South America Photos 4

Home - 1 Buenos Aires - 2 Bariloche - 3 Buenos Aires - 4 Uruguay - 5 Eladio Dieste - 6 Cariló, Mataderos, Bs. As. - 7 Iguazú and San Ignacio - 8 Córdoba and Mendoza - 9 Cafayate - 10 Uyuni - 11 La Paz, Lake Titicaca - 12 Lares Valley, Machu Picchu - 13 Cusco, Pacific Coast - 14 Lima, flights home

South America Photos 4 - Uruguay

Five days in Uruguay! Montevideo, Punta del Este, Atlántida, and Durazno (the latter two for the sake of seeing churches built by Eladio Dieste (see next page)

on summer weekends, Montevideo teems with (flea) markets on the streets, featuring strange items at times, such as this black porcelain doll suffering from cerebral extraction

"Mercado del Puerto" in the old town

lunch in the harbor market: you sit at the bar and watch your entrecôte cook on the grill

clash of eating cultures in the ciudad vieja

Punta del Este -- modern highrises, fancy cars, and a steady breeze from the Atlantic Ocean

beaches...

promenades...

my bodyguard Gustavo and I rented bikes and had our picture taken at the very tip of the peninsula

the landscape in the interior of Uruguay, seen from an apartment building in the center of town in Durazno. The River Yí appears in the background

down by the river side; completely free and unperturbed, two horses water on the bank

back at Colonia with three hours left of the trip; the ferry takes off at sunset and we cruise through the dusk and the descending night