Travelin Monkey

Punta Del Este is a fantastic spot. The couple of days I spent there, mostly in Maldonado which is 5 km out of the Punta Del Este center, I saw 5 brazilian cruise ships show up and fill the area with Brazilians. In general, this is the rich area of South America. All the wealthy (and I mean WEALTHY) Argentineans and Brazilians show up for the summer here and either rent out apartments, cabins, or houses or go to the ones they own for the summer. They have a mini-harbour area with 5 clubs and bars next to each other, sorta like how it is in Boston. The area is relatively well priced when compared to Europe and the US, but in terms of South American prices, it’s expensive. In Montevideo you can get a 2 liter jug of sangria for about $100 pesos. In Punta Del Este, you are paying roughly $350 pesos for the same thing.

They have two beaches, La Brava and La Manza. La brava is similar to zuma, lots of waves, deep water, but very warm Atlantic water as opposed to Pacific. That beahc is usually full of the people that are staying around Punta Del Este centro.? La Manza is the calm beach, there usually isn’t a single wave, the water is mostly dead like a lake and rather shallow. This area is usually occupied by the people staying in Maldonado. Unfortunately, topless sunbathing isn’t and hasn’t ever been a fad in South America, althought I did find two women partaking in such pleasures. Fortunately, the women here tend to have smaller breasts than the American counterparts, but lucious, curvacious butts that they are NOT afraid to show off. Most women are in thongs at the beach, or really tiny itty bitty bikinins that might as well be called thongs!

Makes for some good times.

We left today to go pick up my sister’s boyfriend from the airport, but the dumbass missed his flight. He was flying on Copa Airlines, that has flights that leave at midnight. He was told to go to the airport at midnight on the 4th, which would be the 3rd at night going into the 4th. The dumbass misread everything and ended up thinking his flight was on the 4th at night leading into the 5th.

We are staying in Montevideo for a couple of days? to show him around. I had made reservations at Mercado Del Puerto for the 6th of January, the ‘three wise men’ day that they celebrate here in south america, but since the dumbass lost his flight, he wasn’t there. We got hammered yet again and went to pick him up with the worst hang over of our lives. We left to go dancing at 2 am, but I’ll leave that part of the story for later.

Trackback URI | Comments RSS