Hotel Carlos Gardel Tacuarembo
General Flores 300 Tacuarembo, Uruguay
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Back to basics in the Uruguayan wilderness
The bus to Tacuarembó took about 5 hours. Again the countryside was so dull, still looking like Wiltshire, so there wasn't much to look at. Once we got to Tacuarembó we had to wait to be picked up by Juan, the owner of the Panagea ranch where we were staying for 3 nights. We had come across the ranch on Google – we knew we wanted to stay on a ranch somewhere and do some riding and this place cropped up. It really is very basic indeed – no electricity apart from ...
The steak is bigger in Uruguay than Argentina?
Today we took the Speed boat (1st class) :) to Colonial Del Sacramento in Uraguay. As it was an international trip we had to get there quite early to pass through customs. The day itself was very very quiet. We walked around the old colonial part of the city and took photos and then headed into the newer end of the city to do further site seeing. Sough American's eat all meals quite late, so ...
We have a techincal complication
Yeah!!! Another 2 flights, after a short stop in Uruguay we landed in Rio – our final destination on our little trip!! The stop over in Uruguay deserves a mention for the flight..... we were on the run way picking up speed ready to take off and then the plan ...
To the beach i say!
At long last we arrived at an honest to goodness beach. All the beaches on this trip so far have been accomnpanied by glacial lakes, not all that appealing for swimming. We got into town rather late so we just cruised town and walked the beach. We found a beaytiful lighthouse and went to go check it out. We talked to the navy guys inside and for a small fee we were allowed to climb up it. It was a big ...
Back to Fetch our Bags
We got back to Olga's La Cruz del Sur Hostel to a greeting of "your room awaits" :-)
Later, while we were doing stuff on the computer Olga arrived with two plates with apple pie she had baked and wanted to share with us. How extraordinarily nice of her!
We had a repeat of cooking, eating dinner, watching a movie, this time with Olga, going to bed too ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Central
