Trip to Uruguay

Two weeks ago (I'm sorry that I'm always a little late writing, but I haven't had time) three Germans, a columbian girl and me took a ferry from Buenos Aires to a small city called "Colonia", Uruguay (it took about 1,5 hours to get there). Colonia is a very nice city at the coast with a lot of colonial type buildings at the coast of Uruguay. It was a really nice place to see (see pics here - the full album of Uruguay). After a few hours of walking around in Colonia, we took the bus to Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, which has about 1,5 million inhabitants. Unluckily during the whole weekend it was very cold and more windy than in Buenos Aires (because it's directly at the coast) so we were most of the time freezing. Nevertheless we took the chance to walk through the whole city, went to the beach (FREEZING!) and did the whole tourist thing.

But do you really wanna know the truth about Montevideo? It's extremely boring! We arrived on Friday afternoon and we were done visiting all interesting things in the afternoon of Saturday! No lie! We just found out that Montevideo has nothing to offer. The city is not only ugly and appears like a dead city because we have rarely seen people, it's also very small and it's doesn't feel like a capital at all! It has one mini-center called "Plaza de Independencia" which was truly the nicest and most interesting place of the whole city in my opinion... Well, at the beginning I thought maybe I'm a little spoiled by now from Buenos Aires, which has so many things to offer and has probalby the most exciting culture life of whole Latin America (maybe together with Mexico City, who knows) but no - I don't think so. All of us came to the conclusion that Montevideo is not worth a whole weekend trip. Anyway, we had - as far as we could - a good time together and swore not to return to this city ever in our lives if we don't have to!

Carramba!