On our way to Buenos Aires in Argentina we made a short stopover in Montevideo for a day and a half. The city is very pretty and has many nice plazas as well as the harbour, we spent our first afternoon wandering around the city and having a few drinks. On the evening we thought we would go for a nice meal and a few drinks since we had been eating in recently. Arriving at the recommended restaurant "Don Pepperone" we got quite excited when we found a me...

Another 18 hours on an overnight bus and we arrived in Punta del Este, which to our delight had a clear blue sky and the sun was shining, which woke us up at 6am from our panoramic view at the front of the overnight bus. We checked into our hostel, La Lomita de Chingolo, a small guest house where we lived with a family. The owner Rodrigo took us out in his 4X4 to show us a few of the local sights whilst he checked out the surf for the day. The guest house was loc...