Country Info
- Montevideo
- Capital
- Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
- Currency
- 3,360,105
- Population
- UY
- Country Code
Uruguay Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Uruguay
19 hours to Colonia
So Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay is one of the prettiest, most dreamy towns I have ever seen. But getting there was a nightmare... I should start by saying that Colonia is well worth the visit from Buenos Aires as a day trip or as part of a ...
5 hours in Tres Crues Bus Station Montevideo
Hello Hello, So we´ve just come back from Punta Del Diablo, back to the city and internet and hopefully to hot water :). We´ve just got a few hours to kill in the bus station before getting the coach to our next destination Rosario. So back over the ...
Montivideo, Uruguay
... Just a day of exploring the city. It is a relatively small city, with just over a million people. It is the capital of Uruguay, which is considered a 3rd world country. One of our dollar is worth 24 of their pesos. And prices are very good, especially ...
Uruguay
Uruguay's just across the Rio de la Plata from Buenos Aires, an easy trip for a few days. I crossed into VERY retro Uruguay for several days, visiting the capital, Montevideo, and the tiny, scenic colonial town of Colonia. Well worth a ...
Day trip to Colonia
Ship sailed at 9am this morning for Uruguay and took approx 3hours. The days travel, city tour, history lesson, lunch and coastal vistits cost approx €20. We were a the port for 8am, luckily as the queue´s for immigration and customs were ...
Montevideo
The capital, a really non descriptive place really, we spent three nights here and I can~t really think of anything to say about it, we knew it had beaches but for the life of us we couldn~t find them until the last day, the plaza was nice but so many ...
Sacramento... not of California
its kinda like having to go to a certain restaurant and eating the local special because that was what was recommended and that was what the place is know for... when there is a UNESCO World Heritage site nearby, it is a MUST for all travelers. so, we ...
Village with style
From Montevideo it was just a two hours bus ride to the small town of Colonia del Sacramento. Here we checked into a lovely hostel and then went out for a relaxed stroll through the old part of town, which is listed as a UNSECO World Heritage. The ...
New Year's Eve
... in the New Year'. Nick and I took to the streets and watched it all. Beautiful lights all provided by ordinary citizens of Uruguay. We walked leisurely all the way to the club W Lounge in Parque Rodo next to the Rambla (esplanade) and Requena. We ...
The High Seas
... the Puerto Iguazu bus station! Sunday was our journey to Punta del Diablo (a small fishing village on the north east coast of Uruguay). It began with a ferry ride across the bay between Buenos Aires and Colonia, Uruguay then a bus to Montevideo, Uruguay; ...
Chicletas????
Ok, so I decided to give Dave a little say in what was said on the blog....plus I have already written about Montevideo...So here is Dave´s side of the story... Montevideo, We have been hosted by two of the locals here in Montevideo the past week. ...
Sea day
Today is our first sea day and one we really needed. Just to finally get some much needed rest. Last night was quite windy and this caused some problems. Dinner was a very quick affair, rushing through the courses so I could get back to my stateroom and ...
Belated entry from Uruguay
... to dredge up what O level qualifications I got and when, I've also been exploring Montevideo and other parts of Uruguay. Montevideo is where I'm staying for my time here, with everywhere else being within reasonable (and cheap) bus journey reach. ...
Homesick in Colonia
Just a quiet colonial town with cobblestone streets. Gorgeous cobblestone streets and colonial archetecture, with cute art museums and tourists cruising around in dunebuggies, golf carts, scooters and bicycles. Woke up this morning with ...
A day in Montevideo
This is a top pick! We were up early on Friday morning in order to catch a bus to Montevideo, a couple of hours east of Colonia. We arrived at midday and jumped into a taxi to take us to the hostel. Unfortunately this wasn't quite as easy as it sounds. We told the taxi ...
And We Fled To Uruguay
... that I'm about to complain that we haven't got under way yet when I realise we're half way there. First observation of Uruguay; it's very quiet. Exactly what we're looking for. We stay in another HI hostal and enjoy another high quality low price ...
So much fun with the name of this country.
We took a ferry from BA to Colonia, a few hours away. And we slept most of the way. Not a lot else to do really. It was dead comfy though. On arrival in this tiny leafy little town, we noticed the tranquility of it all straight away - the slow ...
Colonia del Sacremento
Back on the tourist trail. I had been told by my friend Laura, who has recently returned from her epic honeymoon, that Colonia was pretty, but touristy and there wasn't a great deal to do. She was spot on. Happily we had chosen to spend our three ...
It takes two to tango!
... the this on the web as to how long it would take things to go back to 'normal' should the human species disappear. Uruguay What a fantastic country and an even more incredible set of people. They are so unbelievable relaxed a friendly over here. It's ...
Back in time at least 100 years
Beautiful Colonia del Sacramento, on the Rio de la Plata, avenues of palms escorting the road into the city, stately old buildings, clean open plazas. Old town of Carmelo, a history of smuggling, cobblestone streets, quiet. Nueva Palmira, huge port for ...
Life on the Street
... in the city I was already in, I figured I´de just get myself that much closer to my final destination in Eastern Uruguay. Found a very nice hostel in the Palermo neighborhood to stay at, just a couple minutes from the ocean. This afternoon I ...
county #5 !!!
... from BA to Colonia that only takes about 1 hour. It´s a people only ferry, not for cars. The ferry to Uruguay held 225 people - a decent size ship. I don´t always understand the system here, but it was much cheaper for me to land ...
AIESEC Congress von ConoSur
... sehr international (Guatemala, Brasilien, USA, Kolumbien, Panama) ein paar Praktis und Cono Sur sind ja auch schon 3 Länder (Chile, Argentinien und Uruguay). Haben den neuen MCP gewählt und naja AIESEC Sachen halt besprochen :) und wie immer viel ...
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 ...
Punta del Diablo
Punta del Diablo is a beautiful, very wind swept fishing village four and a half hours to the east of Montvideo. We had been promised a brand new, fully functioning youth hostel in a remote village from where we wound travel slowly back west after three ...
Colonia
we caught a bus down the coast to visit colonia.. after an hour of tryng to find somewhere to put our backpacks for teh day - we headed to a bar for a few cervezas and after that they minded our bags while we went to explore! Was an awesome ...
Time to defrost and relax
Having such a relaxing time. I am in a small town close to Punta del Este, it is really great as it is completely deserted (I think that it livens up at the weekend with people from BA) but it is just perfect. Today I got up late and went to ...
Sunshine
... we had to do, was get rid of some cat food (whiskers biscuits) which we bought in Puerto Madryn, but didn't use all of it. In Uruguay we hadn't noticed many stray dogs or cats, but we had a wander round and found a few dogs. Anyway, we had a great few ...
some more photos....
Had some internet problems downloading took about forever. Here are some more photos of Punta del Este. Formal night was short.....it was very windy and I was starting to feel...well....not really all that well. I guess the my sunburn did not hlp either, ...