Luxury Hotels Atlas / Places / Argentina / Mendoza / San Ignacio Estancia Andina
San Ignacio Estancia Andina
Mendoza, Argentina · Independent · Accessible Luxury
Four ensuite rooms, ten guests at most, and every piece of furniture repaired and painted by the owners: San Ignacio Estancia Andina is a family posada at 1,500 meters in the red precordillera, about twenty-five minutes above Mendoza. Spring water comes off the mountain, llamas graze the dry ground, and solar heaters run the house. Horses and footpaths climb toward condors and black-chested buzzard-eagles, and the fire might be asado or goat cooked over dried llama dung, with Mendoza wine.
- 4 rooms
- Neighborhood: Colonia Papagayos
About San Ignacio Estancia Andina
- The owners repaired and painted the furniture themselves, and the house runs on solar power and a solar water heater.
- Guests meet the owners at Mendoza's Ecoparque and go up the mountain together before the stay begins.
- Llamas graze the dry slope, kept as livestock that fits arid country, and the trails are known for condors, black-chested buzzard-eagles, and foxes.
- The kitchen cooks asado, goat over dried llama dung, and vegetables from the garden, with Mendoza wine at the table.
- Los Álamos, Colonia Papagayos, sits at 1,500 meters on spring water, about 25 minutes from the city and 16 kilometers from the center.
History
A Mendoza family runs San Ignacio Estancia Andina at Los Álamos, Colonia Papagayos, 1,500 meters up in the red precordillera. The posada has four ensuite rooms, room for ten guests, furniture the owners repaired and painted, water from their own spring, and llamas on the dry slope. The stay is regenerative rural travel: horses, walking, and a table cooked on the fire.
Experiences
- Horse riding — Horseback rides with experienced guides; guests praise the great horses.
- Feeding the animals — Guests can feed the estancia's animals.
- Mate and Chanchova — Guests drink mate and learn how to play Chanchova, per a guest review.
Amenities
- Fires for sitting by
- Mate sharing
- Horse riding
- Gastronomy featuring genuine mountain flavours
Open San Ignacio Estancia Andina in the atlas for live weekend rates, photos, and the full folio.
More hotels in Mendoza
- Diplomatic Hotel — Independent · Accessible Luxury
- Entre Cielos Wine & Wellness Hotel — Independent · Accessible Luxury
- Hilton Mendoza — Hilton Hotels & Resorts · Accessible Luxury
- Hualta Hotel Mendoza, Curio Collection by Hilton — Curio Collection · Accessible Luxury
- Puesto del Indio — Independent · Accessible Luxury
- Sheraton Mendoza Hotel — Sheraton · Accessible Luxury