Our hippie hideaway

After our not-so-inspiring stays in Montevideo and Colonia, we headed off to Cabo Polonio, hoping the hippie little beach settlement would be a great ending to our time in Uruguay.  And we weren't disappointed.

After a 4 hour bus from Montevideo and a 20 minute ride over the sand in a crazy truck type thing, we arrived.  There were a couple of hostels and a hotel, but we wanted to rent a little bach/hut.  The only thing was, we didn't know how.  We'd read that the local stores/markets would have signs up for places for rent so we went off in search of them.  We didn't find any signs, but a guy at the store saw us with our packs and asked if we needed a place to stay.  So after some negotiation we ended up with our very own little hut for the next 8 days.  Rather expensive (about $50 a night) but we spent bugger all on other stuff while were there. It had solar power and a water tank so it was more luxurious than we were expecting, but it was still a feeling of getting away from it all.  And so began our hippie retreat of lazing around outside on the 'day bed', reading, swimming, walking and sleeping.  Not a bad way to spend a week.

Our hut