Friday, July 18, 2008

Salto

So we arrived in Salto in the very early morning, it was still dark. We got a taxi directly to a cheap hostel recommended in the guidebook and the owner kindly let us go straight to bed without charging us an extra day (I´d had a great sleep on the overnight bus, but it was still nice to get another couple of hours kip in a nice comfy bed).

Salto is another very small town, and really it was just a stopping off point before crossing the border back into Argentina, so we only stayed the one night. Of course, since we´d arrived so early we still had a full day to explore the small town and have a lovely lunch in the Uruguay Club (I checked out a cool local art gallery, while Sarah tried to find a laundry (unsuccessfully)). That evening we got a local bus out to the main attraction of the town, a series of thermal pools. It was a lovely setup, and nicely quite, so it felt like we had the run of the place. After a good ´auld soak there it was back to the town for another great feed and an early night.

Next morning it was a short walk to the ferry that would take us across the river to the Argentinian town of Concordia.

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