结束篇：One day trip to Uraguay -- 阿根廷之行(十一)

Believe it or not, it is just one hour across the river on the ferry from Buenos Aires. You will land on another country, Uraguay. Colonial Sacrament is a favoured weekend destination for many Buenos Aires residents.

Often, I tended to relate Paraguay to Uraguay, and thought that I might have opportunity to come across with the legendary Paraguy 乳神 (godess of breast??)。 It turned out to be they are remarkedly different countries. Gabriel Rey wrote that "Una cosa que los Uruguayos saben, pero no dicen, es que realmente somos más europeas que latinoamericanos" which can be translated as "One thing that most Uruguayans know deep down, but will rarely admit, is that we are really more European than Latin American. Misperceptions"

Uruguayans are the most Caucasian of any nationality in the continental Americas, North or South.

Sun rise on the Rio de la Plata





The tranquility of the Rio de la Plata



The Rio de la Plata

















A street to the light house 0014



Down town Streets 0015



Downtown Streets 0022



Old and Brick paved street 0033



Old and Brick paved street DSCN1214, 1223 0037







I was puzzled why a Swastika is used by this locally famed church.


Swastika?





The ruins of bull fighting stadium.

















The bull fighting was banned 2 years after the building was inaugurated.












Interestingly, El rio de la Plata has river beaches. Yes, these are fine, white sand beaches. 0100, 0073







Old town gate and wall in Colonia Sacramento 0077, 0083, 0088











A type of tree I do not know, on which cotton can be harvested. 0079




Portuguese style street, which is characterized to be sloped to the middle for central drainage. Interestingly, the architecture style is Spanish. 0094,



a Portuguese style, a sort of similarity to my hometown in 江南. A Portuguese styled house sits with Spanish houses side by side, which manifests 100 years of struggle between Portuguese and Spanish over the control of this colonial town. A typical Spanish styled street, on which water is drained to two road sides.



This country is too quiet. If someone asks me what might contribute this country's mortality. I would, no hesitate, say "I would be bored to death if I would live in this place:)"