Blogs from Punta del Este, East, Uruguay, South America - page 5

Well what can I say?? I have stumbled on South Americas best kept secret - Uruguay! What an awesome, cool, laid back country it is (apart from EVERYONE smoking). The capital Montevideo is absolutely lovely and as for the beaches in the east, they are just as good as home. The surf is pumping and the sand goes on forever. The people are so friendly and it is very safe. It really reminds me of having a summer in Australia. I am currently in a place called Punta Del Est which is Montevideo´s answer to the Sorrento of Melbourne and the Palm Beach of Sydney. It is just devine and very busy with Uruguayan holiday makers. I am surprised to see that there´s a lot of money here in Uruguay. Everyone has a smile and it´s ... read more

time for an emergency blog post, i haven't written anything in about a decade to the increased amount of work/studying/paper writing/reading that has been occurring. but this weekend was one for the books, or in this case the blogs, so let's begin. stayed in buenos aires til friday morning, 6 am. didn't want to skip my uba class because we only have one more left...it was pretty useless but we watched apocalypse now and i got some reading done so woohoo. then at 6 am, legit the crack of down I met molly at the buquebus station to get on our fab ferry to uruguay. the boat is hilarious it's a cross between a cruise ship/airplane if that makes anysense. we arrive in montevideo, ugliest city in the world? then we get on a bus to ... read more

Second day in Uruguay - today we visited famous Punta del Este at the ocean shore. A 2:30 hour bus ride took us to Uruguays most famous beach resort. Fortunately the weather was close to perfect, as there were no clouds at all we were able to spend a beautiul sunny day at the sea. Unlike during the south american winter - Punta was not very busy. Despite the nice weather, we pretty much had the whole town for us. We did walk all around the peninsula and saw the pretty houses in the old part of the village at the tip of the island. The harbour was not too busy either, but we did see some very nice yachts. In the late afternoon we took the bus back to Montevideo and arrived in the capital ... read more

We don´t know how the idea of a road trip got in our head, but after checking out the cost of hiring a car in Uruguay ($57 a day - but you get th 22% VAT back!) we decided to spend a few days driving along the Uruguayan coast. img= http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v300/145/67/223401787/n223401787_6940088_8943.jpg center It's all very well renting a car - but which way are we going? By complete luck (although Adam claims that it was his planning), we had a bit of a heat wave whilst we were on our drive. Score. Driving along palm-tree lined roads next to white sandy beaches is not as much fun in the rain. img= http://photos-h.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v300/145/67/223401787/n223401787_6940087_8613.jpg center Open road - this is the way to see Uraguay We thought that we´d be able to find a campsite or two to ... read more

After a month in a lended apartment in this "two month" beach, we know that the season ended after February. In fact, the high season is from December 26 to January 31; a middle season is the three first weeks in February; later you can say you are in low season until end of March or perhaps April. Nevertheless, we found that if you want good weather (a little cols for the sea) and nice promenades, then you coul like Punta del Este in March or even in April. Another problem: it is more expensive with time due to the falling dollar; and more and more you have to be very carefully with the lack of honesty of merchants and all kind of dealers. Specially with change of 1000 uruguayan bills!... read more