Country Info
- Montevideo
- Capital
- Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
- Currency
- 3,360,105
- Population
- UY
- Country Code
Uruguay Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Uruguay
Crossing the Río de la Plata
... of Colonia's Barrio Histórico. Some strategically parked classic cars make the picture complete. I've totalled a mere three days in Uruguay which doesn't do much justice to this charming and inviting country. Uruguay has been a very pleasant surprise. ...
Colonia del Sacramento Uruguay
Tuesday March 22, 2005 Buenos Aires, Argentina to Colonia, Uruguay We boarded the ferry for Colonia Uruguay at 9a.m and arrived 3 hours later plus a one hour time difference. The Hotel Beltran was a few minutes from the port. It was quite a challenge to ...
Carne y Carnaval in Uruguay
... not local. It is not until it no longer happens that we realise how wearying it has been to be constantly regarded as 'strange'. Uruguay is a largely very flat country and the roads are good. As usual most people on the bus fall asleep except for me ...
A beautiful step back in time
... , with dinner over champers on the first night went down a treat! We really got amongst the no-stress laid back lifestyle that Uruguay is known for, and really just laxed and explored every inch of Colonia over the time we were here! We ate well like ...
The One in Punta del Este
... they were closed (of course). Thursday night, of course, was thanksgiving dinner!! But, imagine trying to find one of those in Uruguay. We went to the Uruguayan Yacht Club and at ethings like gnocchi, pasta, fish, and steak. Extremely delicious, but not ...
Reunion
... Tampa Bay in the morning. The only thing I know he's some kind of an engineer, he's unemployed and wanting to live in Uruguay but more importantly he brought over 100 grams of grass on an airplane from Miami to Montevideo!!!!. He didn't know if they had ...
Checking out the "Hamptons of Buenos Aires"
Punte del Este does not boast the most beautiful beaches I have ever seen, but it is glamorous town and worth a visit. I just wish I had more time here! It was a bit of a hassle to get to Punte del Este from BA, and I only spent one afternoon ...
the small capital
i have had 4 days here in the capital of uruguay. 2 days of incessant rain and 2 days of glorious sunshine. i have spent the last 2 nights with servas and anita has been an amazing host - giving me a city tour, taking me to markets, and even a modern ...
Montevideo, achoo
Montevideo, Uruguay. Goodbye, Brasil. Goodbye, Portuguese. The Red Hostel is a very good place with cool, energetic staff - except when its rooms or water are cold, or when the dim lights prevent you from reading at night. Here we watch ...
Beach, lake and wetlands
Driving east from Montevideo we head for the white sands of eastern Uruguay. The Brazilian and Argentines come here for their holidays. This is the costas of Uruguay. We stop for lunch on a headland and can see Pinta del Este in the distance we could be ...
We're tourists who do touristy things
... 10:30). We got ready and then took a cab to the Buquebus station across town. We were trying to make the 12:30 boat to Colonial Uruguay but we got there at 12:27 and so they told us we would have to take the 2 p.m. ship. After a little consideration, we ...
Salto
Capital of Uruguay
Montevideo (pronounced Monte-vid-ayo) It was only a 6 hour bus ride to get here so we caught it in the day time and the bus had wi-fi on it, so that was pretty handy! As we were coming in my first thoughts were, just another big city, museums, shopping ...
mate', meat and peñarol
It's a clear sign of my growing maturity that the 2 things I've thought most about since entering Uruguay have been football and 'The Simpsons'. I guess the football is understandable, and I will explain it further later, but why 'The Simpsons'? Not The ...
Uruguay
Got the Buquebus boat from Buenos Aires to Colonia in Uruguay. Colonia is a lovely cute old style town with loads of cobblestone streets and old style street lights, but the water is a murky brown and not very inviting for a ...
I miss it already
Ended up staying longer than I thought in Presidente, but it was fun there. Arrived in Foz do Iguaçu eventually and took off for the waterfalls. It was sort of a strange feeling being out in this part of the country after living the ...
Colonia
Colonia was the town we had to catch the ferry from back to BA. We spent a sunny afternoon wandering around the cobblestone streets admiring the old houses, sitting outside have a lazy late lunch and climbing to the top of the lighthouse to get some ...
What a birthday!
... ; Today is my birthday, and we are happily ensconced in a luxury apartment overlooking the yacht basin in Punta del Este, Uruguay. Punta, as it's called here, is the most exclusive resort in South America, and a favorite of international ...
sleepy little beach town
we had got up early in Montevideo to catch the first bus to Punta del Diablo but there was only 1 seat left when we got there so we improvised and took a bus to La Paloma. We had read it was a surf spot with a beautiful coast line. The reality of off ...
Devils and Widows...
... excited to see the bull ring, which opened in 1910 with a capacity of 10,000 people. Unfortunately for the owners Uruguay outlawed bull fighting 2 years later and the building was abandoned. We arrived to find the building fenced off and inaccessible to ...
Mar 23, 2011
Dagstur til Uruguay
I dag onsdag 14.10 har vi várt pa en dagstur til Uruguay. Det gikk en baat fra Buenos Aires som vi tok. Baten tok ca 1 time og vi havnet opp i en gammel forblaast by Colonia Del Sacramento. Denne byen er pa Unescos verdensarvliste.. Her var det absolutt ...
Colonia and the Cold
We awoke shivering at the crack of dawn and made it to the Buquebus terminal for our catamaran trip to Uruguay across the river (actually a bay) Rio de la Plata. Although the ferry ads claimed it was the fastest ferry in the world, the speed was ...
Uruguay!
... da ormai 3 mesi i ponti sono bloccati da manifestastazioni argentine che protestano contro una fabbrica di cellulosa che l'Uruguay vuole costruire. A parte questo dettaglio argentini e uruguayani si considerano fratelli e vanno d'amore e d'accordo. ...
Our own shack
... and remained like that till we woke up! Punta Del Diablo is a very small fishing village not far from the Brazil-Uruguay border, it is a very rustic and simple place, nevertheless when we arrived (around Xmas time) it was jampacked with tourists, ...
Time for some fun in the sun!
... year and a half and only once on this side of the road. I was a little scared myself. Driving along the dirt roads of Uruguay I was starting to feel pretty comfortable and Marty looked much less tense. We were talking away and before I knew it I had come ...
Ruta al Est
Hola! Lasciata Buenos Aires con tutti i compagni di viaggio finalmente sono rimasto solo, finalmente si fa per dire perche' in realta' essere soli a viaggiare si e' dimostrato piu' malinconico del previsto, soprattutto il primo giorno! Comunque ho ...