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Published: February 22nd 2011
Well needless to say the attempts at relaxing a little more in Colonia were thrown out the window after a few Coronas and some cheesy garlic and brocoli pizza (strange eh) sitting out on the deck of a lovely little restaurant which looked right out over the river that separates uruguay from argentina. Apparently (and I could imagine) it´s an amazing spot to watch the sunset but it was still raining and overcast so we missed it 😞 But the pizza was great!
We also met a couple from Spain who were staying at the local hostel and who were really nice so we ended up heading back to their hostel to meet a few other travellers! It was an AWESOME night! I think we ended up rolling in the door at about 6am - which I know sounds ridiculously late but when a normal dinner time here is about midnight it makes sense, trust me. One of the guys staying at the hostel, a local Uruguayian worked at the Sister hostel in Montevideo (our next stop). He was working the following night at the hostel so invited us to swing by and check it out.
The next day
was a 3 hour trip to Montevideo on the bus but it was a good opportunity to catch up on some shuteye. Montevideo was a little scabby - I felt a bit unsafe, and a girl from the other group got mugged at night. It´s the biggest city in Uruguay with 1 million people and a third of the whole population of Uruguay. It´s a very poor country!
We went out for a few drinks and dinner with our tour crew until about midnight and then headed over the other side of town to visit Frederico, the guy we had met the previous night in Colonia. There was a birthday on for one of the guys staying at the hostel which was both confusing and fun. It was the first time we were the only two people with English as our first language among such a huge group of NESB´s 😉 Nicole got nicknamed by two argentinian girls as ´da nada´ for her continuous use of the phrase. After singing happy birthday in all the languages possible we headed to the local bar. Nic was feeling ill so we behaved and went home relatively early. I think we were
Sur Hostel Montevideo Birthday Crew
The girl making the peace sign is the one who named Nicole Da Nadain just before 4 which was good!
The next day we jumped on the bus for our 6 hour trip to Salto. Salto is the second biggest city in Uruguay with only 100 000 people. Historically it´s well known for a history of smuggling to and from Argentina which you can see just accross the other side of the river. The town is quite pretty! And we had a lovely meal with the tour group down near the water where we tried the local wine Tannat - it´s typically a southern french wine apparently but our tour guide Mark says it´s better in Salto because the soil is better - it was good!
We got an early night for once and enjoyed our first bit of television in Sur America - Greys Anatomy.
Today we got up and headed to the local water park in Salto - I was very daring and took a very scary slide - I´m more suprised than you, I guarantee it! And I even got pictures, it was one of those deep drop slides where your toggs fight gravity the whole way down if you know what i mean 😉 The weather
Downtown Salto
You can see the Argentinian border behind us was lovely, like a typical hot summers day in Oz, it was great to spend the day lazing about in the pools! Tonight we head on the night bus to San Iguacio back in Argentina - should be an adventure, we cross the border at midnight in a convoy of taxis with our group and the other group. Ill let you know how it goes soon.
Love love xxx
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