Montevideo, Uruguay

After nearly 24 hours of travel I made it to my first destination: Montevideo, Uruguay.  Most people have never heard of Uruguay as its a rather small country.  In fact, everyone I've talked to about it didn't know it even exisited, nor its relative location in South America.  I guess those geography lessons in grade school went in one ear and out the other.

Things went fairly smoothly upon my arrival.  After picking up my bags I caught a bus to my hostel, and magically was able to get off at the right stop.  Thats pretty amazing since I only had a cross street and no map of the surounding area to go by.  I would talk to the bus driver but I can't understand a lick of what they are saying.  The spanish here is a bit different.  ll = ch and y = jo.  Not to mention a bunch of other things they do like vos.  So long storey short I found my hostel (Pocitios Hostel) and checked in.

The hostel was located in the district of Pocitios and a few kilometers away from the city center.  This gave the place a nice peaceful setting.  The place was beautiful.  The dorm was clean, the place had free internet, and there was a big backyard for socializing.  Not to mention the cool staff and friendly travelers there.  I recomend it.

After arriving around noon I checked in, grabed my small backpack and went for a very long walk around town.  I spent the rest of the day wondering around the city, taking in all that it had to offer me.  Unfortunetely it was easter weekend and most shops were closed and people were not to be found.  A positive side of this was this beautiful city was now rather empty, giving its beautiful buildings, cobble stone streets a majestic ambience that can't be found on a normal day.

After returning to the hostel around sundown I kicked back and relaxed with my fellow travelers.  It was pretty fun to hang out that night.  Everyone was talking in spanish so talking was a bit difficult for me, but I manged.  In the end I made a bunch of new friends that night who I would have a fun adventure with the next day.