Day 16 - Thurs 13th Nov - Colonia, Uruguay Another early start!! This time about 5.30am (with some of the boys just getting back from their night out at that time), this time in order to travel by bus for about 3 hours to the town of Colonia. Colonia was a breath of Uruguayan fresh air as my experience of Uruguay had not been too great up until then. But Colonia was absolutely beautiful. Its a very old town with cobbled streets, a bit like Paraty in Brazil but ...

Day 14 - Tues 11th Nov - Montevideo After what felt like another lifetime of travelling and another early start we arrive in Montevideo about 3pm. Montevideo is the capital of Uruguay bit it is not really that large. It has a very European feel to it, old architecture, lots of plazasm cafe culture etc. When we got there we went for a bit of a stroll for a couple of hours round the old town area and found some markets and an antique markets in one of the plazas...

Day 13 - Mon 10th Nov - Salto, Uruguay We got off the bus about 20 minutes away fromthe Uruguary border (in the middle of nowhere!) at 6.30am and had 4 taxis waiting to pick us up. We then had to cross the border control (about the6th time in two days now) which took ages but finally we made it to our hotel in Salto about 8.30am. Luckily the rooms were ready for us to check into (although not very nice) but we headed straight into town to the currency exchange ...