Scott & Jen in South America

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Montevideo, Uruguay

While in Buenos Aires, we started to draft out the remainder of our trip. We found that it was almost impossible to get to our Brazil destination without first traveling through Uruguay. So, we made the most of it and stopped at a wonderful bed and breakfast in Montevideo. We would only stay for 3 nights, getting there super late the first night, so not much time to do anything other than visit the beaches it has to offer.

Playing soccer and paddle ball on the beach

Scott making friends on a beer and lunch stop.

Our b&b, and the two cats that resided there!

This is apparently a well-known landmark in Punta del Este, a popular beach destination that, unfortunately, we had to skip due to extremely high costs! At least we got a picture from the bus window on the way by!

next stop – BRAZIL!

Around Buenos Aires

After all the buses and camping and moving around we had been doing all through Patagonia, we decided to spend about two weeks in Buenos Aires to relax, plan out the rest of our trip and explore enough of the city to feel like we actually lived it, instead of just touring it.

We decided that the most cost effective way to stay in Buenos Aires would be to rent an apartment. While in Pucon earlier in the trip, we learned (through a fellow traveller) of a website called airbnb.com, where you can view and rent apartments pretty easily. After our 48 hour bus trip into Buenos Aires, we stayed at a hotel for a few days, and literally booked our apartment from there 1 day before “moving in” for 2 weeks. It was an amazing place, had everything we needed and then some, and was close to everything that we had planned to visit on our trip, as well as being 1 block from the subway!