Country Info
- Montevideo
- Capital
- Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
- Currency
- 3,360,105
- Population
- UY
- Country Code
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Top Hotels in Colonia
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Hotel California Montevideo
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Hotel Iberia Montevideo
211 reviews -
Sol de Las Canas Fray Bentos
4 reviews
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Arapey Thermal Resort and Spa Salto
61 reviews
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Terrazas de la Pedrera APT Hotel
27 reviews -
Hotel Plaza Fuerte Montevideo
184 reviews -
Joan Miro Hotel Punta del Este
12 reviews
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La Mision Colonia del Sacramento
31 reviews
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Gran Hotel Brisas Del Hum Mercedes
12 reviews
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Radisson Hotel Colonia del Sacramento
190 reviews
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Gran Hotel Fray Bentos
24 reviews
Colonia
Travel Blogs from Colonia, Uruguay
Beautiful Colonia
So, on the road again, or should I say water... I took the 3 hour ferry ride from Bs As to Colonia (very comfortable with a salsa show and class thrown in), turned up at the first hostel I found and booked into a dorm for the night. Not the best hostel in ...
Downtown Colonia, Uruguay
... Uruguay is about 10 pesos:1 us dollars, Argentina is about 3:1 and Chile about 1000 to 1 US dollar. The little town of Colonia is only a few kilometers away. Most of the motor scooters were being riden by residents not tourists. We would often see a ...
One final country
... to our tally. So we took a ferry over the Rio Plata from Buenos Aires to the gorgeous little town of Colonia in Uruguay. Colonia De Sacramento is a historic resort full of colonial Portuguese buildings from the 1700s, lots of friendly bars and cafes, ...
Getting to Uruguay
... ’s confusion/delight. But the place was great, and the price was modest. Everyone warned us that Uruguay was very expensive, but aside from seeing a $5 coffee on a menu earlier, everything was very reasonable. After more ...
Another day, another country!
... in Buenos Aires about 1.5 hours later. Next thing was to get to the Port in B.A. in order to catch the ferry to Colonia in Uruguay. We took a remise (chauffer car / taxi) to the Buquebus terminal at the port and checked in. Our ferry left on time at ...
Arrivée en Uruguay, Colonia
... au soleil. Du coup, nous sommes tous les deux rouges voir violets, les prochains jours vont être douloureux. Nous arrivons en Uruguay à Carmelo, jolie petite bourgade donnant toute suite la tendance de vie d´ici : tranquille. Tout est plus lent, ...
Conceptions and Misconceptions in Buenos Aires
I write this blog having left Buenos Aires (for now) for Uruguay. The lack of a recent entry is due to a language misunderstanding on another computer that led to a whole entry being completely lost about 5 days ago but anyway Buenos Aires was an ...
My Colonia, if only for a hour
Colonia Del Sacramento is a beautiful sleepy town in Uruguay just 1 hour ferry ride from Buenos Aires. It was declared a UNESCO heritage site in 1995 and its not hard to figure out why. The historical quarter, Barrio Historico is lined with Portuguese ...
Cute Colonia
Day Trip to Uruguay
We took the Buquebus ferry to Colonia, an hour-and-a-half trip from Buenos Aires. As foreigners, we were obliged to purchase the first class tickets, which were slightly expensive than the coach seats. The trip was fast and comfortable. I believe there ...
Colorful Colonia
Being so close in Uruguay we thought we should go and take a peek at Colonia. Cobbled streets with vintage cars and colourful buildings awaited us, so we had a good time wandering around the tree lined paths exploring. There isn't lots to do here ...
URUGUAY
As part as our Argentina trip in April 2006, we took a day trip to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay. We met a pair of friends while in Buenos Aires and since all of us had wanted to take the trek out Colonia, we decided to go together. We took a ...
peaceful small towns..love em!
... at the swell created by the boats props. You could almost surf that... you could defiantly wake board it. A purple haze sets in over the sea. Beautiful, Bonita, Lindo..I´m on a boat to Buenos Aires to study Espagnol, Hasta luego Uruguay (Until ...
En route pour l'Uruguay
... de sortie d'Argentine. L'employée de la douane m'avait indiqué de passer à un autre guichet pour remplir les formalités d'entrée en Uruguay, ce que je n'avais pas compris. Une chance que ceci ait été repéré avant le départ du bateau sinon je me ...
Why am I still drinking
... has been 14 days and this does not sit well with me. If I knew it wasn`t going to be here I could have stayed in Uruguay a bit longer. I notice a new girl is working there (Lucy) and she`s cute as all get out and cool to hang out with. ...
Passing through
... to the Galapagos and Machu Picchu (she will be adding her own updates to the blog when she gets a chance) and I am traveling through Uruguay and Paraguay until we meet again in La Paz on the 16th of April. Anyways, so the next few blog entries will ...
Colonia del Sacramento
... .01.2008 Wir stehen um 4.45 Uhr auf und sind um 5.30 Uhr am Hafen. Hier nehmen wir die 1 stuendige Faehre nach Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay. Wir kommen dort gegen 8.00 Uhr an und machen uns auf den Weg in die Altstadt. Wir finden ein nettes Café am ...
Uruguay in 48 hours!
... sat people watching with a bottle of vino blanco in the afternoon sunshine. The next day we headed east to a small town called Colonia del Sacramento which is a small town set up by the Portuguese to smuggle goods to Buenos Aires. This was a much ...
URUGUAY
URUGUAY 24 JAN - 31 JAN One hour boat ride and we were in Colonia, Uruguay. We had booked our accomodation in advance so with the help of a map we quickly found our hotel. We dumped the backpacks and got ourselves orientated. As we were planning to ...
Check the times!!!
If you ever go to this country, first make sure you know the local time so that if you do need to catch a ferry back, it doesn't leave 30 mins BEFORE you arrive! We did laugh eventually. Karma plays funny things very quick in this ...
day trip to add another stamp in the ol´ passport
... one more stamp in the ol´passport. We took the ferry boat over to visit for one day to the small colonial town of Colonia del Sacramento, a UNESCO World Heritage City. The slow ferry had a special for the day with a $25 roundtrip ticket. The day did ...
A country in a day
This is a top pick! ... ! Then we decided to follow the walking tour in Lonely Planet...which turned out to be a hilarious choice!! We had great fun.....Colonia is tiny....and the highlights arent that much.....but just for the fun of it we made sure we saw every house and ...
Cobbled Colonia
... 26th September - Friday 28th September Caught a 3 hour ferry from Buenos Aires to the colonial town of Colonia del Sacramento on the west coast of Uruguay. A huge cataraman and so quite a luxury journey for us! Arrived to hot sunny ...
The Daytrip to Uruguay
... in South America), it actually is in a different time zone from Argentina. Fortunately I did figure it out and did not arrive at ferry terminal one hour early... Pictures of Colonia, Uruguay: ...
Sleepy Uruguay
We got up crazy early to catch a ferry to Uruguay on Monday. Colonia is about an hour away by the fast ferry, so we spent the day there. It's a really sleepy town on the Rio de La Plata. It was founded by the Portuguese, and I liked all of the ...
Popping back to Colonia
... my 90-day tourist visa one last time a couple of days ago, so I went across the river on another day trip to Colonia, in Uruguay…this time with a friend who was getting over the same flu that I was recovering from. We figured we wouldn´t be ...
Historic Port Town of Colonial del Sacramento
We took the ferry, Buquebus, from Buenos Aires to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay. We took the slower ferry (3 hours) since we were not in a hurry. It was a very nice ride, not alot to see but a nice ferry and a nice warm and sunny ride. Colonia is a ...
Ceci est un titre / This is a title
... is a title: I really can't find anything funny to use as a title... ---------- Lors de mon premier passage en Uruguay j'avais évité la petite ville de Colonia del Sacramento, parce que j'avais vraiment besoin de calme, et qu'en été elle bourdonne de ...