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As I’m sure you will have gathered, our driving direction for this trip is roughly due north for its whole extent. We began at Colonia on the southern border of Uruguay after our ferry ride from Buenos Aires and drove 7 hours north to Posada El Proyecto where we spent our first two nights on the road, as noted in my last post. 

From there we continued north, a 5 hour drive, to Posada Lunarejo a small bed & breakfast located in the Lunarejo Valley Regional Natural Park, in Rivera, Uruguay, the heart of gaucho country, where we have spent the last two nights. The inn, a refurbished 19th century country house, was quiet and tranquil and should have been a pleasant stay with the possibilities of access to local wildlife and interesting landscapes but sadly, mid-morning after our first night, the skies opened and we spent our day listening to huge peals of and booms of thunder, watching a glorious lightning light show while the rain pounded down in tropical torrents. No travel in those conditions.

The rain continued throughout the night as the wind increased in speed and volume and we had concerns about the state of the roads for our drive to our current location. After long consultations with the proprietor of Posada Lunarejo, Hugh found us a route on paved roads all the way to our current location back in Argentina, at Estancia La Violeta, in Chajarí province. The chosen route was considerably longer than one suggested by our SatNav app but the deluge made it vital that we stayed on a paved surface.

Why back in Argentina? As I noted, our direction is north and we simply ran out of Uruguay. We have crossed back into the much larger country of Argentina to continue our journey north to the southern border of Paraguay. 

Our first night back in Argentina will be spent at Estancia La Violeta and tomorrow morning we drive north to Hotel Batista in Posadas, on the Paraguayan border for our northward journey up through Paraguay and up to its northern border with Brazil.

Estancia La Violeta is superb and I would happily stop here for a considerably longer period than one night! It’s early in spring so the tourist season has not yet really started and we have the estancia to ourselves. Accommodations are wonderful, food is excellent and I plan to soak this into my pores since it has to last me for the next 3 weeks of hard driving.

More to come!