EVS in the country of MATE: The coast of Uruguay

In Uruguay we entered the spring. However, last week's temperature makes me feel like summer time. The temperature doesn't drop below 25°C, nor at night. It is just warm all day long. At 8pm people sit outside their houses on summer-chairs sipping mate,talking with neighbours and not moving much... Two hours later you can see them still outside eating dinner, with sparkling eyes and smiling faces... Yeah, the winter is over and this is the weather we like.

Aguas Dulces

And as I waited more than one year for the summer, I do enjoy very much. I am warm 24 hours a day!! :) Gradually, we started discovering the coastline of Uruguay. There is more than 600 kms of coastline. Last weekend we arrived up to Aguas Dulces which is in the department of Rocha. From there we walked to Valizas where we found beautiful colourful and wooden cottages and as a surprise sand dunes. When we walked in sand, I had a feeling that I was on a dessert. Another day we got to Cabo Polonio which is a sort of hippie/alteranative place in Uruguay. All the musicians, 'artesanos' come here to spend summer here. It has an atmosphere of love and peace :) However, I did appreciate a bit more Valizas and Aguas Dulces because they seem to me more authentic and less touristic.

Aguas Dulces

Moreover, it is quite easy to wander in Uruguay with a backpack and smile. We sleep under the sky and try to recognize some new constellantions, because the Plough doesn't appear here. We swim in the ocean and walk in sand.

Morning and getting up

Typical cottage in the coast, Aguas Dulces

Valizas, a bit of philosophy - If we think local, we act global. Doing small actions we can achieve big dreams.

Today perhaps we open at 20:30 :) This is the attitude!!

Aguas Dulces, another cottage... if somebody wants to give me one, I won't say no :)

You wake up, open the window, see the ocean, have a morning mate, then you go swimming, fish some lunch and then siesta... in the afternoon-evening once more to the ocean, walking on the beach, watching the sunset and listening to the sounds of waves and falling asleep with millions of stars above.