Hostal El Estrecho Paradiso
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Salvador Los tortugas marinas!
... barked like a dog at regular intervals but they seemed like nice enough people. The project coordinator was called Alan, he was in charge as the boss who I had been communicating with previously was doing business in Montevideo. Alan was Argentinian, and seemed pretty laid back right from the offset. He cooked us all homemade pizza which was incredible, and we all sat up talking (or everyone else talked in Spanish and we stared around smiling) for a few hours before we went to bed. ...
A whole lot of nothing
... in at one point, however, there was no ATM that accepted credit in town and we were running low on funds. Therefore if we wanted to escape this place we needed to use our precious cash for purchasing a bus ticket instead.
Whilst I give it a pretty bad rap, there were a couple of things to do here. During our time we managed to walk along the beach to a shipwreck and check out some more bikini ...
Sleepsville
... of nowhere!! We were the only campers...no surprises there then! Starving, we decided to walk along the main road into La Pedrera which was a pretty little town by the sea ...but absolutely dead! Where the hell is everyone??? It is 28 degress outside and they call this the ´off season´ !! What the hell!! Supposedly things get busy around Christmas until March but given it is mid December, you would ...
The Cape - Our few days at Cabo Polonio
This is a top pick!
... corvina with roast potatoes and salad. I don’t think that we expected that standard of food from a kitchen lit solely from candles!
I can see why people stay longer in Cabo Polonio as you have unspoilt natural beaches on your doorstep, very friendly people and an easy social scene but I think off season, two nights is enough and we move on up the coast to Punta Del Diablo.
Full photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonnymilla r/sets/
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Hippy Beach
Another place we had been told to definately visit in Uruguay was Cabo Polonio... this was a small beach restort that was full of hippies and sealions but had no electricity and running water...
We took a short bus journey (1 hour) south of Punta Del Diablo and got dropped off at a station... the only way to get to Cabo beaches was over lots of sand dunes! So we had to get these massive sort of military trucks that had huge wheels that drove us over them! This ...
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