Punto del Este is a pretty major beach resort on the Uruguayan coast, very popular with Brazilians and Argentinians apparently, but of course we arrived in low season, so the whole town was fairly quite.
We still spent a fair while strolling around looking for cheap accommodation though, and ended up at the only hostel in the town that was open. It was a lovely place but quite expensive, so we decided to stay in a dorm and only spent one night (we arrived early though, and left late the next day, so we had a full two days to explore the town).
It´s a nice town, although very Costa del Sol with tons of skyscraper apartment blocks and big hotels. The second day we hired bikes again (after some fustrating and apparently futile discussion with the bike shop owner), and rode along the extremely extensive, and almost totally deserted stretchs of beach that seemed to just go on and on (and stopping for a photo at a cool big arty statue of the fingers of a human hand sticking up through the sand). Then I took a detour inland through some lovely forest before doubling back to the town. Then it was just sitting on the beach reading my book, followed by chilling out in the luxury hotel when the sun set (the hotel had a casino too, with the usual sad tourists sitting forlornly at the lines of soulless slot machines). Then we caught a late bus back to Montevideo and caught the next bus north to the town of Salto on the Argentinian border.
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