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Uruguay
Yo me voy a Uruguay
Well, by the time you read this I will be in Uruguay. I write this from my mobile as I wait to depart Argentina. What I expected to be a boat is closer to a ship, with its own gaming area, multiple levels with a lift between them, and a huge duty free shop. Quite [...]
Uruguay Day Nine
PUNTA DEL ESTE: After a number of very busy tourist days, today became a day of rest and of catching up with my journaling. There was time to go for a wander around the place and see what the point actually looked like, but with storms bringing showers over the place all day it was [...]
Uruguay Day Two
COLONIA: By the time I woke up today, half of the day was gone. I had made the mistake of closing the wooden shutters on my doors. They were so effective that I needed to turn on my bedside light to discover it was almost 11am. Not that I really minded. I am on an [...]
Uruguay Day Five
MONTEVIDEO: Well it turns out that today was just like any other lazy travel day. A little wander here, a little look there, stop for food and it was all over. Another day gone. It is amazing how fast days can disappear when you do not plan them. So what happened? As I said, not [...]
Uruguay Day Three
COLONIA-MONTEVIDEO: Today was a travel day. As such, a lazy start sees me rise just before lunch and check out of my hostel. The sun has returned today, and since I had a little time before needing to catch a bus I grabbed a bike from the hostel and took off to take some more [...]
Uruguay Day Ten
PUNTA DEL ESTE: Rising late can do a lot to minimise how much you can do in a day. It did today. Perhaps it was the fact that I got caught in the local handicraft markets for so long, or that I stopped to chat with and feed some of the poorer locals, but in [...]
Uruguay Day Thirteen (Morning)
PUNTA DEL DIABLO: My last morning in Punta del Diablo. Today I was about to head on to Chuy, once I actually managed to catch a bus. Before I did though, there were a number of things that I was yet to do while still in Punta del Diablo, including find all of the friends [...]
Uruguay Day Eight
PIRIAPOLIS-PUNTA DEL ESTE: Today I was heading on to Punta del Este, and after climbing Cerro Pan de Azúcar yesterday it seemed to me that I had seen most of what Piriápolis had to offer. It was for this reason that I rose late and raced downstairs for breakfast at the last minute. Today was [...]
Uruguay Day Eleven
PUNTA DEL ESTE-PUNTA DEL DIABLO: Waking in time to do what I needed to do before leaving Punta del Este, I quickly organised myself for the unexpected change in day and made the bus to Punta del Diablo. A small fishing village with only a handful of people living here permanently, everything about the place [...]
Uruguay Day Seven
PIRIAPOLIS: A travel day today. After finding Montevideo very quiet and without much to see or do I am quite glad to be going actually. My goal today is to reach Punta del Este, although I received an email telling me about great views from inside a cross on the second highest hill in the [...]
Uruguay Day Six
MONTEVIDEO: Well today I started early, and a lot has happened. It seemed easy to rise just after 8am this morning, although a fight with the shower again set me back in my early schedule. It turned out that the flame on the gas heater had extinguished, so until we re-lit that there was never [...]
Uruguay Day Twelve
PUNTA DEL DIABLO: A whole day to discover the beaches and wonders of this remarkable village of Punta del Diablo. My first objective was to visit the lighthouse down the end of one of the long beaches. After this I simply took time out to wander the rocks and beaches, enjoying the natural wonders of [...]
Uruguay Day Fourteen (End)
CHUY-TREINTA Y TRES: After wandering around Brazil and Uruguay for a while, I finally catch the bus to Treinta y Tres. After two weeks of traveling around Uruguay as a tourist it was all about to end. I did not mind though because I was about to meet The Scotts, some friends that I had [...]
Meeting The Scotts
TREINTA Y TRES: The main purpose of traveling through Uruguay was to visit the Goodmans. A family that I met via email through mutual friends. They lived in Treinta y Tres, the capital city of the province of the same name. This is where I had just arrived, and I had no idea what to [...]
Uruguay Day Four
MONTEVIDEO: As seems to be my trend lately, I managed to rise just after 10am. Breakfast was until 11am so I still had time for a shower first. My room mate, Mike, had long since disappeared to Colonia. He was working his way around most of South America in just three weeks, so the 16hrs [...]
Uruguay Day One
COLONIA: Well, here I am in the little country of Uruguay. After arriving in Colonia at midday I quickly found a place to stay, grabbed some money and headed off to see some sights. I did not get far though. I had hardly made it down the road before I stopped to chat with a [...]
Uruguay Day Thirteen (Night)
CHUY & CHUI: Today I moved on to Chuy. A true frontier town on the border with Brazil, Chuy has a main street on which Uruguay and Brazil meet. Cross the street and you have changed countries. There are many unusual things that I discovered in this small town in the North-East of Uruguay, including [...]