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Travel Blogs from Punta del Este
Day 9/10 - Time to hit the beach - again....
Time to leave the Uruguayan capital and head east for the holiday beach town of Punta del Este. Ended up being joined by a very nice Korean chap called Wawi from our hostel, who wanted to travel to Punta del Este for a day trip but didn't know how the buses worked, so we took him with us.
Bus chugged out of the terminal... chugged being …
Punta del Este, Uruguay
"Wax it, tan it, buff it at the gym and then go to Punta del Este", thats how the Lonely Planet begins its describtion of Punta del Este, a beach resort city that attracts loads of visitors from Montevideo but it even more from Buenos Aires. Argentians jokingly refer to it as a suburb of Buenos Aires, which is not too kindly received by the more …
Uruguay
I officially left the GAP tour in BA, and so did Brett. The two, along with Joni from Javier's previos group, of us made plans to go to Punta del este.
Ruth was going all the way to Rio wth the tour but she felt a bit disappointed that our tightknit group had totally disolved now, that she decided to break away from the group and come to Punta …
Four Days in Punta
A quick two hours on the bus and I'm at the beach portion of my tour, Punta del Este. I had the unusual good forsight to reserve my room at the 1949 Hostel ahead. After getting turned away from the hip Red Hostel in Montevideo, I thought it a good idea. Good thing too. I arrived on a Friday and they were booked out for the the weekend through to …