MATE MADNESS. (pronounced mar-tay)
I´ve gone as mad, as Uruguay has gone mad! I just can´t get over the way they are so addicted to drinking this green leafed glumpy gooey herbal gunnk that they do......... To me, it seems so bizzare! Now i know what it is for other nationalities to eat vegemite! Mate tea is ewww..and we can´t get used to the bitter taste of it. Yet Argentines and especially Uruguayans are totally addicted to it!
In hindsite, I´m thinking that guy in Iguazu Argentina, who i observed from my cafe table, was just having a ´mate experience´ sharing his ´mate te´ ´(and cigarette and money in the end!) with the street vendor, rather than, as i first thought, being the victim of a rip-off! It is apparently, so we´ve been told, ´the thing to do´ in Argentina, and probably here in Uruguay...to have a ´mate´ with a local! Hmm..hindsite is such a great thing!
Anyway - Here are some more pics of ´MATE´ MADNESS! In Punta del Este and Punta del Diablo!
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