Having left the hills in the East of Uruguay this morning we made the long coach journey to the very west, back to Colonia where we spent three nights about three weeks ago. Not planning to do much here other than leave early tomorrow morning to get the ferry to Buenos Aires, hoping the big city life won´t be too much of a shock after the tranquility of the beach and rolling countryside.

After sorting out how to do the trip in Treinta y Tres we headed 50 km north of the town for Quebrada de los Curvos (ominously the Valley of the Vultures) which really is in the back of beyond. A brisk 18km walk on the day of arrival through and from the nature reserve which was beautiful followed by another horse ride to the most picturesque swimming hole you can imagine (you`ll have to as the camera is long out of battery) and the next day a walk to the river a...

Having spent a wonderful four days on the isolated beaches of Cabo Polonio we have decided to really go remote and we headed up into the hills and valleys. We faffed around with buses before arriving in the town of Treinta y Tres where we are staiyng for a couple of nights as it´s a bit of a mission to arrange transport into the countryside. We got really Uruguayan and purchased a maté cup and thermos flask so we can drink our maté (pronounced martay and a bit...

Hello everyone, just a quick update as we have just spent four days in a beautiful little fishing village with no elecricity so no internet - we're alive and well, very well in fact. Cabo Polonio is very remote but miles and miles of unspoilt beaches and sand dunes to wander along almost completely isolated, the only downside being the stench of rotting flesh as there are seal corpses about every 100 metres but even that can't take away from the beauty of this pl...

hola chicos, Our week in Montevideo has flown by. i´d like to report that we are pretty slick at spanish now after our spanish classes but we still have a little way to go. We are damn good at asking for directions and pointing out whether items are on/under/behind/or next to the table though. Bars and clubs only really open in Montevideo about 2 in the morning, our classes started at 10am so leaving a salsa bar at 5 in the morning seemed like a reasonable thi...