Montevideo - April 2012

From Buenos Aires, it's really easy to jump across the pond to Uruguay. A short ferry ride will take you to Colonia, Uruguay, where you can stay (it's supposed to be very pretty) or jump on a transfer bus to Montevideo - which is what we did. There is 2 options for the ferry, the 1 hour speed ferry which is more expensive, and the 3 hour leisurely cruise ferry which is cheaper. Obviously, we took the cheaper option, because we're tight, and don't have jobs. WRONG! Turns out it was a long weekend and every single person in the entire of Buenos Aires was on the same ferry. It was supposed to set sail at 9am, we didn't even leave the dock till 11am because of the customs queue, and although we were supposed to land in Montevideo in the early afternoon and make the most of our half day there, instead we arrived at like 6 pm! Not really enough time to get to know a city.
So once we got to Montevideo we caught a taxi (after a failed bus catching atempt) to our hostel. Our hostel wasn't exactly in the central city, it was out somewhere near the coast. So once we'd checked in we literally dumped our stuff and set off for dinner - our tummies were rumbling! We came across a mall, where we ate McDonalds wraps and snickers McFlurries, then we bought tickets for the screening of "Los Vengadores' (The Avengers) which was luckily in English with Spanish substitles.

So that was our visit to Montevideo, Maccas, Movies, and very little else.
We booked bus tickets to Punte Del Este for the following day (midday) so set off in the morning and that was that.

The only photo I took of Montevideo - at the cinema with our 3D glasses on.