We spent a few days in Uruguay inbetween leaving Buenos Aires and getting to Iguazu Falls. We got the ferry from BA to Colonia which only took around an hour. Colonia Sacramento was a gorgeous little city, a UNESCO World Heritage site it is an old walled city set on the water. We had a lovely dinner on the waterfront and saw the sunset. The next day we took our books down to the harbour and read for a couple of hours and Hayley sunbathed. The weather was perfect, hot but with a cool breeze. We watched locals fishing and drinking the famous local drink MATE. We strolled through the slow paced town visiting the markets, lighthouse and seeing the remains of the old wall and bridge. It was a refreshing change from being in the city.

The next afternoon we got the bus to Montevideo. It only took a couple of hours. Uruguay is so small, it was nice to just get a quick bus ride. Ironic as back home the 2 hours to London always seemed like a pain, now we praise it compared to our usual 12 hour minimum bus journey! Montevideo was cool, the hostel was awful though. Colonia was visually nicer for sure, but we still saw most of the main sights of Montevideo and walked through the city and by the port. We met Dinesh and James (some friends from BA hostel) and as they were on a 2 week holiday they decided to treat us to a lovely meal and drinks out which was so nice! Once again, not feeling like poor backpackers we enjoyed every minute! We ended up in the casino at 4am which was funny! We decided to move on the next day as we wanted to head towards Iguazu Falls. We got a bus to Salto, northern Uruguay where we could cross the border to Concordia in Argentina where you can pick up the pick to Iguaza (all so complicated, I was hoping for a direct Montevideo - Iguazu bus but no such luck) but to our luck (once again) a local guy got chatting to us, well we attempted to talk Spangelish as his English was probably worse than our Spanish hehe but he was a policeman and he ended up kindly saying he would take us to Concordia and do the border crossing to save us waiting the few hours at Salto...and as he lived there, we killed the time by getting a tour of the area, met some of his friends and had dinner and then all took a road trip across to Argentina! Its such a different world out here, the people are so friendly and give up so much of their time to help others. It was great fun and really help split up the 24 hour journey to Iguazu! We joined the night bus at midnight and woke up the next morning in Puerto Iguzau!