Blogs from Montevideo, District of Montevideo, Uruguay, South America - page 28

Today was the first morning we have had free. All the girls took advantage of their free time to ....go to a beach in Montevideo. They spent a few hours there then had lunch and shopped a little. Kali is feeling much better and joined the girls today. Mr and Mrs. Siu along with Tad and Mila and Jose, Mitchell, Mandy and coach went to the soccer museum which is located in the Montevideo Stadium. They toured the museum as well as the facility, walking on the turf field and visiting the changing rooms. The history is rich as this small country of 3 million people have won the World Cup of soccer on two occasions. The first was as the host team in 1930 in the very same stadium and their second victory was ... read more

Hola queridos amigos en Alemania! Muchos Saludos desde Urugay! Heute nun der zweite Teil meines Reiseberichtes, welcher in Urugay stattfindet... Es ging also zunaechst mit der Faehre am Morgen des 11. 03. 2007 nach Colonia de Secremento, um dann mit dem Bus 2 1/2 Stunden weiter nach Montevideo zu fahren. Die Busfahrt nutzten Zoe und ich, um unser Schlafdefizit nachzuholen, entsprechend verleif die Fahrt auch relativ schnell. Wir hatten in Montevideo kein Hostel gebucht oder reserviert, aber uns einige Adressen im Internet rausgesucht, und sind mit dem Taxi einfach mal los zum Plaza de Independencia, wo ein nettes Hostal sein sollte. Glueckspilze wie wir sind hatten sie auch noch zwei Betten frei und so machten wir es uns erst einmal gemuetlich, nahmen eine schoene kalte Dusche, um spater ein wenig durch die Strassen der Altstadt zu ... read more

The truck left at five o'clock on Sunday morning, well before I was up for Church! We drove all day & arrived into Foz D Iguazu well after dark to a crappy buffet at the campsite, which looked like it had been sitting out for hours. So far, I don't think anybody on the truck is particularly impressed with Brazillian food. Because we arrived so late, it was beer o'clock straight after dinner & the campsite had arranged a salsa party beginning at eleven. I don't know why it was called a salsa party because it was all house & techno music playing & nobody was doing any salsa dancing. There was a truckload of Kumuka people wearing bikinis (even the boys) & lays, but that just made it look like a hawaiian themed party. The ... read more

After a relaxing but very short visit to beautiful Florianoplis, we arrived on the Argentinian side of the Iguazu falls after yet another long night bus. We decided to leave the falls on a night bus the next day so we had two half days to do the touisty thing and have a good look at these world famous waterfalls. We arrived at the falls in the afternoon and decided to go for a boat ride to experience the view from water level. Water certainly was the operative word as we didn't anticipate that the boat would actually go under the falls not once but several times. We were a bit concerned when the boat driver gave us a dry sack to put all our valuables in first, before giving us a lifejacket and donning a ... read more

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