Travel Blogs from Tacuarembo, Uruguay

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The Gaucho Life For Us, Tacuarembo, Uruguay travel blog

The Gaucho Life For Us

A travel blog entry by squiresmm

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... usual ranch animals are lots of emu route birds running all over the place. These are not Juans, these birds are wild in Uruguay & originate from further South. There is superstition behind killing these birds so the gauchos let them be, they are not ...

Tacuarembo, the Gaucho town, Tacuarembo, Uruguay travel blog

Tacuarembo, the Gaucho town

A travel blog entry by gypsylifestyle

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We took a bus from Colonia to Tacuarembo in northern Uruguay. This is in true "Gaucho" country. The men in town still wear the gaucho boots with their pants tucked in and a beret on their heads and they ALL walk around town with their “yerba ...

The Birthplace of Tango, Tacuarembo, Uruguay travel blog

The Birthplace of Tango

A travel blog entry by jl_bigtrip

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... the Uruguayans, built the Carlos Gardel museum, located some 25km from Tacurembo. It is dedicated to proving his birthplace is indeed Uruguay ( well, they do have a certified copy of a birth certificate ! ) and Tango was developed in Tacurembo ( they have ...

Hanging out with the gauchos, Tacuarembo, Uruguay travel blog

Hanging out with the gauchos

A travel blog entry by shadow13

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Life on a ranch.... We arrived in tacuarembo which is in central uraguay at about half six in the morning and then went and crashed at a hotel for a few hours as pretty shattered.  then off to tourist info to find an estancia.  these are ...

Ranchin', Tacuarembó, Uruguay travel blog

Ranchin'

A travel blog entry by codownsean

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... much like the night before with lots of boozin´ and dinner and cards an gossip and boozin'....what happens in the hacienda in Uruguay stays in the hacienda in Uruguay. Thursday 5 August - Hacienda in Uruguay, You've got Talent The next day starts with a ...

Yee haa cowboy !, Tacuarembo, Uruguay travel blog

Yee haa cowboy !

A travel blog entry by samandtom

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So we were getting picked up at 11 am by our new farming family. Expecting a cowboy on horse back, when Mattius a heavily rotund man in a beret and suit trousers turned up we were a little surprised. He also drove a truck, understandable in modern ...

Panagea ... the gaucho experience, Tacuarembo, Uruguay travel blog

Panagea ... the gaucho experience

A travel blog entry by traylertravels

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... cowboy ranch - and wish that it had been longer!  The ranch was called Panagea, and it is about one hour outside Tacuarembo, Uruguay.  Juan Manuel and Susanna are the owners and they were just awesome.  He´s Uruguayan and she´s actually Swiss! When ...

Tacuarembo, Tacuarembo, Uruguay travel blog

Tacuarembo

A travel blog entry by algo_77

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Ville des Gauchos et également connue pour avoir vue naitre le célèbre danseur de Tango Carlos Gardel. La ville ne paie pas de mines et au final on a vu un seul Gaucho. Le musée étant fermé lorsque nous nous y sommes rendus. The city is famous to ...

Aufenthalt auf der Estancia Yvytu Itaty, Tacuarembo, Uruguay travel blog

Aufenthalt auf der Estancia Yvytu Itaty

A travel blog entry by jfamericalatina

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... So ist das Leben auf dem Bauerhof! Das war echt ein toller Ausflug! Weiter gehts in Bussen ueber Nacht ueber Salto (Uruguay) und Concordia (Argentinien) in insgesamt etwa 20 Stunden nach Iguazú, wo wir uns dann die Wasserfaelle anschauen wollen.   ...

un presque désert humain, Tacuarembo, Uruguay travel blog

un presque désert humain

A travel blog entry by skrynois

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Le reste du pays est parsemé de quelques petites villes, organisées autour d'une place centrale et le long de rues quadrillant l'espace.  La campagne elle-même semble bien vide. Les “estancias”, lieu de vie de gros propriétaires, ...

Sheep farming, Tacuarembo, Uruguay travel blog

Sheep farming

A travel blog entry by chesch1

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Well, the farm stay was awesome.  I did not have to shovel poop. We stayed with a most wonderful couple Juan and Suzanna and their two sweet girls.  They welcomed us into their home without hesitation.  The last group that had been through ...

Getting to the Estancia (a.k.a Ranch), Tambores, Uruguay travel blog

Getting to the Estancia (a.k.a Ranch)

A travel blog entry by aaw

Today we got on a 4 and a half hour bus ride from Montevideo to Tacuarembo (a town in Uruguay). When we arrived at Tacuarembo, we waited for a man named Pedro who owns the ranch we are going to be staying at. After about half an hour we got in his truck ...

We´re gonna be gauchas, Tacuarembo, Uruguay travel blog

We´re gonna be gauchas

A travel blog entry by ambermcd

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... could stay at hers if we had no money.....how lovely? Had to kill time in Salto till 3am for our bus to Tacuarembo in the middle of Uruguay - guacho country. Got there and had to find a hotel, there´s only one recommemded in our guide for this sleepy ...

Back to basics in the Uruguayan wilderness, Tacuarembo, Uruguay travel blog

Back to basics in the Uruguayan wilderness

A travel blog entry by jokeith

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... us back to BA (after the 1 hour boat ride) at about 6pm. All in all, I can’t say that I warmed to Uruguay. Montevideo was soulless and the countryside really didn’t offer much at all. The ranch was amazing though and that did make it all ...

Gaucho Time in Uruguay, Tacuarembo, Uruguay travel blog

Gaucho Time in Uruguay

A travel blog entry by helenandheid

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  Next up we travelled to Tacuarembo, in the heart of the Uruguayan countryside to perfect our horse riding skills and learn what it takes to become a "gaucho" - the Uruguayan version of a cowboy.  I've been on a horse a couple of times in my ...

Von Gauchos umzingelt :), Tacuarembó, Uruguay travel blog

Von Gauchos umzingelt :)

A travel blog entry by moeller

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02.03. Ja, Tacuerembó scheint das Mekka der Gauchos zu sein! Die sieht man hier ueberall herumspazieren, irgendwie scheinen ihnen aber die Pferde abhanden gekommen zu sein - oder Auto und Motorrad sind in der Stadt doch einfach praktischer ... Das ...

Oct 15, 2010, Tacuarembo, Uruguay travel blog

Oct 15, 2010

A travel blog entry by loiclaplatine

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Yeeee Haaaar !!!, Tacuarembo, Uruguay travel blog

Yeeee Haaaar !!!

A travel blog entry by lewy9715

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City Slicker!, Tacuarembó, Uruguay travel blog

City Slicker!

A travel blog entry by stuinamericas09

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Made it to the Uruguayan Estancia (Farm) in north eastern Uruguay about 100 kms from the Brazilian border. As this was a working farm had no option but to break my horse riding rule, although to be fair there are 9 women in my group. At least I got some ...

Ranching cattle across the plains of Uruguay, Tacuarembo, Uruguay travel blog

Ranching cattle across the plains of Uruguay

A travel blog entry by nlbrtw

... organic farm in the middle of nowhere which also runs a hostel on the side. It is about an hours drive from the nearest town - Tacuarembo, or 3.5 hours from Salto, which is the way we got there. We were pre warned that we would be driving along the "most ...

Life on the Ranch, Tacuarembo, Uruguay travel blog

Life on the Ranch

A travel blog entry by mkuncio

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... last few days. Our group had an early start the following morning which we would make our way to Montevideo the capital of Uruguay. I enjoyed my last night sleeping out on the hammock which had been my bed for the last three nights enjoying the peaceful ...

Home on the Range, Tacuarembo, Uruguay travel blog

Home on the Range

A travel blog entry by thequickes

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... he was a good player unbeaten for 18 months.  I lost 15-6 (but was coming back strongly ;-) ) The town nearby, Tacuarembo was hosting the annual Gaucho Festival while we were there.  There was a ranch building competition showing how Uruguayan ...

First Full Day at the Estancia, Tambores, Uruguay travel blog

First Full Day at the Estancia

A travel blog entry by aaw

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... had lunch (the food is really good here). After lunch was siesta. Siesta is an afternoon nap that people in Argentina and Uruguay do regularly. Personally, I don't like siesta because you need to rest or sleep or do something quiet and there is nobody to ...

Second Full Day at the Estancia, Tambores, Uruguay travel blog

Second Full Day at the Estancia

A travel blog entry by aaw

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Today we got up very early to milk the cows. This time I got the hang of it. It was a lot easier.  After we milk the cows Padro gave me strips of unprosest lether. Then he tot me how to make into a wip to make my horse go ...

Last day at the estancia, Tambores, Uruguay travel blog

Last day at the estancia

A travel blog entry by aaw

Today we got up and milked the cow again. The cow wasn't cooperating so we milked another cow.  This time instead of just Pedro and I milking the cows, my mom, my dad and my brother had a go too. Pedro used the cow's utter as a milk gun ...

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