La Posta Del Cangrejo Punta del Este

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Arrive at 1.30 pm. Two days and One night.

leave on the afternoon to head to Montevideo before catching the morning flight to Florianopolis,

MONTEVIDEO TO PUNTE DEL ESTE – DRIZZLING AND WARM - 1.11.09

The Hostel Palermo had a beautiful marble staircase, the most posh thing about the place, the rest was very, very basic, and we had to carry all our luggage down the stairs to load up the bikes which were stored at the local undercover carpark.

By 10:30am we were loaded (we would have liked to get away earlier, but the mozzie fiasco left us a bit 'drained') and ...

... again was quite pretty, we even took the chair lift up to the highest point, for what it was worth. Directly lifted from a 1970's ski resort, the rickety chair lift ride was an experience in itself, combined with the chilled wind, certainly created more excitement then the view from the top. The weirdness did not end here. Locating ourselves in a youth hostel, South America's second largest I'll have you know ...

... hold it in his hand he placed them in a bottle (he had bought a whole box) 2nd incident. So theres this like fire lantern things you lite before midnight and let it fly off into the stars. Ours however never worked out exactly how the box dipicted and about 30 feet up in the air bust into flames and went spiraling into the neighbors house... Opps good thing everythings made out of concrete and brick here! Punta del este. So Now I am staying with a uncle for the weekend In a ...

Two days of being sick as a dog, but now I'm back in the game. Belinda flew out on thursday, so it is back to the hostels, for me. Punta del Este is a funky area. It is the super trendy beach spot for rich Argentinians. There are a lot of high rise condos here, and tons of little beach houses. It is also funny becuase there is no architechtural ...

Laying in bed this morning, I was convinced I could see sunshine through the gaps of the shutters. Unfortunately, it was still cloudy when we got up - late. After breakfast and chilling out for a bit, we decided to head for Josa Ignacio - which is a village with a reputation for being expensive and exlusive and a great beach. When we arrived, it didn't look that impressive at first - we were also hungry, so looked for a ...

We decided to head over to Uruguay to do some exploring for a few days before heading back to Canada. We heard the beaches were good and the people were laid back and that was enough to make up our minds. We took the ferry from Buenos Aires over to a little town called Colonia and spent a few hours wandering the streets of this little colonial town. There wasn´t too much ...

... to one of the beaches. Also watched "Little Miss Sunshine" here, giving an interesting portrait of a dysfunctional famliy entering the daugther into a pagent contest. Fun! Did not do much else than going to the beach, read, learn spanish, have dinner and be social. Got some good tips from Jeff about what to do in Bolivia and Colombia.

... for my fans. I wanted them to think us Canadians knew how to drink. I impressed them, but the end result was, I slept real good that night, after I was sick for a hour or so. The next day brought sunshine again and we continued on to Punta del Este with a 60 mile detour after I took the wrong highway. What makes this type of Holiday so special is the unpredictability. You never know what the next ...

... actress, producer etc. You name it. We even thought we saw Madonna eating two fried eggs (sunny side up) one breakfast morning. Not sure if it was her under all the make-up and designer sunwear, but at least Naomi Campbell was in town during our stay. No matter what, I am pretty sure I am the first backpacker ever to have set my dirty feet in the Mantra jacuzzi while at the same time ordering US $15 burgers on room service. That should be recognized, even though I ...