Punta del este is a really cool little beach town. All the roads are dirt, and all the beach houses are small. It is the off season so it is really quite, which is nice but it also means only a few restaurants are open. Still, I stayed there most of a week. The hostel I stayed at is called El Diablo Tranquillo, and I recomend staying there.

This place is wonderful! The name of the devil but the place of heaven! We arrived here and found the hostel Dave had booked. WOW. The place is incredible but WOW. The hostel is not. Punta del Diablo is a fishing/surfing village on the coast of Uruguay. It is built of wooden cabanias sprawled along hills nect to a beautiful beach with dirt roads...

Friday 18th January 2008 - Punta Del Diablo, Uruguay, Temp**ature - tricksy Rating - suitable for all Aft** a slight technical difficulty at the Uruguyan bord** (us having no currency and no hope of getting any at 4.30am) a kindly driv** took us to Punta Del Diablo for a couple of dollars and some big smiles, what a nice chap. We arrived at the ...

This beach town was like something out of a Hollywood movie. All sand streets, small bars, restaurants and shops with handmade items. We wanted to find a taxi to drive us to the Fortaleza de Santa Teresa (about 10 miles away).The Fort was built by the Portuguese and captured by the Spanish, who finished it No taxi's in town, so we asked the poli...

Heading north into Uruguay for many coming from Argentina is like visiting a different province of Argentina - although the Uruguaians DETEST this sentiment. We had researched our journey north and booked onto the "Buqabus" ferry and bus to get us to Montevideo tha capital. Having spoken to many Uruguaians and other travellers were told there wo...

Definitely the highlight of Uruguay was this town, Punta del Diablo (Point of the Devil). Having come from a big, high-rise, touristy beach town of Punta del Este, this was the perfect antidote - a small hippy fishing village with no hotels, just lots of little cabañas for visitors to stay in. The one thing that felt wrong was the presence of a ...