punta del diablo y la paloma
my favorite town came next, and is called punta del diablo. there were only about 500 people in the whole town, and i liked the small town feeling of it. here, an argentine couple and two german guys and i were able to rent a cabaña for a week on the beach for about $15 each! it is a huge hippie town and most of the houses were tin shacks or made of adobe (ours was) so i liked to tranquilo feeling. nothing over two stories high. since it is a fishing town, there was always fresh fish, and one of the local fish is cazón, which is baby shark. take that sharks! it kinda tasted like a mix of mackeral and flounder…i also spent two days in a town called la paloma, where we went to an outdoor bar/club that was as big as a stadium. it was cool cuz they had different music playing under different tents but since the place was so big, the music didn´t blend and you could pick the kind you wanted to listen to.
colonia y montevideo
i decided to take a boat over to uruguay, (buquebus) and ended up in a little town called colonia. it is only an hour or so away, and all of the streets are cobble stoned,super small and windy. very cute. but there was nothing really to do there except for ride around town on the scooter, so i decided to head east to montevideo.
the city itself is boring, (especiallysince i arrived from bs as) but the people in my hostel were really awesome…and i ended up spending a few extra days there. it was also an interesting experience cuz none of the backpackers really spoke english ( most of the backpackers in uruguay at the time were from brazil or argentina). the ‘beach’ here is nasty…i have never seen an ocean look dirtier than a lake. but i still went in, because hey, a beach is a beach. but the water is so dirty, that going in the water meant risking a color change of your swim suit. haha too bad i did not realize this till after i got out. lying around on the shore was cool, since there was a uruguanian rock concert we were able to catch. i had no idea what they were saying but it was still fun to listen and enjoy the sun!