in colonia our last moments here in colonia  this afternoon we catch the bus over to  

montevideo uruguay but we still have a few hours  here so we thought we would take another little  

walk around the old town go up the lighthouse  today we have beautiful weather for that  

it's a beauty of a town you know yeah the way  they've kept it it's uh it's amazing far less  

tourists on the weekdays as well oh yeah yeah  huge difference huge difference from the weekend  

we must be about maybe 10 people walk  around in this area right now and uh  

during the weekend there were hundreds  and hundreds of them you know like  

but i mean big groups yeah tours tours and school  groups as well school groups children yeah yeah  

but definitely it's a nice place if you come  to uruguay you gotta come and visit this you  

know yeah it's more of a weekend destination  isn't that yeah two days i would figure that  

two days is plenty yeah to see what you have  to see here the old part that's where it has  

the charm you know and let's go check out  the lighthouse let's climb the el faro

hey

oh i made it the views are incredible i'm  up there really i would say they were so so  

no from the very top you did you barely made  it to the top hey i stuck my head out okay  

but yeah i'm kind of reminded of why i  don't really like to climb bell towers  

that one was very i felt claustrophobic going  up it's just the steps are very narrow and  

there's a ladder at the very end the ladder  at the end and i didn't i didn't love that the  

where the balcony was that the railing basically  went up to my stomach kind of feels like you can  

just like easily flop over anyways we're just  both people that don't really like heights  

and i noticed other people didn't mind it at  all so don't let my information scare you i'd  

go up for the views and yeah the price is very  good it's only what 30 uh uruguayan pesos yeah  

it's less than a dollar so less than a dollar  yeah it's about 70 it's about 75 cents to go up

i got some artisanal ice cream because  it's turning out to be a warm day  

this one is strawberry water-based strawberry  they also have like a creamy strawberry  

80 in local currency so like two us box worth  that worth it cooling down huh i'm very good  

there are quite a few ice cream  shops there's also a fredo next next  

around the corner argentine ice cream  very good stuff we had that the other day

tired from barking all day did you bark too much

well we've checked out of the airbnb we're at the  bus terminal now killing some time yeah there's  

only one like four or five blocks to walk here  yeah fairly easy fairly easy it's just our bags  

are happy we've we're touting extra tannat wine  and souvenirs at this point so like our bags feel  

like twice as heavy anyways so we've got two hours  to kill the bus terminal we found a cafe at the  

very end of here one of the things that i'm having  is empanada i haven't had an empanada in uruguay  

yet what kind did you get i got salami and cheese  i've got all the meat and cheese in there and yeah  

this is how we're spending our last few hours here  in colonia really excited to go to montevideo the  

capital city of uruguay i was there like almost  10 years ago and it's a place i really really  

enjoyed again it still has a really cool colonial  vibe but it's obviously much much bigger than here  

there's more markets to explore there's more  restaurants there's more sites more historic  

sites to check out so yeah i'm super pumped  that we're gonna have four nights there i mean  

the first day is just getting there but then we're  gonna have three full days to explore i checked  

the weather looks like we're gonna have beautiful  sunny days highs of about 20 to 25 every day it  

just looks perfect killing time now until we get  on the bus and we should be there around five  

we'll take a cab to our place drop off our bags  and then scout out a really good place probably  

to get a steak tonight so i'm excited about that  all right guys so we're almost ready to get on  

the bus so we wanted to give you a quick update  talk about prices so you have an idea of how much  

it costs to travel from colonia to montevideo  uruguay we're going with a company called and we  

paid 424 uruguayan pesos which comes to just under  seven us dollars correction i'm doing my math all  

wrong i got like the the converter app and i was  doing argentine pesos instead of uruguayans so  

we're talking 11 yeah it's not seven still  a good deal not seven bucks eleven bucks

well we made it we have arrived capital city of  uruguay here we are montevideo home sweet home  

we rented an airbnb right on plaza independencia  overlooking a beautiful square with palm trees  

how was the journey the drive over it was only  three hours so three hours a nice uh bus uh ride  

lots of farmland yeah it's uh this uruguay this  area is just like the the province of buenos  

aires in argentina the pampa flat land you know uh  some cows and some uh crops but no major towns or  

cities along the way no nothing none whatsoever  it looked very rural but uh yeah now we're gonna  

go eat because uh our lunch was very lean and uh  i didn't have breakfast this morning the gut is  

empty what would we eat here in the capital in  uruguay that you don't even ask in uruguay you  

eat meat nate okay meat that's it it was going  to be a tannat wine yeah a meat quest beef is  

excellent the beef here you know yeah i would even  say that it equals or better than in argentina so

cheers guys cheers guys hello cheers my first  meal here in the capitol we are having a don  

pasqual it's a coastal tannat from uruguay it's a  beauty it's a very very good one bonus is really  

good it's just so smooth for a tanak grape it's  very smooth and like velvety going down yeah we've  

we've had some aggressive tannants yeah this is  this is the smoothest one so far the uruguay is uh  

is making uh some nice wines you know with  this kind of grape and they are slowly  

gaining gaining ground quietly silently nobody  knows nobody suspects they keep doing stuff like  

this they can go really far it's a small industry  i guess but uh it's got a lot of potential yeah  

i like it salute well well well well the meat is  here more tannat wine oh he's pouring more tannat  

wine he saw an empty glass i saw empty glass  cannot be empty glass not allowed in uruguay or

argentina so basically today we all ordered  the same cut of meat it's called intricot here  

in uruguay and in argentina it would be the beef  yeah in english is this one the sirloin or the new  

york i think it's like the sirloin sirloin right  now it's from here in the back this meat here in  

uruguay is fantastic okay it's like uh these two  countries in latin america argentina and uruguay  

they're the champions of beef and they are the  champions of the beef around the world barn on  

i tasted beef from the united states from canada  from europe nothing compares to these guys if  

you want to go to the source and taste the real  mccoy you gotta go either to argentina or uruguay  

they're even it's the same they have the same  pastures so the cows they graze on these pastures  

that they it gives the the the meat the flavor  you know these are good it's good stuff huh  

yeah my dad's dish came with a lot of sides it's  got some green peas bacon red pepper yeah yeah  

was that potato yours was just solo yeah the  mini portion mine came with uh mine has a  

mushroom sauce and also the potatoes so i can't  wait to try it i did get a pumpkin puree you did  

oh well a great meal once again in uruguay well  sam cameraman always eats last oh can't wait to  

try this have the exact same thing as you guys  with a mushroom sauce creamy mushroom sauce

how is that the meat is just incredible the  sauce really adds something unique to the taste  

really rich i would describe this as jacketed  oh my totally decadent so i basically made  

everyone get dessert our plan was to go to  a bakery but when they asked us for dessert  

i just couldn't say no right it felt bad yeah  right felt so bad yeah right he recruited us  

we're not supposed to have this

it's good it's crepes with the dulce de leche and  ice cream wow how could not be good no it could  

not be good and i've got my own very own right  there so the amount of blue cilantro in there  

like that must be a cup full of lucidage  well no one's losing weight today

but what did you guys think of  the the place overall wonderful  

wasn't a great place for a steak  good meal good meal good service

yeah back at the apartment real tending that was  a fantastic meal that's that's one of those meals  

that you'll remember forever it was just that  good the food was exquisite the service was great  

very friendly chatty waiter you had a good  sense of humor oh man i can't believe we got  

dessert that was so good that's one of the best  uh dulce de leche pancakes i've ever had because  

of the caramelized sugar ended up scraping  extra dulce de leche off of your guy's plate  

oh man what a day so excited to be here in  montevideo uruguay we've got three full days  

to explore it looks like we've got great  weather the whole time so we're just gonna  

get a good night's sleep and guys we'll see  you tomorrow with another episode from here  

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