Buenos Aires is right on the Rio de Plata (the widest river in the world..eh eh) and it's the river that separates Uruguay and Argentina. There's a ferry you can take from Buenos Aires to a town in Uruguay called Colonia in just an hour. So early on Saturday morning we boarded the ferry and rode over to Uruguay. Once we arrived in Colonia we hopped on a bus to Montevideo. The bus ride was about 3 hours-I slept the whole time and viola we were there!
Once we first got there we were so impressed at how tranquil it was. We were even considering spending some time there after our year in Buenos Aires because it's such a lovely place. The architecture is quite similar to that of Buenos Aires and the streets seem to be laid in in the same fashion.
It was so low key we realized how "break neck" Buenos Aires really is.
We set out stuff down and started walking towards the old city-we walked along the beach. Very pretty!!
Saw a HUGE display of strawberries. A little under a dollar a kilo which is like 2.2 pounds...pretty good deal!
On Sunday we went to a market in the middle of the city, they had EVERYTHING. From Electronics (that probably didn't work) to household appliances to food to tiles to retile your bathroom.
We were really trying to find something to buy kind of like a souvenir but we didnt find anything...it was all either too practical or too old and non functional. ha!
The center of the city was really pretty!
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