Colonia was a gateway town to Bueno Aires – Argentina and
who could resist a ferry border crossing. I figured I would at lease check out
the small town for a few days since I was going to pass by but stayed one day
too many. Jump down the bus and right in front of me was the tourist
information centre. Uruguay was really easy to travel I thought and superbly
efficient if not expensive for South America. If you read my previous post you
would know I was running away from Casino in Montevideo. Tourist map and I
spotted 2 casino within 3 blocks of each other ….. shit now I am really fucked
…. Oh well
Upon scouting out the casinos I realized they were really
small for a really small town. Colonia was a town no larger than 5 km long and
500 meters wide hence if you really wanted one could just walk everywhere. So
with a small casino that has only slots I was saved for a while (Slots ain my
Poison) but did ended up donating 100 UGY to the Miss Kitty slot machine. Damn
Captain and his Kitty ….
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| Colonia |
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| Jetty - Colonia |
I made a new friend in the hostel, Pai from Brazil and she
ended up behind my scooter that we rented for a day scooting around Colonia.
Scooter rental required a motorbike licence so the hard and painful 1 year (
plus 1 year dawdling ) getting that licence was worth it I guess. The scooter
was USD 25 per day and required either a credit card or a USD 400 deposit. I
choose the USD 400 for I knew if I crash that bike it will be more than that.
Scooting around Colonia we realized it could be done walking
but a lot of the town was just houses upon houses. Other than the old town
which was I think 300m by 300m there was nothing much to see but it was a nice
quint place to zoom and just pass time for a day or two. I was even starting to
wonder why the town was even a UNESCO heritage.
End of it we returned the bike 2 hours earlier than expected
and the fuel that we tried to re pump to full do not even take 1 litre. Poor
gas station attendant barely press for more than a second and everything came
spilling out again. Time get into Bueno Aires …..
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| Bull Fighting Ring in Colonia |
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