Author: biggingeradventures

In Montevideo, we had a rather nice hotel that had a spa! So it’s fair to say that when we arrived, that was all I was interested in, lol

Next morning we did walk up to the big letters for photos…

Fiona found a beautiful cafe for us to visit that us to be an old pharmacy. Had a toast and a very weak chai latte. We then walked back to the hotel, which was over an hour away along the beach.

One other bit of exciting gossip happened in Montevideo! For lunch and one of the dinners, we went round the corner to a food marketplace, where there are over 10 different fast food types to order, and then everyone sits in the middle. Great for groups!

The second night, there were about 10 of us for dinner, and the waiter came over to me and said this is from a gentleman. It was a number on a napkin.

The girls got me messaging him, and Lucy searched the whole place for the guy after he sent over a photo, lol

He was from Uruguay, 37, and didn’t speak any English, so all the messages were going via Google Translate. We later found he had two Facebook profiles with a wife and daughter on one, so good job nothing happen. Very faltering to be called a beautiful blonde!

Today we caught the boat over to Uruguay!

After a short walk around the town it was back to the hotel for some well deserved rest.

Vlad recommended Campari cocktail so I took his advice and as it was happy hour two arrived…however they were gross!! Like an Aperol Spritz and bitter. Gave my second one to Blake to drink lol

Today we got up and went to the massive Market that lines the streets. Unfortunately, I didn’t take any pictures as it was so busy I was concentrating on minding my stuff lol

We went to the food market again and had a couple of bits too.

We queued for an hour for the cafe tortoni, which is famous for being the oldest cafe and had some famous people attend over the years. Was funny as we thought every time someone left it meant there could be a free table, in fact when we finally got inside there was loads of tables! I think it was a combo of keeping a line to draw people in and the workload for the staff.

I had a hot chocolate and churros, which were yummy!

In the evening we went to the Tango show which included a 3 course meal and unlimited drinks! Was a really good show.

We finally arrived at the hostel at 3am after our super delayed flight, straight to bed, so we could get up to say back to Flor with breakfast in the morning. She went to her favourite bakery to get us a sweet breakfast.

Today we did the walking tour, that also included the subway and public buses with Joy!

We went to the Recoleta Cemetery, which is where Eva Perón is buried, better known as Evita.

Next we went to the pink Palace and the surrounding area. One of the buildings has Evita on with a microphone.

The symbol of a white scraf is for the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. In the 1970’s and 80s over 30,000 disappeared and many of them women. Who had babies taken and given to other families. This group today helps reunite families.

A bus ride to La Boca, we got to the see colourful houses and businesses. This part of the city is very unsafe so we were given clear instructions to where we could go. The football stadium is here too, which the guys missed out on attending the match due to our delayed flight.

Last stop of the tour was the food market, which smelled amazing! We ended up having a snack in the Greek place.

The new members of the group arrived tonight and we went out for dinner.

We arrived very late into Salta on day 32 and went straight out for steak and wine, eating at about 11pm! Which is very normal here in Argentina. Steak was amazing, way too much though with the smaller one being 350g!

The next morning we went to a ranch and all bar Brad, Sofia, Katherine and me went horse riding. While the rest of us chilled out in a beautiful setting with amazing wine!!!

Once the guys were back we had a big bbq which was so good and of course more wine!! Had to go for a nap when we got back hahaha

Next day we went up the cable cars to see a view of the city..

For lunch, I ended up having more empanadas, which are basically small cornish pasties.

After that a short walk back, this church was right by our hotel so the focal point to find our way back.

We were then due to catch a 4pm flight to Buenos Aires, however there was a hurricane the day before and it messed all the flights up do instead was delayed until 11pm.

Salta is only a small airport so lots of tea, wine and trying to sort my visas out was how I spent the time!

We only went to Chile for 1 full day, 2 nights. Over to San Pedro de Atacama.

The evening we arrived we went for food and for the third time this trip I ended up doing karaoke lol this time was spice girls wannabe with Melanie.

Next morning we went for the best sandwiches and croissants I’ve had since I left home! The trip wouldn’t be complete without a trip to the market to get a magnet! Lol

On the way back we saw a carnival, I’m told they do this for about 5 hours!!

In the afternoon we went on the Valley of the Moon tour. A small hike up the sand dunes but the views were beautiful.

We also got to see the sunset, was sooo many people doing the same thing lol

There is a part in the desert that looks like Salvador Dali painting.

We then say goodbye to Bolivia and jump on a bus to Chile!

This part of the salt flats used to be a lake, so the algae that was at the bottom of the lake has turned into stone.

The best bit of today was the flamingos!!!

We then visited what looked like the Bolivian rainbow mountain.

We then saw Vizcacha, they live in these rocks.

One of the famous landmarks is the stone tree. Was super windy and cold here though so was a quick photo and then back to the car.

We then saw the red lagoon and more flamingos!

And the night ended with cake as it was Heike’s 40th birthday, we were in shared accommodation.

Our first stop today was a train graveyard.

Second stop was the Dakar, which is a car race

We then got the chance to create some fun photos in the salt flats which were great fun!

We had tequila and licked the salt, then the tequila and then the lime!

Then we went Incahuasi Island, which is covered in catus. Had a hike up the the island to the top and back down.

Tonight, we stayed at a G-Adventure project that is a salt hotel, this was multi share.

Today we travelled to Uyuni, which is the main town before the salt flats. We had all paid for professional photos as well as our own on the flats and to watch the sunset and the stars come out… so many stars it was beautiful but sooo cold!

With the professional photos, we had normal ones, sunset ones and then light ones in the dark.

We had late night pizza for dinner and bed!