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Rocha Slideshow
Rocha
Travel Blogs from Rocha, Uruguay
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King for a day, ...or for a week actually.
This is a top pick! I'm flying from Buenos Aires and back to Europe in two days, and my last week down here in Latin America I have spent in Punta del Este with a very good friend. We happened to get a very good deal at an ultra fancy (backpacker) spa and casino resort, so ...
Farewelling Pablo and a New Travel Partner...
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La Pedrera- fiesta de carneval
so we arrived off our bus onto a sandy street in La Pedrera with little to no plans. lauren had heard great things about this town from an australian at the hostel in montevideo so we figured we should check it out. with all our ...
Uruguay´s Coast
We read that this is South America´s number two playground spot behind Rio. Being there in the off season requires us to use a little imagination, but there is no doubt that this is a resort town with a lot of ...
El Charabon
... ' and indeed there were two rheas (nandu) on the grounds. The estancia is located some 220 km from Montevideo in the province of Rocha which is northeast of the capital, and not far from the coast. The estancia sits on the highest point in the region and ...
Just this side of the pretty resort, please.
Maldonado, the older and cheaper sister city from glitzy Punta del Este, was where we planned to spend the night. We could save a lot of money by walking to Punta during the day, and it was a pretty walk along the beach. Magdalena dropped off ...
Pretty, pretty!
A Hotel to Forget. (Remembered with Advantages). I"ve slept in some odd places, on stations, in parks, in posh hotels, poor hotels, in doorways and even in police cells; the night in Carmelo was different indeed. Entering the hotel ...
After 10 days, Oh so casual in Uruguay
They say the Spanish always put things off until "manyana" but here in Uruguay that is not the case. Here they do things when they feel like it, maybe now ,maybe later, may even be "manyana" or perhaps they won"t bother to do it at all. These people are ...
The Ranch
... 's actually the 12th and we´re in Argentina, not Uruguay - but I´ll let you know about that in another entry. Anyway, back in Uruguay ... we arrived at the ranch via bus and were then picked up by Juan, the owner of the ranch, in a minibus. The ranch ...
Lifestyles of the rich, famous, and ordinary
Not being part of the jet set by any means, we thought it best to make a day trip of our next destination: Punte del Este. Punte del Este is the largest and most famous resort area on the Uruguayian Riveria and is a favorite destination for glamorous ...
Periapolis beach
... This is an individual scene, similar to many others but it is certainly different from anything else I have ever seen.--- Uruguay, I like you! ...
Cold and windy Beaches :(
... restaurant and some Uruguayan wine. Needless to say i woke up with a nasty hang over this morning and boarded a bus to a town called Rocha a further hour and a half north. Stopped here for the day and will do a day tour of a beach 45 minutes east ...
La Pedrera
... 'rchen geführt, sie Italienerin und er Argentinier. Sie leben das halbe Jahr über in Italien und das andere halbe Jahr in Uruguay. Was für ein Leben! ;) Zuerst haben wir überlegt, nach einer Nach wieder abzureisen, weil echt nichts los war in dem Ort! ...
Sleepsville
... Christmas until March but given it is mid December, you would think things would be starting to ramp up....but oh no, not in Uruguay, two weeks to go and it looks like they are still building half the town. Crazy. Anyway....still starving, we comb ...
Not sure we can handle many more clouds!
... Uruguayans had told us that the real ocean experience is not in the Maldonado province where Punta is but farther east/north in the Rocha province. We cruised through La Paloma, which on a gray day, seemed pretty drab and beat up. But then we got ...
A whole lot of nothing
... of insect repellant, so needless to say I didn’t come close to finishing it! To finish off, we spent the nights sacrificing our bodies to the dozens of mosquitoes that had made it into our dorm room. I don’t think Uruguay has Malaria? ...
Feb 20, 2011
Christmas on the beach in Uruguay
Sunday, December 20th we headed out of Argentina. We booked a hyrdofoil to cross over to Colonia, Uruguay. One thing we are learning here is to have lots of patience when doing anything which involves crossing a border. The process to get our ...
Beautiful Beach Town, with Lighthouse
... diversidad de ambientes, así como también de especies, tanto animales como vegetales. Su importancia motivó la adhesión de Uruguay a diferentes acuerdos internacionales, como su inclusión en el programa MAB de la UNESCO como reserva de biósfera, ...
Don't worry, be happy!
À seulement 7 kms de La Paloma, La Pedrera est une petite ville de surf du Departement de La Rocha en Uruguay! Super tranquile, avec un style Jamaician, c'est l'endoirt parfait pour relaxer et Surfer! Il y a 2 plages principales; El Desplayado et playa ...
Unexpected Suprises
... in France and then stayed on and is now a professor of Latin American literature there. He still frequently returns to Uruguay, spending a portion of the north american summers in Montevideo. He escapes to La ...
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