditional Andean villages: free time to shop for handicrafts
  • See Aconcagua, the highest peak in the Americas
  • Hassle-free pickup and round-trip transport from Mendoza

  • Professional guide and round trip transport .
  • Stop for lunch
  • English Assistance in the most important points (the rest of the tour will be in spanish)
  • Entry/Admission - Potrerillos Dam
What's not included
  • Breakfast and Lunch cost


Departure details
  • Traveller pickup is offered.
  • Pick up is only from hotels located in Mendoza city area. If you are staying in an Airbnb or if you didn't select hotel pick up please contact us to coordinate the nearest meeting point. Please bear in mind that it takes around 45 minutes from the arranged time to pick up every passenger of the tour. Our tour leader will personally greet you at the lobby
  • Hotel pickup is offered. View the hotel list on our checkout page to see if yours is included among the pickup points.

  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Infants must sit on laps
If you have questions about accessibility, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 5693ANDES

  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • Most travellers can participate
  • This experience requires good weather. If it’s cancelled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
  • This experience requires a minimum number of travellers. If it’s cancelled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 23 travellers

  • For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.

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Andes Day Trip from Mendoza Including Aconcagua, Uspallata and Puente del Inca price starts from €56.95. Discover and book Andes Day Trip from Mendoza Including Aconcagua, Uspallata and Puente del Inca on Tripadvisor
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Andes Day Trip from Mendoza Including Aconcagua, Uspallata and Puente del Inca cancellation policy: For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience. Discover and book Andes Day Trip from Mendoza Including Aconcagua, Uspallata and Puente del Inca on Tripadvisor
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Andes Day Trip from Mendoza Including Aconcagua, Uspallata and Puente del Inca is hosted by Kahuak Aventura. Read reviews, discover additonal experiences or contact Kahuak Aventura on Tripadvisor. Discover and book Andes Day Trip from Mendoza Including Aconcagua, Uspallata and Puente del Inca on Tripadvisor

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  • victoria_king333
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    Incredible tour
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    A must do while in Mendoza
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Maura H
2 contributions
Nov 2022 • Friends
This was the most stressful tour I’ve been on. We spent almost the entire day in a van. There were 5 stops in a 12 hour period, including lunch where there was only 1 option to eat at a chaotic buffet, and the stops at the most beautiful places were 15 minutes or less, and we literally only stopped at a faraway viewpoint to see Aconcagua from a distance for less than 10 minutes. The stops were only to “take pictures” then leave. I absolutely do not recommend this tour, unless you enjoy sitting and stressing out all day long. We also booked the tour in English as it’s our first language (even though we speak Spanish as well), and the guide talked only in Spanish for the entire day. Also, it was extremely hard to hear the guide as the microphone didn’t work hardly at all and the AC was blaring in the van. Find another way to explore the majestic Andes in Mendoza.
Written 18 November 2022
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Darren R
Connecticut347 contributions
Mar 2022
This was a great trip in every way. The scenery was stunning along the route. Our guide Marcos was knowledgeable and friendly, and spoke English very well. We enjoyed each stop, with the short hike at Aconcagua as the highlight. How can you be a beautful car ride from the highest peak in the Americas and not go take a look? The Puente del Inca is a natural bridge over a hot spring that was far better to see in person than I had expected from the pictures. It was fascinating.

We did the private trip. We saw their bus trip at a couple of stops and that looked good too, but with the weak peso right now, the convenience of the private trip was an easy and affordable choice.
Written 8 March 2022
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Hi Darren! Thank you very much for leaving your experience and trusting in us! We are very happy to know that you had a nice experience in Mendoza! For other tripadvisor users to know, Marcos is member of our permanent staff. If you want to do this activity, he may be your guide! Darren, you are always welcome!
Written 23 March 2022
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Pauline
2 contributions
Jan 2023 • Couples
We had a fantastic day with guide Federico and driver Mauricio. Great views at the dam, the lake, the mountains, Puente del Inca and as absolute topsite the view at the Aconcagua! Very well organized trip, great timing (!) from the guide and driver.
It was worth the drive. Alexander & Pauline
Written 4 January 2023
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travellingmomma1975
Dallas, TX3 contributions
Mar 2020 • Couples
I took this tour with my husband and mother-in-law. We all had the most amazing time. Our tour guide, Estoban and driver Marcella were excellent. Estoban’s knowledge of the history of the Andes and Argentina in general was just fascinating. His enthusiasm gives you chill bumps. We had several nice stops along the way and were given ample time at each place. He welcomed questions and answered each one in great detail. He did the tour in English and Spanish which was nice. He was so helpful and made sure everyone was safe and enjoyed themselves. . I highly recommend this tour!
Written 7 March 2020
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Thank you very much for let it us know about your experience! Esteban is undoubtedly a guide who loves what he does! We are very happy that you had a nice day in the mountains with our team! Hopefully we will meet again soon!
Written 26 May 2020
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Matthew
23 contributions
Just…WOW!!!! Amazing views and landscape! Everything about the day was excellent. Just can’t get over how beautiful these lands and mountains are. The photos ops are incredible!! Definitely bring a sweatshirt though at least. When you get to the top of the mountain w/ Chile & Argentina it’s windy and definitely a bit cold. Lunch was good too. I would do this tour again 100% the views are that wonderful ❤️❤️🤘🤘🤗🤗
Written 8 January 2022
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Roy Anguile-de-Ammer
1 contribution
Oct 2022
Absolutely cool experience. I like to explore on my own, I did not feel like renting a car when I was in Mendoza. There is a lot to see, even though you don't get to stay for extended times due to the amount of distance covered.
Written 28 October 2022
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Sarah
Chicago, IL14 contributions
Dec 2017 • Couples
We were looking forward to this tour from Mendoza, but it was pretty disappointing overall.

Pickup- We were told they start pick-ups at 7:30 in the city center. They arrived at our hotel at 8:05. We were a little concerned, but the hotel told us this is the normal time, so we weren't too worried. Overall pickup was fine, but could have been improved by a more exact time to pick-up at. We were the last to be picked up, so got to avoid driving all around town.

Andes mountains- I have seen a lot of the Andes from Patagonia to Ecuador, and this is probably the most boring stretch I have seen- at least during December when there is very little snow. Obviously the tour company doesn't control this, but I wouldn't recommend doing an Andes tour from Mendoza at all, at least this time of year.

Tour route- The tour drives from Mendoza for about 1.5 hours. It stops at a mini-market in Uspallata where you wait 15-20 minutes for folks to use the bathroom and buy coffee. Then it goes to a reservoir created by a dam, and stops for pictures for 15 minutes. It is an ok spot, but not great. Then the tour continues to the saddest ski resort I have ever seen- sad ugly buildings with nothing open. We stopped for 20 minutes, long enough to get bored, but not long enough to take the ski lift to the top (extra money). Then we stopped at Puente del Inca, which is a nice natural spring, worth a 5-10 minute stop. We spent 30 minutes there as our guide encouraged us to buy the junk all the vendors were selling. Then we continued to Aconcagua- where we never actually entered the park! We had a 5 minute stop along the side of the rode to take picture from a very very far distance away. To compound the problem, we were joined by 6 other tour groups so the spot was jammed with people and you could get a good picture. Last was our lunch stop close to the Chilean border, where the food was edible but overpriced with no other option as is typical on this type of tour. Then we turned around and drove 3 hours back to Mendoza. There was too much waiting and we didn't feel like we saw anything.

Guide- Our guide was terrible. The tour was a mixed group with Spanish, English, and Portuguese speakers. And our guide had to do both English and Spanish. We were the only English speakers on the tour and so the guide catered to the rest of the group more. Bilingual tours are really difficult to manage to begin with, but our guide did a particularly poor job. I understand Spanish fairly well, but my husband does not, and was fairly frustrated. The guide would point things out in Spanish, and by the time he would point them out in English, we were long past the view of whatever object. The guide was also fairly difficult to understand in English. To make matters worse, when we did understand the guide, he had no interesting information to share. He would literally share things like "Over there is a hotel" with no context, story, or info. And half of the trip he read a newspaper and didn't actually guide us at all.

Booking the tour, I expected some of the group tour annoyances like lots of bathroom breaks and bad food. But I thought we'd be rewarded by good views and interesting information. If I was doing the trip over again, I'd just book the bus from Santiago, instead of flying like we did, and skip the Andes tour. It goes the same route through Argentina and is a lot cheaper.
Written 13 December 2017
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Hello Sarah, We appreciate your time and your comment about the tour to the Andes. I would like to answer you carefully and in detail, so I will follow your script ... Pick up - If you have done a group tour before, you know that picking up each passenger at their respective hotels takes time. Today we contemplate about 45 minutes after the departure time. We work hard on this, and we believe it is better to wait in the lobby hotel, rather than having to move to a starting point, especially in these activities that start very early. The Andes Range- As you says, the scenery and the weather conditions, exceeds us. Tour Rout- I think that much of your comment remains a personal appreciation of the content of each stop. Of course we accept it and we will work to improve what can be said or done in each stop As for the Aconcagua Park and the crowd, I would like to take this opportunity to share with other readers that we offer other options to enter the Park. Due to time constraints in Alta Montaña tour, is not possible to enter to the park. I invite you to see the different options on our website kahuak.com.ar. As well as if you don’t want to share the tour with other people, we offer privet tours Guide- We apologize in the name of the guide and kahuak. Although this activity is not carried out by Kahuak, we will report your comment to the agency so they can review the situation and improve their service Best,
Written 29 May 2020
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Giovanni L
Toronto, Canada14 contributions
This tour was a highlight of our trip passing through Mendoza. The scenery was fantastic and the food at the restaurant in the mountains was better than I expected (a plus). Seeing the Inca bridge up close was amazing but that’s pretty much it. The guide did speak English but as I spoke Spanish I could easily tell the tour was one sided with lengthy, in-depth descriptions in Spanish and somewhat overview descriptions in English. My wife felt cheated and I ended up filling in the gaps.

This trip would have been a 5 if the effort was taken to ensure the ‘tour’ was equal for all by the tour guide directly.
Written 15 October 2018
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aribaas
9 contributions
Oct 2018 • Family
I booked this tour with Kahuak through Viator. I clearly asked for an English tour. The tour guide that showed up on our doorstep did not speak or understand a word of English. After 1.5 hours in a bumpy van with a guide speaking nonstop into a microphone in Spanish we asked to be let off in the Andes so we could take a taxi back to our hotel. At that point the guide asked us to wait. Half an hour later another van pulled up - this one allegedly containing a guide that spoke English. This guide was extremely rude and clearly didn't want us on her tour. She told us we had made "everyone wait just for you" and delayed the original tour we were on because we refused to go along with it. She then moved people from the back of her van to the front, forcing me and my parents (both aged 70) to sit right at the back. She spoke mostly in Spanish and very occasionally in broken English - it was very hard to understand her. The views were great but most of the day is spent in the van so if you don't have a good guide (we did not) you can have an unpleasant experience.
I would definitely recommend a trip up to the Andes but would not use Kahuak if you want an English tour.
Written 18 October 2018
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First of all, we would like to apologize for this situation Indeed, It was our mistake when booking this tour for you with our partner agency. The tour you took, wasn´t carried out by Kahuak, as we make sure to clarify in all our selling platforms, some of the activities are outsourcing. We greatly appreciate your comment as we continue working to give our passengers the best experience. We tried to solve the situation in the best possible way, unfortunately is was not enough to make your day better. We would have loved to hear about your displeasure during your stay in Mendoza, perhaps we could have made it up for you and your parents. If you ever return to Mendoza, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Written 27 May 2020
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Sahel H
12 contributions
Feb 2018 • Friends
Me and my friend booked this and thought we only would experience everything from a distance, even though we saw the pictures from other peoples experiences. But we got way more than we payed for, a good guide, an amazing experience and can't describe how breathtaking the views and environment was. A definitely must in Mendoza!
Written 9 February 2018
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