Bienvenidos from Colonia de Sacramento, Uruguay!
We left our hostel in Buenos Aires this morning on Colectivo 152 to travel the 4km or so from Barrio Palermo to the Buquebus terminal where we would be boarding the boat to Uruguay. We had read in the guide books that traffic can be bad between 9:00 and 10:00 in the morning, but we never imagined it would take us an hour to get from one place to the other. However, we had given ourselves plenty of extra time and we made it to check-in and immigration with time to spare. Boarding the ferry provided the usual boat ride anticipation…moving through the walkways and into the boat via a portal very similar to an airplane door. The seating was a free-for-all, though the seats looked like someone had just substituted airplane cabin plans to fit the boat. We sat in a row of three pilot seats. We were in the last row before a wall and there were twenty rows at least in front of us. To our sides were similar sets of rows such that 10 groupings spanned the width of the boat.
The ride lasted just over an hour with fairly calm seas. The boat rocked and bucked a little but we weren’t troubled with any seasickness. Coming into port the vistas of the old town were fun to take in. It isn’t anything spectacular, but the change of scenery from the big city of Buenos Aires and the novelty of a new country was enough to get us excited. A few more gangplanks and walkways later we were ushered through security with a wave of the hand (relatively lax for the turistas) and onto Uruguayan soil we went!
We will spend tonight enjoying this small town before heading to the capital, Montevideo, tomorrow. From there we will be finding our way back overland to Argentina as we head toward Iguazu Falls…one of the 7 natural wonders of the world!
So for now…farewell from our 5th country! We are racking ‘em up…5 countries, 10 states and soon to come 1 natural wonder of the world (or more correctly…South America)!
Cait and Riley
In addition, we would like to sincerely thank our middle school math teachers. With the changes in exchange rates between countries, we would have no money left if it wasn’t for the mental math skills acquired under your tutelage. Muchas Gracias.
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