We didn´t have to travel far to our next destination, it´s just a hour one ferry ride across the Rio del Plata from Buenos Aires to Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay. In our last blog, we talked about being beach bound, and although Uruguay has some of the best beaches in South America, unfortunately we didn´t quite get the weather for it. Temperatures had hit 30 degrees during our stay in Buenos Aires, but on our last morning, we woke up to torrential rain. We underestimated how big of a tourist draw Colonia is for South Americans, even on a wet winter weekend, and really struggled to find a hotel for our first night, a Saturday. Luckily thw 5 star Radisson was able to squeeze us into an executive room. It was a bit of a
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