We arrived at the bus station outside the national park, and hitched a ride on a massive 4x4 truck to take us through the sand dunes to get to the village of Cabo Polonio.  Cabo could best be described as a hippie beach town that has rejected the modern lifestyle for a more simple way of life. The homes and businesses some might call shacks, I call them the embrace of the basic necessities of life without want for excess. However, some might also say that the simple life has turned into more of a money making scheme as thousands of tourists flood into this tiny town in peak season to “get off the beaten path” and disconnect for a little while, and the locals have taken notice of a particular niche market they can monopolize.

If you go to Cabo, go for the night. Sure, there is great surf during the day, cool artisanal shops, and a spectacularly close sea lion colony that practically lets you touch them. At night though, this “rejection of modern life” means that there are no street lights, porch or patio lights; it’s just you, the ocean, and millions and millions of stars you have only ever seen in pictures. 

After a serious stargazing session, we took a walk around town and ended up in a garden bar. Other than the bar itself, the place was entirely lit by candlelight and rather than walls and ceilings, it had trees and vines growing to seperate tiny rooms with benches to enjoy your choice of one of two drinks: Heinekin or a palm liquor made by a local in the next town over. Once we finished our moonshine palm liqour we made our way over to the newest hotspot in town, a local “brewpub” if you’d like to call it that. They made some spectacular beer out of their shack, and served stove made pizza to everyone hanging out on the lawn with ground-level tables and cushions... Pizza and beer by candlelight, with people jamming at the table next to us, pretty nice night... Unfortunately that whole “monopolozing on the off-the-beaten-path” thing meant we were paying far to much money to live in squaler in this chilled out hippie town, so we stayed the one night then took the trucks back out and headed to Punta del Diablo.