Blogs from Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Ríos, Argentina, South America

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Río Uruguay and Naty´s Home Town! I traveled this weekend with my host parents to Natalia´s home town! It’s this charming little town on the edge of Río Uruguay. It’s extremely peaceful and everyone sits outside at night and greets each other on the street. There are a million tracks and other places to run around the city including the Defensa (a big boardwalk that ends in a lighthouse). There are also a million gyms and sports clubs for soccer, basketball, hockey and tennis throughout the city. It seems that everyone in this little town is an athlete! Streets are lined with beautiful teracotta roof houses and open backyard gardens. The city center is lined with California style clothing stores and ice cream shops (Dany´s is the most amazing ice cream I have ever had!!) Many ... read more
Naty & I
Río Uruguay
Hands


We left Puerto Iguazu on the Expreso Singer overnight bus, leaving about 90 minutes late. Explanation was that the guys had been fixing the air conditioning - so probably worth the wait given the temperatures here. A fairly uneventful 14 hours later with decent amounts of sleep, particularly after the blankets were given out, we found ourselves at the roadside outside Concepcion del Uruguay. Not quite sure which direction to head in but a minute later the local gendarmes wandered across the road to ask us where we had come from, and where we were going. Having established that we did not want to walk into town, next thing we knew the policeman was on his radio getting a cab to take us the 7km into town. The taxi driver then gave us a running commentary ... read more
Palacio San Jose
An oddity in Concepcion




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