Getting to Chuy was easy. We hopped on the 8am bus and were in Chuy an hour later. We planned to camp here while we saw a fort and Sarah tried to obtain a Brazilian visa. This plan went out the window..... We went past the campsite which was actually 15km out of the centre - not good! and went into the centre on the bus. We got off the bus, dump...

Lets review the hours that led to our arrival in Uruguay, shall we. - We were befriended by a very odd and interesting man named Juan. He help us to by our tickets to punta del diablo, then bought us a huge bottle of guaranna pop (the brazillian equivalent to red bull), while telling us his story. This man is a homeopathic doctor, he owns multip...

La gran sorpresa fue saber finalmente saliamos de paseo para conocer las playas del este de Uruguay que luego de numerosos veranos en la zona, siempre me quedo pendiente! Tomamos la ruta 9 en donde pasando la ciudad de Rocha tomamos un desvio por la ruta 15 para llegar al balneario La Paloma, que es muy frecuentado por la gente de la zona. En el...

So the night before I left Punta del Este I met a couple from the US that had rented a car for the week. Josh and Mellisa got married last year and have been on a trip around south America since last October. I offered to split the cost of the car and gas if I could cruise up the coast with them. It worked out great, because I wanted to check ou...

Chuy is the border town with Brazil. I had read that the immigration services were done a few kilometers from the town, I did not know why. I found out later the facts about this town, which explained a lot of strange things I had seen: half of the city is Chuy, in Uruguay, the other half is Chui, in Brazil. When I say half-half, it is literal: ...