From Montivideo we caught another bus to the city of Colonia, 2 hours on a nearly straight road. We had the pleasure of finding our hostel and making ourselves comfortable, then it started to rain. Our 4th day of rain in 8 months. Our first day in Colonia was spent inside because of more rain. Everyone had said what a gorgeos town it is and very Portugese in the old neighbourhood. The old part of town was from the old days and had some remaining stone walls. A light house was built in the ruins of an old convent and we [View Full Entry]

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Our holiday is winding down and I find so is my enthusiasm for blogging. I haven't updated for ages so here is a backdated update, as much as I can remember. From Melo we caught another bus to Montevideo, this was usually about a 6 hour trip but we managed to catch a bus that broke down. It broke down about an hour from our destination and we waited for another bus to come, about a half an hour and off we went. The bus station is quite a distance from the town centre and off on another taxi. These cities [View Full Entry]

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When there is very little information on the internet about a town, you are a bit short on options, especially when you arrive late at night, so the only place I had found out to stay in Melo was the Grand Hotel, so we taxied there and took a room for the night. It turned out to be the most expensive place we had stayed in, in South America, full of business people. Paul went looking for another place, immediately after breakfast, He found a cheaper place around the corner a bit at the Hotel Principado de Asturias. This was more [View Full Entry]

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We caught a bus to Tacuarembo and arrived at 9pm on the third. The tourist office at the bus station was closed, so we just caught a taxi to the Hotel Plaza, watched a TV program on how to make a parrilla, so no need to go to cooking class. We had more parrilla for tea, in a really interesting restaurant, lots of horse stuff on the walls, horse shoes, stirrups, whips etc. We walked to the bus station to see the tourist office, the staff their could not speak English, and we could not understand them or figure out how [View Full Entry]

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I don't think many tourists come here. We had some trouble finding out what we should do, so we did what we usually do when we don't know what to do. We walked around town and went to the museum. The museum is very interesting and had some old town plans, models of what the town was like after Spanish bombing, lots of old guns, the usual stuff. On Sunday 2nd we found a parrilla place just down the road and around the corner from the Hotel Columbia, where we were staying. The parrilla cost $250 including drinks and was huge, [View Full Entry]

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We wanted to get to Uruguay and the bus company gave us the information that the 1st 2 crossing on the way south would mean we would be dropped off on the side of the road at 5 am and 6 am so we decided to go with a bus company that would drop us at the terminal at Gualeguaychu. So we did another overnight bus trip, paid for a cama seat so we would have some comfort but our bus had seats in front that bent so far back it glued you into your seat so that you could not [View Full Entry]

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We stayed at Backpackers Soul. We walked around Salta, went up the cable car to a lookout of the town. It was a cool overcast day. The lookout site had a large water feature that was very tastefully done. 25th We walked around town some more and we caught an overnight bus to Corrientes. 26th Arrived in a cold hole called Corrientes. Paul booked us in a room that was not much bigger than a cupboard and felt like a fridge. I stayed in bed all day trying to get warm and Paul walked around town. 27th Caught a taxi to [View Full Entry]

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After our quick trip through to Sucre in a taxi we found a Hotel and had lunch at the Mercardo down the road. Then we found where to catch the Dinotruck - transport to the local cement works where there are donosour tracks imprinted in the limestone wall. The cement works are now not using that part of the hill to make cement and the footprints are being conserved. There is a park at the cement works with life size models of the dinosaurs that left the foot prints. It was very impressive. We spent the next day at the local [View Full Entry]

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Paul visited the mine [View Full Entry]

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The train to Tupiza arrived at 4 am, a really unusual time of day to be looking for accommodation. Across the road from the railway station is a really nice hotel called Hotel Mitru Anexo which had a room for us, a good hot shower and then a sleep. Turpiza is a really nice town, has an easy feel, we had a walk around and booked a tour to have a look at the canyons the next day. Tupiza is near where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid robbed the payrole at Huaca Huanusca, and San Vicente is a mining town [View Full Entry]

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