Across the river to Uruguay

Our ferry in the port at Colonia.
We had to get up early for the first time in Buenos Aires the day we left to catch the ferry across the vast Rio Plata. We slept soundly for the 3 hours the ferry took to chug across the estuary and awoke to a much less hectic and populated place - Colonia de Sacramento.
View from the lighthouse.
This lovely old colonial town with fortress walls along the riverbanks was a relaxing place to spend a day and night. We wandered along its cobbled streets, climbed up its lighthouse and watched the sunset over a jetty. All very pleasant!
A vintage roofless car with a plant growing from withinA typical street in Colonia

We don´t know who he is but the bird is enjoying the perch.

Squinting in the sun at the top of the lighthouse.

Colonia is the oldest city in Uruguay and is located in an important strategic location at the mouth of the Rio Plata. Its fortress walls are testimony to its history of attempting to defend itself against invasion. Colonia moved between Portuguese and Spanish hands nine times over the 17th to 19th centuries, then it spent a few years under Brazilian rule before finally being declared a part of Uruguay in 1828.