Historic Port Town of Colonial del Sacramento

Trip Start Sep 28, 2010

Trip End Apr 11, 2011

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Hostel Colonia

Flag of Uruguay Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay
Saturday, November 20, 2010

We took the ferry, Buquebus, from Buenos Aires to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay. We took the slower ferry (3 hours) since we were not in a hurry. It was a very nice ride, not alot to see but a nice ferry and a nice warm and sunny ride.

Colonia is a small seaport town that was built in the "1600's" for exporting and smuggling goods to Buenos Aires. The small town is full of great ruins of buildings, forts, original cobblestone streets and some great museums. One of the museums had a unique display of dinasour relics, birds and insects from the area.

We stayed a a hostel that was in a perfect location. We were walking distance to everything, including the grocery store, bank, ferry, museums and beach. I worked on a blog one day while Vic took one of the beach bikes from the hostel and rode around town, he really enjoyed it! We cooked alot at this hostel once we realized that the food in Uruguay is not very good! We stayed for a total of three days which was a perfect amount of time.

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The Buquebus terminal	Goodbye Buenos Aires	The sun behind the light	The dogs on the ferry
Buenos Aires in the backround	Baby Walker	Kids drawing with chalk on the boat	The inside of the ferry
Miko looking out our Hostel room doorway Comments!	Front of our Hostel	The building across from our Hostel	Great old cars in this town
Walking in town	Beautiful spring fowers	Waliknig towards the waterfront	Cafe's out into the street
Inside the Cathedral	another great old car, still in use!	The town cathedral	paco enjoying the beach
The beach area	Artesan area	Sidewalk Cafes	Old colonial buildings
More spring flowers in bloom	Streets filled with cafes, no cars	Old matador costume	The lighthouse next to some ruins
Th old streets	Antique pistols and rifles	Some prehistoric bones	Dinasour skeleton
another dinasour	Another stuffed penguin	stuffed squirrel	HUGE beatle
Stuffed tucan	Vic by the old mission ruins from the 1700's	Fishermen down by the beach	HGE whale skeleton
Walkway along the beach	Buildings from the 1700's	Old buildings	Oringinal cobblestone streets from the 1700's
Great historic` buildings	An old painting depicting the past days	Vic having fun with the camera	Eating in an old car
Vic on his bike ride	View of the city beach	Bodies on the beach	More beach
More beach	Huge cross in town	Miko's friend in Uruguay	HGE whale skeleton