Montevideo, Uruguay Travel Blogs

A whole new country
Jun 4, 2006 (5 photos)

... in the coach station in Montevideo, where it wasn't raining - or at least not as much. The next morning, he drove me around Montevideo showing me the sights and filling me in on the stories, both the public and personal (such as where he shook the hand of ...

Met Celina for the day and got the shits
Apr 4, 2009 (10 photos)

... during the whole day!! (Add bleeding ears to my list of ailments)! Celina took us on a mini guided tour of some areas of Montevideo before I had to head back to the hostel as I was feeling pretty bad. Lorna & Celina went to the bus station to get our ...

and this is the capital??
Mar 17, 2005 (16 photos)

... crash as many rich Argentines banked their money here. I liked the romantic air of faded 19th century grandeur in Montevideo. Gorgeous restored early 19th C buildings stand right next to crumbling ruins in the old town and next to ugly modern ones in ...

Made it to ¨Youre-A-Gay¨ - Through the back door
Apr 3, 2009 (17 photos)

... grab one when you get here, and easy. It was a 2 and a half hour journey to the Terminal Tres Cruces bus station in Montevideo. Upon arrival, we immediately found the street we were staying on (Av. 18 de Julio) and thought we would be at the hostel in ...

Montevideo - Day 30-31
Feb 5, 2009 (15 photos)

... hostel, my first choice was fully booked so I a bit of a trek to another hostel which thankfully had a bed, the Hostel Montevideo. Spent most of the afternoon just wandering around the city. Visited the water front and the old town on this rather overcast ...

Montevideo
Jan 18, 2007

Montevideo is the capital of Uruguay and the last country on this trip. I plan on spending the last two weeks of my vacation relaxing on the famous beaches of Uruguay. Unfortunately, I do not have any more photos from my trip. I lost the last three and ...

Interesting city...boring post
Jun 17, 2007 (6 photos)

... . We'll are wrapping up our time in South America in one of it's most exciting and happening cities, Buenos Aires. She Said: Montevideo would be a great city to live in, assuming that you can speak Spanish. It is a big city with a "small town" ...

Montevideo
Jan 5, 2007

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Visiting the Centinario...
Feb 7, 2007

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UMPA
Jun 19, 2005 (4 photos)

... around the world. They always mixed up the Paraguayan and Uruguayan capital, and hence came up with UMPA. Short for; Uruguay, Montevideo, Paraguay, Asunción. After reading the magazine, I have for some reason always wanted to visit the capitals of these ...

3 months today!!!!!!
Apr 24, 2007 (22 photos)

... for 3 months we had to renew our 90 tourist visa, so we decided to make a weekend trip out of it and head to Montevideo, Uruguay. We took a boat ride from Argentina to Uruguay and then a bus from Carmelo to Montevideo. We've decided that the best way to ...

Montevideo
Jan 20, 2007 (2 photos)

Alex: Another early morning for the 2 and a half hour bus ride from Colonia to Montevideo, the Uruguayan capital, it also cuts the price in half of getting the boat to from Buenos Aires to Montevideo. After Buenos Aires, Montevideo had a decidedly small ...

Montevideo, Colonia and Fray Bentos
Jan 8, 2007 (14 photos)

Montevideo, the Quiet Capital We leave Buenos Aires on a super-fast ferry, arriving in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, in a little over three hours. As soon as we step off the ferry in Montevideo and begin our walk in to town, we realize how much ...

Operation Gringo Hunter
Nov 12, 2006 (2 photos)

... before on E-Bay...they're getting quite cheap, which is nice! So I left Buenos Aires a while back to come to Montevideo, Uruguay...a country I think nobody knows anything about. If you imagine Uruguay to be a poor, dirty, run down, backwards kind of ...

Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'
Dec 1, 2006 (11 photos)

... from Morgan Freeman's character, Red, in The Shawshank Redemption. Great movie! And that's about what it's come to here in Montevideo. After a brief injection of life from a fun group of backpackers that came through a week or so ago, it got really ...

Happy Thanksgiving???
Nov 23, 2006 (30 photos)

... post), I've appointed myself the entertainment manager as I need some excuse for a job to earn my free bed. So far Montevideo is OKish but high season is right around the corner so we'll see what that brings. Hopefully more blondes from Sweden. The ...

Across the Rio to Montevideo
Feb 10, 2008 (50 photos)

Being so close to the 2nd most mispronounced country in the world, we decided to saunter across the Rio to Montevideo in Uruguay. After researching online we got a package deal with Buquebus (similar to Stenaline) which included transport, meal & bus tour ...

Uruguay and back into Buenos Aires (Argentina)
May 16, 2005 (4 photos)

... it being sunny, it wasn't very warm. The weather was then rainy and cloudy for the next 3 days whilst we travelled to Montevideo (the Uruguayan Capital) where we had a lovely hotel room, a nice meal and drinks all for less than 20 pounds... we're so not ...

Happy Halloween!
Oct 31, 2006 (8 photos)

... impressed with my first couple of days in Uruguay. I think I may have come across a hidden gem... in many ways I like Montevideo more than Buenos Aires. MV is clean, compact, has a small population of 1.5 million, has plenty of sights and the restaurants ...

URUGUAY LIFE
Apr 3, 2003 (3 photos)

... exclamation marks could possibly not be exciting. To achieve proper setting, brush up on your quick Uruguay facts ... Uruguay. capital: Montevideo (1.5 million people there) arquitecture: beautiful, old. Montevideo has lots of big, smooth and white ...

Uruguay I'm okay
Mar 5, 2008 (39 photos)

... smell the market before you actually see it. It's a comforting blend of fire-seared meat and wood smoke. Formerly Montevideo's main food market, the Mercado of today is a barbecue headquarters, home to more than a dozen restaurants specializing in ...

Montevideo
Nov 5, 2003 (2 photos)

Day 271 - 272 - Montevideo Two more days in uruguay's capital and while it lacks any 'must-sees' or 'must-dos', it's inexpensive shopping has kept us entertained. Perhaps too well entertained. It may only be October but the life of a backpacker ...

Nice Capital
Nov 19, 2004

Another capital city to add to the list, although I am nothing like the Capital City Kid, but I do know that Montevideo is the capital of Uruguay, that`s where I am and that it is pronounced mon-te-vid-ayo NOT mon-te-video. The Ferry I had to leave BA ...

Montevideo and ferry to Buenos Aires
Oct 4, 2005 (7 photos)

... day! Such an incredible way to start my day. In fact, it made the information given on our tour pale in comparison. Montevideo did absolutely impress me. We were given a private tour of their "White" House, which is a UNESCO world heritage building. ...

Buenos Aires - Montevideo
Nov 5, 2003 (1 photos)

... BA's attractions (Cafe Tortoni, the cathedral, a museum and a pink palace of some sort) we took tyhe early morning ferry across to Montevideo, Uruguay. The ferry is not however a cheap way to travel (no return fares for a quid deals etc) and given that we ...

Montevideo
Oct 3, 2005 (3 photos)

... between each home\farm and clean. There wasn't graffity littering every standing item, as there was in Brazil. In fact, I didn't see much at all. We rolled in Montevideo in the late evening. Most of us just used the night to recover and get some sleep.

Montevideo
Apr 2, 2009 (8 photos)

We only had a day in Montevedeo and so we had t just take a city tour!!

Happy Birthday Christina!
Jun 20, 2007 (2 photos)

Christina became a teenager today! We had a rainy day of sightseeing to celebrate Christina's birthday. Berinice from the assembly picked us up around 11:30 in her 12 passenger white van. She was a fantastic tour guide, driving all over the new and old ...

Captial of Uruguay
Sep 28, 2007 (6 photos)

Friday 28th September  - Monday 1st October Montevideo was a bit of a shock after peaceful Colonia!  A very busy city, with an obvious rich and poor divide.  We stayed in a central hostel in a beautiful colonial building, and we even had ...

Home of 2 world cups
Nov 5, 2007 (7 photos)

We took the ferry over to Montevideo, we reckon soon to be renamed monteDVD. We met up with a couple of big American guys, on the way over, we had chummed with in BA. Both fireman and larger than life who really enjoyed me slegging them............ ...