Last day at Karúmbe

Today is our last day at Karúmbe. Tonight we are catching a late bus to the Montevideo airport and then an early morning flight to Rio de Janiro! I maybe writing again tomorrow if we have internet access because I´ll have a lot of time to kill. And by a lot of time I refer to a 9 hour layover in São Paulo! Then we fly to Florianopolis (south of São Paulo) change planes again… before we finally arriving in Rio (north of São Paulo)! Sucky itinerary, I know, but well priced tickets and we have more time then money.

Before we left the northern coast of Uruguay we wanted to check out the town of Chuy (pronounced Chewie, like the nickname of the Star Wars character Chubaca). Chuy is actually split down the middle by the Uruguay-Brazil border. Lonely planet wrote, ¨If you are not on your way to or from Brazil then you must be seriously lost buddy! Turn around and go back!¨

On the main drag one side of the street is Brazil and the other Uruguay. That´s kinda cool. The official border crossing is a bit further, which is nice because to come here from Uruguay we don´t have to hassle with customs. But as Lonely Planet implies there is not too much to see. It´s a small town, one main drag and it´s fueled by Tax Free shopping. This is a place to come if you need to buy something or cross the border, not to just hang out.

But it´s just one town away from La Coranilla and I still wanted to see it. I came, I saw, I bought sunscreen.