Navigating the Argentine bureaucracy to get a real VISA is very difficult and expensive so most expats avoid doing it. Everyone who enters Argentina is given a free 90-day tourist VISA, which means every 3 months perma-tourists need to leave the country and re-enter in order to be living here legally. It sounds like a hassle, but really Colonia, Uruguay is only a 45-minute boat ride from Buenos Aires. So it's pretty easy to live here legally for quite awhile, and many people live here and make the obligatory visa runs for several years.
It's hard to believe, but it's already been 3 months since we went to Colonia, Uruguay with Sara's family at the end of December! So tonight we're boarding a ferry that leaves Buenos Aires at midnight. After about 11 hours of travel (ferry to Colonia, bus to Montevideo, another bus to Punta del Diablo), we'll arrive at a beach and begin exploring the following towns:
1) Punta del Diablo - A sleepy fishing village that's becoming more developed each year as more middle-class Argentinians and Brazilians spend their summer vacations here.
2) Cabo Polonio - A remote beach town that lacks electricity except for a few generators. Since there are no roads to get here, we'll have to take a 30 min. ride in a monster-truck/dune buggy over some big sand dunes to get there.
3) Punta del Este - A very developed and ritzy resort town where the elite in Latin America try to be seen during summer months. It's often compared to Miami or the Hamptons.
Summer pretty much just ended here, and January and February were the busiest months at any of these coastal towns. So we're looking forward to chilling out on some (hopefully) not too crowded beaches. Then we'll head back to B.A. just in time to start classes and work on Monday.
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We're Traveling!
Hey, we haven't really had time to keep our blog updated lately! We've been pretty busy leaving Buenos Aires, and it's really difficult to find time to write blog entries since we're both writing about 20-30 articles for our jobs while we're traveling continuously this month! We left Buenos Aires on Nov. 14th, we're headed to Chile, then up to Peru, and then back home in time for the holidays! So we may not add any words anytime soon, but they will come eventually. For now, we'll continue posting some pictures of what we've been up to lately!
Welcome to our Blog!
This blog is a way for us to keep in touch with family and friends and a place to write about our experiences here in South America. We've already learned in our first few days here that it's going to take a lot to make our time here what we want it to be. We have the will and we're finding our way...
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