february 3 - 10

after a 2,5 hours boattour we entered uruguay at colonia, which looked like "little mendoza". a peaceful, quiet and nice little town, were cardrivers let you pass !!! we made a short stroll through the town and tried to get information for busrides to the beaches in the east. even in uruguay, you have to go to the busterminal and book your ticket there, so we had to go to montevideo to go further east.
finally we rented e small car ("el rochito") to go to the beaches, ok, expensive but very comfortable. we went to la paloma and found a nice campground in a park. you could walk to the beach in 2 minutes and we did some nice walks in the sun.
we spent also two days in punta del diablo cos the uru-guide said it has nice lonely beaches and is a non touristic place, still a little fishermansvillage. it was more like a hippiecamp and not non touristic, but the beaches were nice and we had a lot of fun in the water. after two nights we came back to la paloma because we liked the campground and the weatherforecast was a bit better for this region.