Blogs from Uruguay, South America
Leaving...Wanting More
Published: May 21st 2012South America » Uruguay » West » Colonia del Sacramento
May 20th 2012
The awesome impact of a plane landscape can be vastly underrated. People seek out mountains and valleys; majesty and splendour, but as the saying goes, sometimes you fail to see the forest for the trees. An early morning taxi and boat ride later and we found ourselves no longer in Buenos Aires but in Uruguay, an oft overlooked and predominantly rural country sandwiched between Brazil and Argentina. From the port in Colonia del Sacramento, we were careful to avoid any sight of the old town itself, preferring to leave that as a surprise for our eventual return to this little Portuguese settlement a few days later. Instead, we jumped aboard the first bus we could find headed for Montevideo, the capital city, where we would spend the following three nights. Our ride would only take just ... read more
R&R with the Devil....Punto Del Diablo
Published: April 25th 2012South America » Uruguay » East » Punta del Diablo
April 25th 2012
It had been over three months since we had felt sand between our toes and could cool off by dipping into the sea, and so we decided it was time to once again hit the beach. Now that we were in Uruguay, we knew that there were plenty of places we could go up the coast, and that the weather would still be fairly warm wherever we went, however the place that we really liked the sound of was Punta Del Diablo (Devils Point) We were drawn to this South American beach town for several reasons really; the promise of a laid back surfer town, no high-rise hotels, no ‘Mega clubs’ and a fantastic beach to boot. Plus, in case we needed persuading any more, our friends Troy and Kylie also happened to be visiting here ... read more
Wandering the quaint streets of Colonia, Uruguay
Published: April 25th 2012South America » Uruguay » West » Colonia del Sacramento
April 24th 2012
Once back in BA, we had a little over 2 weeks until our friend Louise from home was due to meet us, and therefore we decided to split this time into two parts. Week 1 would be spent in Uruguay and week 2 in Bariloche, back in Argentina. The fact that we could get to Uruguay in around an hour was draw enough for us, but the warmer weather in this part of the world when comparing it to Southern Argentina was the clincher, and so we headed north to a small town called Colonia. In order to get to Colonia, it seemed the best way was to make the short journey over the water in one of the frequent taxi ferries leaving from BA’s port. When we arrived at the ticket desk we asked which ... read more
Uruguay - Colonia del Sacramento
Published: April 11th 2012South America » Uruguay » West » Colonia del Sacramento
April 9th 2012
hola, hier ein paar Impressionen von unserem Tagestrip nach Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay... ... hier gehen die Uhren noch anders... ... Stress ist hier ein Fremdwort... ... sogar die Hunde schlafen... ... und wir auch... ... also seht selbst... Liebe Gruesse und gute Nacht Tanja und Lisa... read more
Sunsets, Camping & Tortas Fritas - Uruguay
Published: March 31st 2012South America » Uruguay » North » Termas del Daymán
March 24th 2012
First things first... quick update on the birds (feathered variety). Need to share before we forget! Monk Parakeet (noisy parrotty bird), Hummingbirds (the real deal - how small & beautiful), Chickeny bird (real name to follow), Lapwing impersonator bird (but with turkey legs!), little white bird (highlighter red hair), woodpeckery bird (but not one - kept singing "Wanderers") and eagly bird. As you can probably tell, we are no Bill Oddie! Part Uno - Colonia de Sacremento Pace of life compared to BA - S - L - O - W. Beautiful cobbled streets and old colonial buildings. People - much more us, chilled, friendly and the women were bigger than a size 6! We found out why - the local delicacy tortas fritas, our new favourite snack, it´s basically fried buttery salty bread and believe ... read more
March 21st 2012
Wow, I didn't realize how much I was loving the Patagonia area until I came back to the city. I have been in Buenos Aires for a couple of days and am really dragging my feet about doing anything, including writing a blog. Nothing seems interesting enough to share, so I haven't. But, I do want to keep you up on what is going on, so here we go. Today I had planned a trip to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay. It was listed as a nice day trip on a fast ferry to a quaint historic town. Sure, that sounded great. It was a nice trip on the ferry. It seemed odd to have to pass through customs and get a passport stamp for a 1 hour ferry ride, but it is to another country. I ... read more
March 8th 2012
I realise I haven´t written anything on La Boca, a district with El Caminito and all the colourful houses and what I suspect might be the birthplace of Mr Blobby. We visited this on the Sunday, passing the Boca football stadium as we went and... (look, let´s be honest, you´ve probably all read Will´s more detailed post on La Boca already. Like 4 days ago. I´ve completely missed the boat on this one and I apologize if you feel as if you´re being backtracked. I honestly won´t be insulted if you close your browser right now. Go on, do it! If you do want to carry on reading then thank you, I won´t let you down. Now where was I?)... yes, La Boca. It´s very colourful. Although if I´m being honest, although it was genuinely great ... read more
March 8th 2012
Tango is a carbonated soft drink sold primarily in the United Kingdom and Ireland and from 2010 in Sweden, Norway and Hungary as well, first launched by Corona in 1950. Corona were bought by the Beecham Group in 1958, and Beecham Soft Drinks were bought by Britvic in 1987.In Scandinavia the drink is distributed by SMX Drinks AB. So as you can see I´ve Wikipedia-ed Tango and I honestly had no idea that the show we saw in La Ventana Tango bar was a carbon... read more
March 8th 2012
I told Will not to open the big red door in the basement of the hostel. I said to him ´Jinkies Will it doesn´t look safe, it gives me the spooks´, there were ´no entry´ signs everywhere, but he had to have a look, and I felt I should accompany him. We went through the door, past some coats, through a random snowy land with an ice castle and a faun, and now we´re in Uruguay. Will´ll tell you we took the ferry after a change of plan so as to escape the hustleybustley BA for a relaxing minibreak in Colonia del Sacramento, but he´s lying. I´m glad we did go through that red door though. Colonia is really really nice, its an old historic port set up by the Portuguese with tree-lined cobbled roads and ... read more
March 8th 2012
After another hefty bus journey we reached Torres, another beach resort with big waves, but decided we´d skip its attractions and use it as a pit stop on our way inland to the mountains. After a night in the fairly-unhomely Resio Medusa, we got a bus to Praia Grande, which, despite meaning "big beach" can be found about 20km inland. Not only were we most definitely the only gringoes in town, but we were also the only ones who spoke English. After eventually working out that the bus didn´t leave until the following day and presuming that there would be nowhere to stay we headed to the tourist/taxi office to see how we could make it to the big draw of the area, Parque Nacional de Aparados da Serra. After a lot of writing down numbers, ... read more
