a six hour bus journey to the north of the country we got to the border town of Salto. its a thermal area so i think its just good place to stop on teh way to iguassu before we cross teh border back into argentina. other than that, its dead, even samll than colonia and nothing going on. so we wspent all afternoon yesterday at the spas. it was so nice and relaxing. me and andrew both got massages again and i decided ive have my first facial. for about a fiver it w...

The capital, well its fairly big i suppose. a bit over a million live here but its certainly not up to much. they still have horse and cart collecting rubbish, int eh cirrty centre and buildings are clearly very dates. apparantly montevideo was built on teh beef boom of the 50s which clearly shows.we had two nights here, thrusday and friday. as you can imagine there isnt a great deal of nightlife but as it runed out we had a couple fo good nights. during treh fir...

Arrived in Colonia by boat. Its just across the river chanel from Argentina, but since its the mouth its pretty wid and is about an hor by boat. very strange little town, Colonia is a very appropriate name. i dont think anything hasdchanged since the colonial days. very pretty but so so quiet...until we arrived. basically, trhere is nothing at all to do in this town so we went for lunch as a group and then the guide pretty much said the only thing to do is hir g...