In fact, this is SO quick I am not even going to make a link to another page, there is not enough!!!

December 13th to 19th 2006 - Not A Lot

In short, Montevideo is not very exciting.  We ate some nice meat, went to a really nice building or two, but fundamentally Montevideo is not at all dynamic.  There is nothing remarkable to say about the people either.  We moved on after 2 days and spent 2 further, unremarkable, days in a small town on the coast near Brazil.  Punta Del Diablo is a nothing place with a beach, the best thing was the SUPERCHEAP accommodation.  £6 a night found us enjoying a nice little “cabana” with a kitchen, bathroom, living room and bedroom with stunning sea view.  Truth is that the place wasn’t very clean, but for this money we didn’t care.  We returned to Montevideo for a night after this to break up the journey to Colonial Del Sacramento.  Finally, the next day, we arrived in Colonia.  Colonia is a pretty little UNESCO World Heritage Site that does warrant the day trip from Buenos Aires, but truthfully after 2 hours you will have covered this town sufficiently.  Our final destination was a town that was described by Lonely Planet as being “a place that you visit for a day and find yourself a week later thinking about leaving tomorrow…maybe”.  Well, to put it frankly, we left Carmelo after maybe 3 hours on a nice boat across the delta to Tigre in Argentina…thank all the Gods of travelling.

Put in short, Uruguay is the most boring planet on the whole of God’s Earth.  The people are as flat as the country.  It really doesn’t need checking out.  Lonely Planet is clueless and hasn’t visited Uruguay in 10 years….at least.  Save yourself the time and go straight to Paraguay to chill chill chill with the locals in the heat.