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- Montevideo
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- Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
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- 3,360,105
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Uruguay
Travel Blogs from Uruguay, Uruguay
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 ...
Week 3
... came to our rescue; she is Italian, living in London, and working on a Ph. D. comparing human rights between Argentina and Uruguay - a 3-year project! She was in between interviews and a visit to a Museum of Memories. The owner sent over a small ...
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 ...
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 ...
Week 2
... of our boat scheduled for 9:45. I got into a terrible mess because I left the document that proved that I entered Uruguay legally at the apartment; the fact that my passport was properly stamped wasn´t enough. We received our boat boarding ...
El viejo y el mar.
... the word of a fellow traveller and an insignificant sentence in our travel guide, Natalie and I decided to go to Punta del Diablo, Uruguay. The trip there took a total of 19 hours with a stop in Montevideo. The capital city is old and crumbly. Many of ...
Couchsurfing near Carmelo
If you haven't heard of couchsurfing then check out the link below: http://www.couchsurfing.org/ I was a bit hesitant about couchsurfing but needn't have been at all. I contacted David last week to see if I could stay with him for a couple of nights on ...
Livin' it up with Uruguay's rich & famous
So, back on another bus, we headed east to the upmarket resort city of Punta del Este - a comparatively short 2 hour ride. We had left our big bags at Montevideo, so we could walk around easier (plus save Bens back from more damage) and find somewhere ...
Uraguay
Today i am in Colonia, Uraguay although it was with luck and speed that i made my ferry due to last nights improntu leaving drinks at the hostel which culminated, in typical Buenos Aires style, in arriving at a club in Palermo at 3am and dancing away the ...
