Rio de la Plata Colonia del Sacramento

... free shop I've ever seen! The boat that transported travelers from the hustle and bustle of Buenos Aires across the Rio de la Plata to scenic Uruguay was more like a cruise ship than a ferry--well, minus the sleeping cabins and buffet lines! In ...

... have a much higher percentage of mestizo (mixed Spanish and indigenous blood) and indigenous people. I have landed myself in Colonia del Sacramento, after an one hour catamaran (or flying boat) ride across from Buenos Aires. Colonia is a pleasant and ...

... Montevideo. I want to see some more of Uruguay before heading to carnival in Brazil. Went out for another stroll in the evening. Sat by the water and watched the sunset over the muddy waters of the Rio de la Plata. A nice way to end the day in ...

We caught a bus to a small town called Colonia del Sacramento on the west side of Uruguay. Situated on the sandy banks of the Rio de la Plata it was an important centre for smuggling British goods across the river into the Spanish colonies during the ...

... across the border by ferry into Uraguay to the charming 17th century Portugese contraband port and fortress of Colonia just a 3 hour ferry ride across the Rio De La Plata from Buenos Aires....as we´re only here for one day the obvious way to see as ...

We take the slow boat across the Rio de la Plata to Colonia de Sacramento which takes three hours and is the most pleasant boat trip so far. We stay at Hostel Sur in Colonia which is five minutes' walk from both the boat terminal and old town.  And ...

After some hard work to find the correct ferry terminal to leave from I took the 50 minute trip across the Rio de la Plata to Uruguay. As I'm not a big fan of boats I was glad the crossing was so short! It didn't take long to find the hostel and get ...

... luck. Finding the Colonia Yacht Club serving ice cold beer on the jetty looking directly west as the sun set over the Rio de la Plata (River of Silver) was the latter. There was no other place I wanted to be. Perfect. Not so perfect was ...

From Buenos Aires you can take a ferry across the Rio de la Plata to the town of Colonia Del Sacramento in Uruguay. So we thought, why not? It´s a very old town, originally built by the Portuguese in 1680 so that they could keep an eye on the ...

The tranquil colonial town of Colonia del Sacramento is where I will take the ferry to Buenos Aires. Still a bit dazed from my meat delirium earlier in Montevideo, I thought about going to McDonald's to check if their meat would taste better here as ...