Good thing we rented a car because we basically drove the entire Uruguayan coast. From Punta del Este, we drove up to Punta del Diablo, which I mentioned, was amazing. We spent two nights there but could have stayed a week. Its a small town, with just a few bars and restaurants, right on the beach. Only sand roads, surfers everywhere, hippies, and just a really laid back atmosphere. Our first night there we stayed at a little place right on the water. Our balcony opened up to the ocean... we wanted to stay two nights but they didn't have availability :(
Gary on the "Main road"
Downtown
View from one of the places we stayed.
So Happy!
On December 30th, we drove down to Atlantida, which is a town in between Montevideo and Punta del Este. We made a pit stop in Punta del Este to see some of Gary's friends at Bikini Beach, which was awesome! Tons of people hanging out with a DJ on the beach. Too bad I had a little stomach bug and had to lay on a blanket like beached whale while everyone else danced and drank. We got to our hotel in Atlantida pretty late and laid down to rest for a minute, and the next thing we knew it was 2am, so we just stayed put and had a deserved relaxing evening Atlantida was cute, we hung out on the beach on New Years Eve and since I was feeling better, we made a last minute decision to party like rock stars in Punta del Este. We met up with Gary's friends from Chicago, some girls I had met in Buenos Aires and celebrated the new year in style.
We slept for about 3 hours, and headed back to Montevideo to return the car and catch our ferry back to Buenos Aires. We were 12km from the car return when we broke down. We had to wait an hour to get help and then had to book it in time to catch our bus to the ferry. But we made it.
Punta del Este Beach
Dinner New Years Eve
Celebrating with the Ozzie ladies
That night we met up with a guy that Gary had met when he backpacked around the world, so they hadn't seen eachother in 12 years and the guy tracked Gary down on Facebook, turns out he lives in BA, so we met up for dinner, it was really cool, plus he had some good pics of Gary.
Really terrible fires from the New Years fire works
Stupid car
We arrived in Cusco today and are still recovering from our whirlwind last few days!
3 comments:
The car broke down cause it's made in America! It's like our auto industry. Looks like your having a good time, but wow CUSCO ALREADY? Keep up on the blog and safe travels,
Lucas
Wow!! It sounds like you had such an awesome time! How crazy that y'all hooked up with a guy that Gary knows from his travels. He just happened to be in Uraguay at the same time y'all are? So crazy...
Keep the stories coming!
I haven't followed in a few weeks so it took me a while to catch up. I love the pictures and I miss you! Glad to hear you didn't get your passport stolen, stay safe! It snowed another 8 inches here this weekend, enjoy the beaches :)
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