Hotel Morgan Bay 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 ...

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We had returned to Piriapolis because of the glorious views of the mountains and the beaches, and had planned to spend the day learning more about the town. But after a series of half-communications, here we were scrambling ...

... 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 ...

Riding the chair lift down from the top of Mt. San Antonio to the harbor in Piriapolis, I am reminded of the Italian Riviera - except that the broad curve of beach is longer and wider than any that I have seen in northern Italy.

Piriapolis was a popular beach resort long before its neighbor, Punta del Este ...

Desde el aeropuerto de Montevido partí con mis amigos directo a recorrer las playas uruguayas. El tour fue planificado por los locales, así que la cosa prometía. Primera parada: Piriápolis. Me contaron que es la primera playa que ya tiene el color del Atlàntico y no la tonalidad a veces marrón del Río de la Plata. Muy tranquilo ...

Jan 18. I sleep for 12 hours and I miss breakfast. Man, I miss more breakfasts than Shaq misses free throws, the cubs miss the world series, Lance Armstrong misses his testicles or I miss a strong US dollar. I go to the beach and the weather is perfect. I give Uruguay credit, it seems to always have beautiful weather, well based on the 4 days I have been here. Later on I go to the bus station to get a bus ticket back to Colonial and a boat ticket to get me ...

So, like I said I leave without Vanessa and the other thing that makes me feel a bit better about the whole situation is that she can always call Carolina (the other girl from Colonial) for advice on how to get to Piriapolis if she needs to. Piriapolis is basically nothing more than a beach town and is probably only populated during the summer months. I really have no idea why I am going there except that I want a beach and ...

On arrival in Montevideo, we followed the two pages of directions Cierra had scrawled from a phone conversation a few hours earlier, and we reached the Johnson house without a problem. I pressed the doorbell button. "Ah! What did you just do?" Cierra scolded. "Um. I rang the doorbell." "You don't ring the bell at a house where there are children after nine! You knock!" From inside, the sound of a barking herd of vicious weiner-dogs interrupted this whispered ...

Although we are soon-to-be world travellers, Ed and I do have a couple trips in our resume which we shared. We were talking about them a few days ago, remembering and laughing together of the fun we had and we thought it'd be nice to include them in our logs, since they are, after all, all about the travelling. Last year Ed and I wanted to get away for a long weekend and decided to do so to Punta del Este, a beautiful costal city of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay. Punta ...

... had been hoping like crazy that there would be some warm weather on the way, and the day was fantastic. It wasn`t roastingly hot, but it was the kind of weather that meant you could lie on the sand for hours and hours without working up a sweat or feeling crispy. It was fun to watch a group of old men playing bowls on the sand, jumping excitedly when there was a good bowl. I can`t imagine any of the Australian bowlers ...