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South America » Uruguay » East » Punta del Diablo April 19th 2009

What an interesting find. Punta del Diablo is this neat little beach town and we were grateful that we had arrived after the high season. We loved the empty beaches and quiet atmosphere (especially after our paradise in Cabo Polonio). It is a town of approximately 500 people, but during the high season sees over 20,000 per day! Luckily for us, on the day we arrived at the El Diablo Tranquilo, it was the least amount of people they had had all year! We spent our time there mingling with other travelers and enjoy the serene little village. We met up with a new traveler from Ireland (Scully) and a former travel partner (Pete) from London, as well as a dozen or so people that were alot of fun! But what we were most impressed by ... read more
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South America » Uruguay » East » Punta del Diablo March 28th 2009

I made a day trip to Punta del Diablo which is fishing village continually recommended in the travel books. My advice, if you are touring this area and have to make choices what to see, I would give this place a miss. Perhaps the problem is that I am from Nova Scotia and have visited many beautiful fishing villages? Perhaps it was the three hour bus ride to a destination 100 kms away? Perhaps it was off season and this particular village suffered from lack of tourists? When I arrived in the village centre I wondered which way to go to see the rustic beauty. For several hours I went in all directions and did not find anything noteworthy. There is Artigas´s statute in a white shine on the rocks. The rocks are similar to the ... read more
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Beach view

South America » Uruguay » East » Punta del Diablo February 28th 2009

After the excitment of BA we decided we needing some quiet time to relax and work on our tans as the end of our trip approached. We headed to the beaches in Uruguay and after a night in the expensive and holiday-resort feel of Punta del Este we were up in the morning to take the local bus to Punta del Diablo an old fishing village where we rented a cabana, beach hut, with 2 of the Irish lads we had met previously. We had our own hut with kitchen and bbq out the front and after so much time in Hostels it was great to have our own house and our days were spent wave surfing, tanning, and preparing for the nightly bbq we prepared out the front and washed down with cask wine. We ... read more
Soaking up the sun
With the adopted sons
Trying to coax Cherie into the ocean

South America » Uruguay » East » Punta del Diablo January 10th 2009

I jumped ship from everyone else in La Paloma, and headed up to Punta del Diablo by myself, not really knowing what to expect. I showed up and had to spend the next few hours going from hotel to hotel looking for a room. Every single one was booked full for the next few days, if not weeks or month. Finally, after several hours of searching, I found one where someone had canceled so I was able to spend the night and take a look around the city. It is a ton of cabanas running along the rocky coastline, with many more behind it in a more organized grid. There is a single main street running down to the ocean front, then heading across the back of it, turning more into a pedestrian boardwalk with the ... read more
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South America » Uruguay » East » Punta del Diablo January 4th 2009

I know you maybe thinking this is an overload of stories but i am really trying to catch up with myself. Hope you are enjoying them. I do find that the sooner i can write the story to when it happened the funnier i can make it. Funny, i do try. So we made to Punto Del Dialbo which is a very hippy point along the coast of Uruguay. Further south is Punto Del Este and thats where the snobs go supposidly so we stayed clear of any unnatural posing and went for hairy and natural. Which we got and alot more. We stayed in a campsite 2k from the village which was a bit shit cause it is along walk in the hot hot sun. Not complaining! So we walked in to town and it ... read more
Colonia
Cobbled streets
Just checking!

South America » Uruguay » East » Punta del Diablo January 4th 2009

hi all again, Well from iguazu we managed to get our selves to Uruguay in two days. We were very good to ourselves on the wayt back from Iguazu and we got the most luxurious bus were the seats go right down into a bed. Its not the expensive and well its a long old trip. So we left Iguazu in our fancy bus and headed back to Buenos Aires. The plans was to keep going until we reached Uruguay. We did the over night bus and then off the bus and walked to the boat terminal which was about a 20min walk from the bus terminal which was near where we had the bikes stolen so i don't like it very much around there. So we got to the boat terminal and it was so ... read more

South America » Uruguay » East » Punta del Diablo December 25th 2008

Hoi allemaal, Hier het vervolg op onze zon, zee & strand vakantie in Punta-del-Diablo in Uruguay. Naast wandelen en zwemmen (elke ochtend een frisse duik in het zwembad voor het ontbijt) hebben we ook geprobeerd te surfen. We houden het erop dat de golven niet goed waren, want veel brachten we er niet van terecht. Na 2 uur zoutwater happen hielden we het dan ook voor gezien en besloten nog wat van Punta-del-Diablo te verkennen. Dit kleine vissers-hippy plaatsje ligt op een landpunt, waardoor het o.a. een erg goede surfspot is. Het bestaat voornamelijk uit kleine houten huisjes en kleine onverharde straatjes. Asphalt vind je alleen op de weg er naar toe. We waren er net voor het hoog seizoen, dus men was nog volop bezig met het bouwen van barretjes & restaurantjes. Meestal waren 3 ... read more
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Kleine huisjes

South America » Uruguay » East » Punta del Diablo December 22nd 2008

The devil and the deep blue sea, what a connection. That was firmly in our heads when we started the on the bus again, another trip but extremely uneventful. So safely arriving in Diablo only took a few hours and Em had spent most of that dribbling on my shoulder. Diablo was to be the most exotic place that both of us had spent Xmas and we were looking forward to getting some time with our own place, cooker, kitchen and our own toilet - perfect. We encountered our first problem when we stepped off the bus, how were we going to get in touch with the owner of the cabana that we had hired. Again with a level of embarrassment we got in touch with Alfredo and alerted him of our arrival, he told us ... read more
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South America » Uruguay » East » Punta del Diablo December 20th 2008

Hola hola! Na 22uur in de bus van Iguazu - Bueños Aires & 3uur met de boot waren we eindelijk in Uruguay. Uruguay, 1e wereldkampioen voetbal en daarna nog een keer en dus 2x meer als Nederland (en Ierland(maar dat spreekt voor zich;-)). Verder land van heuvels, paarden, wijn en mooie stranden. Uruguay wordt ook wel het Zwitserland van Zuid-Amerika genoemd. Waarschijnlijk van wege de immigranten uit Zwitserland, hoewel de Duitsers, Spanjaarden en Italianen ook niet ontbreken, verder de econimsche welvaart voortvloeiend uit de vlees en wolindustrie. Het is hier allemaal een tikkeltje beter geregeld. Wat het landschap betreft deed het met erg aan Duitsland denken, maar dan aan zee, als je begrijpt wat ik bedoel. De 1ste en tevens laatste nacht brachten we door in Colonia. Een heerlijk knus havenstadje aan zee/rivier ( het water ... read more
Skyline Bueños Aires & Joost
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South America » Uruguay » East » Punta del Diablo November 29th 2008

...and then I was off again to Uruguay - hadn´t intended to go but I´d heard there was a cool hostel in a fairly rustic town called Punto del Daiblo. With Gigi´s suggestion of sleeping tablets to make the journey go quicker I was off on an 11 hour trip. Now there was a little confusion owing to a lack of brain and preparation so I bought a ticket to Montevideo thinking one has to go there to get to Punto DD. As it turns out I´d missed a mail from the hostel giving a totally different route. So when I was good and tired I popped my first pill (Gigi suggested using only one) and I was off - until I got to the border crossing where I woke up at 3 and thought in ... read more
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