Blogs from Punta del Este, East, Uruguay, South America - page 8

3rd January- 8th January PARTY PARTY PARTY! if you came to Punta del este, then you are either a rich spoilt argetinian/brazilian/uruguyan with too much money...or you are a backpacker in search for a PARTY!!! this place has parties going on 7 days a week. i thought the parties start late in BA, but this place no one shows up before 3am. so u can understand, i spent many of my days sleeping my hangovers away!! Stayed in a cool hostel called Hostel 1949. however, it was the most expensive hostel ive paid for in south america, and strangely also one of the worst!!! we had 9 people cramped into the space of what should fit no more than 6 people uncomfortably! Walking through the main district was like something u would see in Beverly Hills ... read more

To start let me just say Punta del este is one crazy place. Ok since my last entry i spent 2 days in a nice beach town called pidiapolis which was good to chill out and i basically spent most of my time on the beach and the last couple of days have been here in punta. The hostel here (mananitalis) has been packed and is 15 minute drive out of town which was good and bad. you really have to take a bus every where unless you are off to the beach where you can just walk...anyways i met more brazilians who have been driving around uruguay in a car so i stuck with them and headed out to a night club in the outskirts of la barra (the trendy place to go out drinking) ... read more

Hallo! Oh,habe es schon ewig wieder versaeumt,hier nen Eintrag zu schreiben.Wie ich schon angekuendigt hatte,bin ich inzwischen in Uruguay,in Punta del Este. Am Freitag war ich -nach dem Umzug mit der Produktionsfirma-in der Suedamerika-Premiere des Films Nuovomundo,der wirklich spektakulaer ist!Meine neue Freundin Christina aus den USA war mit dabei,denn die Einladung war fuer je zwei Leute. Wir waren nach dem Umzug in grosser Hektik,noch rechtzeitig zur Premiere zu kommen.In Sachen Kino und Theater sind die Argentinier sehr puenktlich und strikt.Wir nahmen ein Taxi und der Fahrer war allerdings fuer argentinische Verhaeltnisse sehr langsam,natuerilch!Gerade dann,wenn man ausnahmsweise mal nen Raser braeuchte!Als wir ankamen,mussten wir im Kino dann allerdings ne Stunde auf den italienischen Regiesseur warten,der noch nicht da war.Es gab vereinzelt schonTumulte,was ich sowohl von S... read more

Well we are struck indoors today. There has been thunder and lightning and showers on and off all day. We managed to get a quick walk on the beach before it started to rain too much, but it was too cold to really enjoy anyways. But the lightning was pretty cool to watch, just not in the rain and the wind! There´s not much to do in this town. We managed to find a different restaurant open today. It´s so expensive here! We had the cheapest things on the menu (I had the two hamburgers and fries deal, Jacq had pizza) and it was still $15Can... Sad when last week we were both eating all you can eat steak for the same price. We went to the casino earlier and like everything else, it was deserted. ... read more

We have just spent 24 hours in the highrise rip off resort of Punta del Este. We finally decided after much deliberation to head to where the warmth is, across the boarder to Brazil. I think one too many evenings in hotels without heating has taken its toll!! At 11pm tonight we take a 10 hour overnight bus ride to Porto Alegre in Southern Brazil where the temperature will be 22C. Unfortunately check out time was 10.30am this morning so we have had the tough task of killing time taking long ambles down the beautiful beach and drinking coffee watching the world cup. Punta Del Este is the rich Uruguans beach resort so is expensive and filled with highrise apartments. It is also out of season so everything is shut and no one is here! But ... read more