El Palmar

The Rio Uruguay is insanely wide. It´s what the Mississippi would naturally be...relatively slow moving, pretty shallow overall, and beautiful. The majority of rivers that i´ve seen here are relatively untouched compared to how much we have engineered ours back at home. Although I´m repeating myself...it really is quite beautiful to see a massive river taking its own course and



That was the view from Argentina´s Parque Nacional El Palmar, named after a unique area with a surprisingly large number of palms in the middle of everything else. Like usual, I almost had it to myself.



These weird, large rodent-esque things with mustaches were everywhere. And they weren´t scared - thus making me slightly frightened!

Luckily there were some workers, though, so we stayed up late playing the guitar for one another and enjoying the perfect weather. The morning allowed me to explore some trails and take in the views. El Palmar turned out to be great, although there are huge threats of the vistas and water being marred by some incoming papeleras (or pulp factories) to accomodate the fertile soil in which eucalyptus thrives! Uruguay and Argentina have very, very tense relations at the moment due to this. Over the past year bridges have been closed many times to cut trade.