Day trip to Uruguay

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Buenos Aires is separated from Uruguay by the Rio De La Plata (Plate River) and ferries run from the city to Uruguay's captial Montevideo and to the historic town of Colonia Del Sacramento. I had spent quite a lot of time in big cities recently so I decided to catch the ferry to Colonia for an afternoon.

Colonia was founded by the Portuguese in 1680 and much of its Portuguese colonial architecture can still be seen. The town's fortified walls and drawbridged gateway remain, and there are old houses, a lighthouse that you can enter and climb to the top, a ruined convent, a church, a central plaza with palm trees and squawking parakeets, short narrow picturesque streets, several museums and handicraft shops. The whole historic town is unspoilt and great to wander around in the sunshine after the madness of the big city across the water.

In the evening I returned to Buenos Aires on the ferry and planned my next journey - to see the huge waterfalls at Iguazú.

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