After the hike we headed to Rocha. If you look through the earlier entries on my blog you’ll find a slide show of photos from the last time I visited the beaches of Rocha and see why I just had to go there again. There are so many small coastal villages to visit and each has its own enchantment. We drove through many but stayed the second night of our trip in La Paloma. That day it was a bit colder so our beach time was limited to hunting for sea shells and rocks off the shore and we ended the day in a great mom and pop hotel called La Viola.
The next morning we headed out to Punta del Diablo, spent some time on the beaches there, found a hostel for the night to stay in and took advantage of the daylight that was left by driving to the nearby National Park reserve of Santa Teresa. There we visited a fort built in 1762, drove through the winding roads of the massive park, stopped to see the botanical garden and parked at an excellent viewpoint of the beach of Santa Teresa. All in all it was quite a busy third day!
The last day of our trip we woke up early and headed to see a few more sites and since it was pretty warm outside we decided to spend a little more time on the beaches of La Paloma before heading back to Montevideo. Adrian let me drive the manual car since I ‘ve had several lessons. It was a smooth ride all the way until we arrived at the beach and I got the car stuck in sand. Adrian specifically said not to go in that direction and for some reason I continued…the result? The car was stuck in the sand for a good 45 mins. Several people offered to help, one person tried to pull the car out with his truck but the rope broke. So we got down on our hands and knees and dug the car out of the sand to try and remove it ourselves. We were not successful and another group of people passing by noticed us struggling and jumped in to help us. Using their truck they successfully pulled the car out of the sand. Here’s to helpful Uruguayans!
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