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Uruguay for a day

A travel blog entry by segacs

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... What do you do when you only have a few days to see a huge country? That's right: Take a daytrip to another country. Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, is just across the River Plate from Buenos Aires, and as such, it's a popular daytrip. It can be reached ...

Away from the city

A travel blog entry by gypsymichelle

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I did another day trip on a ferry across the Rio de la Plata to Colonia. Both this and Tigre were very nice little quite towns, no horns blaring or fearing for my life when I crossed the street! I took the slow ferry over and basked in the sun all the ...

Uruguay- A Day Trip

A travel blog entry by jenny2802

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... stamp in my passport so we went on the slowest ferry (3 hours) to save some monies. We arrived in the little town of Colonia, which not all that surprisingly was colonised by the Portuguese way back in the day and is now famous for it’s very pretty ...

Colonia, a step back in time...

A travel blog entry by michut

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... . It was well worth getting up early for. Much as I liked Punta del Este, I have to say that Colonia is my favourite destination in Uruguay. It�s the old city that attracts the visitors, and you can enter by walking over the draw bridge across the ...

Off to Uruguay

A travel blog entry by will.traveller

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I am off to Colonia in Uruguay. At breakfast there is a news report from the ferry port. They are showing police and long lines. I finally find a cab who is reluctant to take me but makes it clear he is going to drop me off nearby, not at the ferry. I ...

From one extreme to another

A travel blog entry by clarasudamerica

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... Colonia around noon, after an extremely stressful morning. I overslept and literally caught my ferry by 30 seconds! Colonia is a quaint, historic town on the coast of Uruguay a short ferry ride away from Buenos Aires. I checked in to the HI hostel in ...

Day 30 - Colonial Uruguay.

A travel blog entry by jonathanlillie

... it is 30 degrees during the day.The ferry we got goes from Buenos Aires to a town on the South coast of Uruguay called Colonia Del Sacramento - which is an old colonial town with nice restaurants, cobbled streets, plenty of museums and old ruins to ...

My second country - Uruguay, just for the day

A travel blog entry by adammvb

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My second country of the trip, and it was only a one hour ferry trip away. Colonia itself was a lovely, quiet and small city. A colonial city as you may have guessed, but one that was fought for by the Spanish and the Portuguese. The Spanish won but you ...

if by sea...

A travel blog entry by cmj

... with me. But rather than do the sensible thing and quietly rest for the weekend, I took off with my friend Erin for Uruguay. Colonia is a small town west of Montivideo and only a couple hours by ferry from Buenos Aires. There's a picturesque historic ...

An Overnight Stop

A travel blog entry by sheerin09

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Lots of people had recommended that we should "pop" to Colonia de Sacramento if we ventured into Uruguay. Colonia was a quick, three hour bus journey from Montevideo, which in terms of travel, is a piffling amount by South American standards. The ...

Uruguay

A travel blog entry by treasaor

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... for our visit the place was really pretty and packed with charm (We don't think our pictures do it justice!). And Uruguay definitely has the friendliest dogs of the South American countries we've visited!! And really good ice-cream (yum yum!). ...

Colonia - Our last Unesco World Heritage Site

A travel blog entry by candcthai

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We leave Montevideo on yet another cramped and sweaty bus for the UNESCO World Heritage City of Colonia del Sacremento which is just across the River Plate from Buenos Aires. This is a beautiful town with a lot of well preserved colonial ...

Colonial Colonia in Uruguay

A travel blog entry by americantale

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To break up our trip to Buenos Aires we took in a day trip to Colonia in Uruguay as we could get a 1 hour ferry ride and come back the same evening. It's a UNESCO world heritage site and it's name is very fitting - Something very colonial about Colonia! ...

Didn't stay in Montevideo very long.

A travel blog entry by bangkokrandy

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... sleep on the night bus, I decided to get on another bus for a three-hour ride to the place that I really wanted to visit: Colonia del Sacramento, one of the few (if not the only) colonial towns on this side of South America. And it's gorgeous! It ...

Colonia

A travel blog entry by fishyfive5

Okay...if you plan to come to Uruguay make a little port town called Colonia more than just a notch on your city checklist. Fortunately mine was a notch that I got to "check off", but it doesn't totally count. I managed to make the very most ...

A cute little place

A travel blog entry by sarahpearl

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linda y tranquilo (pretty and relaxing)

A travel blog entry by ilovemonkeys

i spent just one day in the pretty colonial town of colonia del sacrimento. it is small and remarkably quiet considering how popular it is with tourists (from abroad as well as uruguay and argentina). it is filled with cobbled streets and remarkably ...

01/06/05

A travel blog entry by lgonzi

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... of glasses of wine I was persuaded to have an "old time" photo taken where I and Paula dressed up in 1920s outfits whilst the guys dressed up like 1800s law men (strange, I know) and had our photo taken. Colonia is nice, best visited in summer ...

The old town of Colonia del Sacramento

A travel blog entry by christianbjork

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... would be the translation of that, I suppose). I took the slow boat, which takes 3 hours, but since Buenos Aires is an hour behind Uruguay, I arrive at 10pm local time. Then I take a train (I guess it's something like the metro or something?) out to my ...

A Colonia del Sacramento Momento

A travel blog entry by jameshopkinson

... a nice relaxed time. Wednesday 30th March We walked down to the bus station, catching the bus to Montevideo.....Uruguay`s capital. We only had a short stay in Colonia but it was such a small place there wasn`t much to do in this little cracker of a ...

Over The Water

A travel blog entry by jl_bigtrip

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... by plane, bus, even walking ( Peru – Bolivia ) and now find ourselves crossing from Argentina to Uruguay by ferry ! The old Portuguese settlement of Colonia de Sacremento lies just across the bay from Buenos Aires, and is an easy 2 hr crossing by ...

Three countries in three days

A travel blog entry by carrillo

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... a night bus the next day to Buenos Aires, arrived at 8 AM, and caught an 11:00 ferry to Colonial del Sacramento, Uruguay. It is a beautiful, colonial town with great people and a charming atmosphere. Having been founded in the mid-1600s, there is a lot ...

In with the Pretty Port Town

A travel blog entry by vmuise

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Hola Everybody, Bruce here again It is 8pm here in Colonia, Uruguay, the first town founded by Europeans in the country (or possibly South America?). It is a pretty little port town about 1:15 hr to the east of Buenos Aires. It is rather humid and ...

Uruguay, Colonia del Sacramento

A travel blog entry by tsargood

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... . She showed us the letter, which seemed to feature the date 30th July and told us in the future we would need to get a visa to visit Uruguay, but it would be ok this time. So we made it onto the boat for the short trip across the Rio de la Plata to ...

Last stop Uruguay

A travel blog entry by benyclaire

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... getting out of bed, we were back on our way to Montevideo – where we collected our bags, before heading straight onto Colonia del Sacramento; a cute city with cobbled streets, on the Rio de la Plata (River Plate). We arrived mid afternoon and spent ...

The first port in Uruguay

A travel blog entry by kmtour09

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Hola, After a great time in Buenos Aires we made the short ferry trip across the River Plate to Uruguay and the small historical town of Colonia, it's a cute little town with a few cafes and restaurants but not a lot more. The best way to see around is ...

A whole weekend in one square mile

A travel blog entry by beglisc

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This weekend, Isobel and I took the ferry across the River Plata (40 km, if I remember rightly) to Uruguay. This is a popular destination on a sunny weekend, and we joined hundreds of travelers on the VERY VERY big ferry that makes the trip in ...

Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay

A travel blog entry by allisonakemi

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I thought Montevideo was a cute little city... Colonia del Sacramento is TINY. There are probably less than 25 streets in this entire city- and even I can not seem to get lost! :) This is my kind of town!!! The weather is ...

I like your sleeves, they�re real big

A travel blog entry by merkdog4

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... one over on me) and he meagerly nods his head. The boat is hot as hell and I sweat more on the ride to Uruguay than Kobe Bryant during his rape trial. I arrive in Colonial del Sacramento which was declared an Unesco Heritage Site and is more ...

Colonia del Sacramento

A travel blog entry by guyandcalum

... sea is brown because the river that leads into it nreaby has loads of sediment. Also the weather wasn�t great. Everyone drives scooters in Uruguay, and mate is a massive thing, as it is in Argentina. Its a hot drink, like a herby tea kind of thing, and ...

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