After Montevideo we took a bus headed west to Colonia del Sacramento. We left Montevideo late in the morning and arrived in Colonia around 2pm. The bus took forever because they were picking people up and dropping people off, seemingly in the middle of nowhere. We had no idea where they were going to or where they came from. When we finally arrived we walked to our hostel, El Viajero. It was pretty nice, clean and a cool common room with TV. After settling in we walked around the teeny, tiny town. It's very quaint; filled with windy, cobbled streets. Next we went to a few museums. We bought a ticket for less then $1 that got us into about 7 museums in the town. Then we climbed to the top of the lighthouse to get some good views of the city and of Rio de la Plata, which separates Buenos Aires and Colonia. It was SO windy up there! In fact, pretty much everywhere we've been to in Uruguay is windy! Thankfully we didn't fall off, and we made it to dinner. We ate in an old tower by the water. Unknowingly, we ordered a pretty expensive bottle of wine. Overall our meal was good, but pretty expensive!! We walked back to the hostel and watched TV for a bit before going to bed.
The following day we were leaving at 5pm. We checked out of the hostel at 11am and left our bags in the hostel's garage. We walked through the city some more to kill time before catching our boat. There wasn't a whole lot to see, we could walk through the whole town in about an hour. We ate our last meal in Uruguay and went to catch our boat to Buenos Aires!
At the ferry terminal it took forever to get through customs and stuff! Leif also had to pay about $25 to leave the country, because he didn't keep some sheet we got when we entered Uruguay. We were never told to hold onto it, but thankfully I did. Our boat ended up being 30 minutes late. But at least we got into Buenos Aires by 7pm to catch our overnight bus to Iguazu Falls. We needed to catch a cab to the bus terminal, but we only had Uruguay pesos left over. Thankfully the driver accepted USD (which Leif's dad gave him before we left)! After buying some apple gatorade we hopped on our overnight bus. About 17 hours later (which included a viewing of SuperBad!) we were in Puerto Iguazu, Argentina!
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