Plans a' changin'

So, well, before my travels could even start the itinerary had to change.

The Atlantic coast of Argentina, between Buenos Aires and Neochea, is a mob scene in January and February. Basically, all the millions and millions of people that live in Buenos Aires decide to escape the steamy, sticky heat by going to the beach. All at once. To the same beaches.

And this year it's worse that usual. Usually, Uruguay's coast gets its fair share of vacationing Argentines. But this year several of the border crossings for cars between Argentina and Uruguay are blocked by protestors. You see, there were a couple foreign-owned paper companies looking to build big, polluting plants in either Argentina or Uruguay. Argentina vetoed the proposal, because of the environmental repercussions. Uruguay decided to go acept it. Except, the plants will be built on the river that forms the border between the two countries, and the pollution will end up touching just as many Argentina cities as Uruguayan. So the citizens of the town affected have been doing rotating strikes on the international bridges for a couple of months now.

Anyway, so the weekend at the beach turned into one last weekend in Buenos Aires, with a daytrip to the Tigre Delta. I left Buenos Aires Sunday night on the overnight bus and am now in Puerto Piramide, near Puerto Madryn.