Las Olas Resort Hotel 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,

... new. We ate lunch on the beach. Beautiful, red, ripe and juicy tomato sandwiches. Real tomatoes, with flavor and soft skins, not genetically modified to travel well.

We pulled over to have a photo session at the 'fingers in the sand' monument, at the beach at Punte Del Este and could hardly get away from all the people who were interested in our trip. We had so many photos taken of us, on cameras and on mobile phones, it was getting ...

... restaurants and sun worshippers. Walking around the jutland we saw beaches on both sides and quickly realised that the whipping wind was going to provide us with an exfoliation free of charge. After a good look around we camped behind some shelter and spent a few hours catching the surprisingly strong sun, and toasting our skin an attractive shade of rouge. Well worth the visit, cracking on towards Argie Bargy.

Once in Montevideo I had to quickly figure out what I was going to see in Uruguay. I only had a couple of days at the most before having to head back to Buenos Aires and down to Patagoina. There were a couple of churches that I really wanted to see, but getting public transport to them would be difficult. One was in a place called Atlantida and required a 4 km walk from a point on the Punta del Este ...

Como despedida organizamos con Walter, Viviana, el flaco y Vanina una noche mas a puro morfi en el Conrad! Quiero que vean la impresionande fondeu de chocolate que una vez confundi a lo lejos con un jarron marron de mal gusto puesto en la mesa de los postres y dulces!!!

... and fries. Lizz informed me it was goat meat - always a time for a first. It was a thin meat and tasted really good - Lizz had a taste too and liked it. Two days later, Lizz had a confession to make - she confused the word Chivo (goat) with Chivito (the sandwich) which contained a thin steak slice. I wonder what goat really tastes like?! Later we went back to the beach as it was brightening up. The beach was nice and big ...

... days of this we decided to venture north to a little place called Punta Del Diablo which is very off the beaten track we soon found out. We took the bus up and it dropped us off on the main highway at the road that turns off to the Punta Del Diablo. The town was 5km up the road which we knew but much to our dismay not a single car went by on our trek into town. Once we ...

... nice beach weather and some time relaxing in the sun... especially after all that accumulated stress from "working" in Montevideo. I met a bunch of cool people here and my three day visit I had planned turned into five days. Surprisingly, I found no tribute to any dead guys on horses in the form of a statue or anything else. Oh well. Next stop... another beach famous for it's more tranquil and natural setting.

... staple in almost every meal. My friend Bob N would love eating here. You start with beef and add to that. A couple of the meals I have particullay enjoyed are ¨bife a caballo, this is a steak served with a fried egg (sunny side up) on top.¨ And ¨Chivitos¨, a fried steak served in a bun, but... with a slice of ham on the steak, all covered with melted cheese and then a fried egg on top of that and ...

... rain). But we had a great time no matter what, with lots of good food and drinks. And would you believe it, we even went out on the town drinking and dancing a few nights ;-) The relatively little time we got on the beach, we mostly spent on Mantra beach, our hotels own personal beach that also happens to be one of the most popular in Punta del Este (La Barra neighborhood). There's a couple of hundred meters walk from the hotel and down to the beach, so we just took ...