Hotel Yeruti La Paloma
Calle Grulla, casi Aries La Paloma, 21700, Uruguay
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Sun, sea, sand, storms and scorpions
... actually quite weird camping in the warmth as we had been used to pitching the tent in snow etc. What the heat did bring was bugs! Wee black sticky ones (particularly annoying) and other flying devils. We also became acquainted with the scorpion! Just a small one mind but still with those pincers....yikes. Warning when camping in Uruguay, always check your sleeping bag and your shoes.
The next we spent on the ...
The Cape - Our few days at Cabo Polonio
... to believe it is back swimming with its friends!
It gets dark pretty quickly and we’re both very glad of the head torches we brought as they have not had much opportunity for use yet. We head to the hostel where Pancho is preparing two big fish (Corvina – a meaty white fish) for dinner and calling round his friends to say that he has more fish than he knows what to do with. So we have our first meal with the locals ( who include 'The ...
Uruguay - Sorry we're closed
... all colours where the hippies live. We had checked with the tourist information to see if anything was open, the places listed in Lonely Planet were all closed! Basically, there was one hotel and one hostel open. We checked into the hotel, our room was right on the beach but then we were the only guests there! It really is an incredible place, no roads, just shacks dotted here and there, the odd horse or dog wandering about, and at night ...
To the beach i say!
... we both decided to get a little exercise went for jogs down the beach, a workout in the sand, measured out 100 m sprints and hurdles as well. It felt good after out lazy day before. We spent the whole day there on the beach but it was only like 20-25 degrees here. We decided to fast track it to Brazil and for the beaches there for some serious hot weather beaching, surfing, hammock sleeping, island life.
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Beach Candles
... exactly as advertised, right on the beach. There were 4 hammocks, some loungers and a covered verandah with a big table for eating at and socialising around. We were just staying one night so shared a 4 bed dorm with one other traveller, a lovely Australian lady.
Cabo Polonia is home to sea lines and on the migration path of Antarctic seals, penguins, whales, birds and, no doubt, masses of other sea life. Our time of visiting did not coincide ...


