Estamos en Piriápolis
Our next stop along the Uruguayan coast was Piriápolis… and we loved it 🙂
Piriápolis was also waiting for high season to arrive… leaving it nice and peaceful just the way we like our beach resorts!… A number of things were closed including… wait for it…
McDonalds…
Apparently EVEN McDonalds can’t be bothered to please the local population of Piriápolis and stay open all year round!
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It wasn’t all blue skies for us while we were in Piriápolis, but it just seemed to add to the atmosphere…
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Our second day in Piriápolis was however lovely and sunny – so we took a local bus to Cerro Pan de Azúcar (Sugar Loaf Hill) as we wanted to conquer the 3rd highest point in Uruguay! Uruguay is pretty flat, so I guess if I’m honest, I will have to admit that it wasn’t a really strenuous climb, but nonetheless it was very enjoyable… They’ve also built a cross on the top of the hill that is awesome and is 35m high… only 3 metres shorter than Christ the Redeemer in Rio, AND you can climb up inside the cross – you can’t climb up inside Jesus CAN YOU? – So how come it’s not as famous? It should be, as it was very cool 🙂 🙂
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There are other hills around Piriápolis, and if you’re there in summer you don’t even have to walk or drive up to the top of the closest one to town – called Cerro San Antonio, as there’s a chairlift… obviously if McDonalds doesn’t open in low season then the chairlift doesn’t either… we therefore walked up… it was worth it – the view over Piriápolis was great… and they also sold alfajor ice-creams…
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Piriápolis gets a big thumbs up from us… Next stop the big smoke – MONTEVIDEO!!!