Argentino Hotel Casino Piriapolis

Time to move on once again, the campsite was well located for us. It was about a 20 minute stroll into the town to the shops and just five minutes to the beach itself. The last few days have been very cold at night, but we are able to run the electric fire all the time so that is no problem. Everyday it has been bright blue skies and the afternoons are very pleasant outside. We have ...

Ten minutes outside of Piriapolis, the little van turned off the road where the hand-painted sign directed us toward the "caves of the Indians." At the end of the dirt track, we left the van and started the climb up the side of Sugar Loaf Mountain. (You can see the ...

... sea lions while you take a picture.

These four sea lions have made the trip back to the mainland from Isla de los Lobos, which lies about 3 miles out into the Atlantic. Lobo is the Spanish word for lion, and for some reason, the Uruguayans call sea lions "sea wolves," despite the obvious resemblance to the King of Beasts. The ...

... des gens jouent au volley. Tout le monde boit son mate meme sur la plage les groupe de jeunes le boivent comme si ca faisait cool. Le soir les rues sont tres agitees, il y a des concerts, des mimes des vendeur de colliers et tout ce qu'on peut trouver dans une station balneaire. C'est assez opressant, nous decidons que nous rentrenrons un jour plus tot a Buenos Aires.

... be more specific. I decide to sort of nix the going out thing tonight, not really sure where to go to be honest. I go to the casino but they don`t even have blackjack, just roulette and a ton of slots. Probably a good thing as I don`t lose any money tonight. January 19, Piriapolis Get some breakfast (I missed it again, how I have no idea) at some restaurant and when I come back I notice I have a new roomate. He isn`t there but his stuff is along with a ...

... and I didn't expect there to be hardly any foreigners (not counting other South Americans) let alone an American. I'm sure we are the only two in town. Matis lives in Buenos Aires and she is down here visiting him for 3 weeks. Hang out with Matis, Jane and some of their other friends in between games of retard volleyball. I'm sitting against one of the volleyball poles and this stray dog comes over and totally starts ...

... seemingly having a look at the latest arrivals. One of the other attractions of Cabo Polonio is the sea lion colony, which is about 500metres from the shore. They are mightily impressive beasts, but they are in the habit of fighting to the death. The resulting corpses are washed to the beach where they rot and stink! When we awoke and had breakfast to the stink of rotting blubber on our first morning we decided that 1 night would be ...

... time to see the kids off to school with a big hug and say goodbye to Rob as he headed to work. We walked down to the Rambla, by the shore and took in the sights briefly, great pastel and stucco houses by the shore, before strolling back for our packs. We had to catch a bus in Montevideo just past noon that would carry us a couple of hours inland to a small town near San Gabriel, where a relative of one of Cierra's family friends had offered to have us to her ranch.

I am not able to get a bus to Florianopolis until Monday so I explore Pirianapolis. Less than an hour away, it has a completely different feel. Much smaller and more laid back. My hotel, Hotel Centro, is as nice but one fourth the cost. Restaurants are solid but not at the International levels of Punto del Este. The beach is nice. It is really a chill kind of place.

... for a hotel. We drove around for a few hours, first to the cheapest part of town. We found the hotels there to be absolutely disgusting. We stopped to look at a few but we thought the prices were high in relation to the condition of the place. I'm talking about really dingy hotels....the kind you don't know what you're gonna find under the sheets, the kind that have old car tires in the "lobby". We drove away from that part of town as fast as we could and headed toward ...