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Punta del Diablo Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Punta del Diablo, Uruguay
My new word... PLANLESSLY
This is a top pick! Punta del Diablo ... or The Devil's Point... is a tiny fishing village in eastern Uruguay that might have about 50 year-round residents. But the place is famous among South Americans as a low-key beach resort. During the ...
The Devil, the Glasshouse and the Knicker thief!
This is a top pick! ... a conversation with us wherever we are and try their best to understand our faltering Spanish. It was quite hard to see where Punta del Diabolo (Devil's point) got it's name from when we arrived. It's a tiny fishing village built on sand dunes next to ...
Punta del Diablo - Day 32-37
This is a top pick! ... . After carnival I'll change these lazy nocturnal habits, or maybe this what south America does to you. Another relaxed day in Punta del Diablo today and another late night, obviously! Day 37 - 12/02/09 Hung around the Cabanas for most of the ...
Last few days in Uruguay before hitting Brazil...
This is a top pick! ... ‘No the mine’. The Uruguayan government are planning on allowing an open air iron mine being built inland in Uruguay and then a canal and port to transport the goods to the sea which would destroy all the unspoilt beaches that we have ...
Devils and Widows...
Why is Sebastian smiling? Sebastian shares ownership of a great hostel, Hostel de la Viuda, in Punta del Diablo, Uruguay, with his girlfriend, Guada. This was potentially the best hostel we have stayed in throughout our travels so far and ...
Our own shack
So we left Punta Del Este, and headed east to Punta Del Diablo, the journey took about 4 hours and took us through miles and miles of Uruguayan countryside, which was only interspersed with a few small towns on the way. When we arrived, we found a shop ...
El viejo y el mar.
... out. On the word of a fellow traveller and an insignificant sentence in our travel guide, Natalie and I decided to go to Punta del Diablo, Uruguay. The trip there took a total of 19 hours with a stop in Montevideo. The capital city is old and ...
Roaming with no clear destination in mind
Today we went further along the south-east coast of Uruguay to a place called Punta del Diablo and visited some remote village of Cabo Polonio to which you need to drive in a buggy or on the back of a 4x4 truck through dunes and large fields of sand. We ...
Uruguay
... , but this is not necissarily a bad thing except when it comes to drinking and riding bikes! I would strongly reccommedn Punta del Diablo to anyone who can make the time to venture north of Argentina or South of Brazil. Punta del Diablo gives ...
desolated borders and beaches
... a while, until we saw signs of our destination pass, and noticed the car wasn't stopping. Apparently "Punto Del Diablo" sounds too much like the popular destination "Punta Del Este", so the car eventually stopped way too far (luckily only a few miles) and ...
Punta del Diablo
We left in the morning travelling along the coast road to Punta del Diablo, a little surf town which we had heard is really cool. It also was pretty deserted, as we had expected, and was a really nice little town, there has been considerable development ...
Punta Del Diablo
After impulsively deciding to skip Montevideo until the weekend for Punta Del Diablo I am at this 'secluded' and 'isolated' resort. These words unfortunately are those of Lonely Planet and this resort so far seems to be just packed full of Lonely Planet ...
On The Road Again
... dog on the beach overlooking a violent sea. The next morning we got on our merry way to the much talked about Punta del Diablo which Lonely Planet describes as the anti-Punta del Este. Spending the last 3 nights in undesirable locations had us hoping ...
Downtime in Uruguay..
... golf buggy and scooted around the town (it took under an hour..) and then decided to head off the next day to Punta del Diablo, a highly recommended but totally isolated beach about 5 hours from Montevideo the capital of Uruguay. So the next day we had ...
Punta del Diablo 02. - 04.11.2012
... bt es eine hohe Anziehungskraft auf Touristen aus Argentinien, Brasilien und auch Europa aus und ist ein unter anderem bei Surfern beliebtes Urlaubsziel. In den Gewässern vor Punta del Diablo leben zudem Meeresschildkröten, deren Bestand gefährdet ...
Beach!! Sunshine!! Almost warm!!
Another early start found us on a bus to Punta del Diablo. It started out so well, the bus was nearly empty and the sun was shining. Half an hour into the trip we were having flash backs to our nightmare 5 hour bus ride standing up in Mexico as more and ...
Chill-out Uruguay style
... as much as 180 US dollars for a bunk in a hostel dorm, shocking. But we heard good things about a small village of Punta del Diablo, very popular with young people, cheaper and its main charm- extremely hippie and bohemian. It took us a long time ...
Sun, sea and a drop of vino
Arrived in Punta del Diablo on the NW coast of Uruguay on Thursday. The place was wind swept and the sun was setting as we got off the coach which took 5 hours from Montevideo, which wasn´t too much to write home about. We spent most of Friday and ...
Valizas- our house is a very very very fine house
so again...we got off the bus in Valizas only a short trip up the coast...with no real plans....we knew there was a hostel in town so we found that and discovered it was full. this is probably the best thing that could have happened. we went ...
Lazy days in Uruguay
... , it took a week Much to Bronwen's delight we decided to spend another week in Uruguay. We enjoyed a glorious 3 days in Punta del Diablo, a tiny tranquil beach town on the east coast of the country. We stayed at the ...
Caprioskas, Caprinhas and Cabbage
... walked bare foot back to tent to get some thongs. men! so during our stay we drank, slept, tanned and partied through punta del diablo. loved it. there are little huts on the beach where you can buy a homemade pizza which they give to you on wooden ...
Punta del Diablo
... and in bad moods... the sun had started to rise when we finally got to the small fishing village... Punta del Diablo was a seaside locality and had a population of about 600 inhabitants, mostly fishermen and artisans. Our Hostel was ...
Una playa màs tranquila y pequeña
After the dizzy heights of Punta Del Este I headed towards the Brazilian border and got off at Punta Del Diablo – a small fishing village with about 700 permanent residents, but increasing numbers of tourists each year. This was definitely more my ...
Punta del Diablo, Cabins, Beach and Dirt Streets
We took another 2 hour bus ride to Punta del Diablo. We did get stuck in a small town (5 hrs.) waiting for a connecting bus to take us to Punta. We ran into a couple, Alberto (from London) and Estelle (from Spain) who were going to Punta as well ...
"Ur a Guy" in Uruguay
... Hostel. Place to drink: Living and Bar tilka??? Nightlife: Avoid the shit bars in the CBD. What to eat: Uruguay pancho or hamburger. Punta Del Diablo – Point of the Devil! Definitely the place to be. Wind back the clock about 40 years and ...
Montevideo and Punta Del Diablo
... hostel, Ciudad Vieja, before getting up early the next morning to take the bus to our next destination, Punta del Diablo. We had heard from fellow travellers, Argentinians and Uruguayans that the village and beaches are something special ...
Laguna Negra 30.11. - 02.12.2012
... 'tzen und der dazu notwendigen Infrastruktur. Trotzdem ist es im Vergleich mit seinen berühmten Schwestern Piríapolis und Punta del Este ruhig und ausserhalb der Saison begegnet man fast nur noch den Einheimischen. Die Strände sind beeindruckend und ...