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Riding with the Gauchos of Uruguay
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 8 February 2012
It’s just before dawn, and I’m rudely awakened by my alarm clock. It’s that freakishly early stage of the morning that normally passes me by, but today I have to haul ass into the paddock for my first ever horseback ride in Latin America. Those looking for the gaucho experience have plenty of estancias to [...]
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Montevideo Carnaval
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 1 February 2012
Carnaval time is just around the corner, and although our budget and timescale doesn’t allow for a jaunt to Brazil, we have another idea. While planning our route from our hostel in Montevideo to the festival in Gualeguaychú in Argentina, we hear about the city’s own event. A fellow traveller tells us that not only [...]
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The Best of South America Part 1: Travellers Share Their Tips
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 24 January 2012
This week we launched our free ebook South America Highlights where we share 28 of our favourite places from our year on the continent. We thought it’d be interesting to find out how our highlights compared to other travellers, so we asked a number of travel bloggers to share their best experiences and destinations in [...]
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Finding the Real Uruguay (Two of Uruguay’s best kept secrets)
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 3 October 2011
I became known as the ‘funny man’ while I was in Uruguay. It was a name that I hadn’t been called since the weekly poker nights I had become a part of in Ecuador. My drunken attempts at trying to bluff every single hand, and yet somehow winning, had been the reason for the moniker [...]
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The Curiosities of Uruguayan Life
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 2 October 2011
On entering any country there are always a few things that just seem to spring out at you. Why are they doing that? How much does it cost? Are you being serious? In Uruguay these things may seem less severe than in other countries, such as Bolivia and Brazil in South America or further away [...]
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Can You Score A Country on Ethics? The Top Ten Ethical Destinations For Travellers
Blog: Inside the Travel Lab - 25 January 2011
When it comes to "Top Ten" lists, I find them fun but I never take them seriously. So when an email landed in my ludicrously overpopulated inbox with the subject "The Top Ten Ethical Destinations," my cynical old heart sank a little. Why?
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Second Edition of UruguayNow, travel guide to Uruguay, arrives
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 30 December 2010
On 24th December 2010 the Second Edition of UruguayNow (the first English language travel guide to Uruguay) was launched. If I hadn’t been stuffing hundreds of mince pies into my face at the time I would have mentioned this earlier. Well, the mince pie hangover has died off and so I bring the news! The [...]
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Uruguay’s African Roots
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 11 November 2010
One of the fascinating aspects of Uruguayan culture is the fact that through colonisation it managed to keep intact customs passed on from the slaves. Candombe is a style of drumming, which also incorporates dance and costumes, that was brought over by African slaves in the early 19th century. It has strong links with drumming [...]
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An Idyllic Blip On The Map
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 19 October 2010
I first read about Cabo Polonio in a travel article which sparked my interest. It is a tiny blip in the bottom right-hand corner of Uruguay. If you look on Google Maps you will have to zoom in quite a few clicks before it appears. This meant that getting there was a bit of a [...]
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Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay – Crumbling Quaintness
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 17 October 2010
After the bright lights of Buenos Aires, Colonia del Sacramento is a small but perfectly formed contrast. We got the morning ferry across the Rio Plata. For budget reasons we opted for the three-hour crossing which gave us time to sit and relax. One main warning for Colonia is that if you are using the [...]
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Argentina and Uruguay to host 2030 World Cup?
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 9 October 2010
Very exciting news that Argentina and Uruguay have put forward tentative plans to host the 2030 World Cup. Their main hope with the bid is that the organisers won’t be able to resist the temptation of hosting the tournament on its centennial year at the place where it all began. That final of that first [...]
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I can see clearly now… Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 4 October 2010
You know how sometimes after a heavy rain the whole world looks new? New grass, freshly tarmaced roads, straight-from-the-box cars? Well Colonia del Sacramento is not like that. Even after the heaviest spring fall Colonia is old old old. What is new is the tranquility. Once the old town has been washed clean of the [...]
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Uruguay to concentrate on hemp production
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 11 September 2010
When I was last in Montevideo (in January and February 2010) I met quite a few Americans who had come to Uruguay in order to make some dollar. Their main objective was real estate, buying cheap land near the cost and building some fancy dan apartments there. For Americans of retirement age it couldn’t really [...]
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Sounds and Colours – a magazine about South American music and culture
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 24 July 2010
Sounds and Colours, as mentioned in a previous post, is a website I have been working on for the last couple of months. It seems like now is the time to get the word out on this thing! The site features interviews, mixtapes, news and reviews of all aspects of South American music and culture. [...]
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11 South America Backpacking with Indie Travel Podcast – podcast
Blog: Heather on her travels - 24 July 2010
In Podcast 11 I talk to Craig and Linda from Indie Travel Podcast about their 4 months travelling with friends in South America, visiting Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Uruguay. They pick out the highlights of their trip, and give some advice on travelling by bus, how to avoid scams and pickpockets and how they [...]
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How to take a taxi in South America
Blog: The Indie Travel Podcast - 30 June 2010
Taxi culture varies from country to country - learn how to catch a taxi in the South American countries of Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Uruguay.How to take a taxi in South America is happily produced by The Indie Travel Podcast, proud winners of Lonely Planet's "Best Podcast" -- Check out our free podcast in iTunes, free online travel magazine, or the
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Day 139: End of the Road - Latin America
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 30 June 2010
Rio de Janeiro seen from Corcovado - the world's most jaw droppingly gorgeous city This is it. Our journey in Latin America has come to an epic end. Who would have thought we’d travel through Central and South America by land, with only a hopping flight between the two. We’ve clocked 450 hours of bus and boat time, covered 28,000 kilometers of gravel, dirt and asphalt (3 times the flying
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The Mexican Autopsy
Blog: The Mexile - 22 June 2010
Was it just me, or did it seem, right from the announcement of the team, that Aguirre had this match as a ‘not important’ sort of a game. A friendly. A kick around. Blanco starting? Please! I’ve defended him plenty, but as a player whose role is as an impact substitute. Not a starter. Franco [...]
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Day 130: Uruguay on a run
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 20 June 2010
Parillas of Mercado del Puerto in the capital of Uruguay With a couple days to spare, we decided to add a few more passport stamps to our collection and pay Uruguay a whirlwind visit - a day in Colonia del Sacramento and a day in the capital Montevideo. Colonia was well beyond my expectations; perhaps it was my lack of expectations that made this town a pleasant surprise. A small coastal
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Wonders of the World Cup Nations: Group A – South Africa, France, Uruguay and Mexico
Blog: 501 Places - 24 May 2010
Like millions of others I’m counting down the days till the start of the football World Cup in South Africa on June 11th. Once the final 32 qualifying countries were decided, I was looking at the list and thinking of which ones I had visited, which ones where on my immediate to-do list, and which [...]Wonders of the World Cup Nations: Group A – South Africa, France, Uruguay and Mexico is a post from: 501 Places
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Top 10 signs you can’t afford a restaurant in South America: The backpacker edition
Blog: DO EPIC SHIT - 10 March 2010
This post is dedicated to Emily McInnes-Greenberg and Dave White. Every travel budget works like this: at first you spend like a fool, thinking that that extra beer could not possibly put a dent in the almighty pot. Then as your money dwindles like an hourglass and you begin to see the last few [...]
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Why are Uruguayans born with a bent left arm?
Blog: Travel log and tips for budget travel by backpacking, RV (motorhome) and cruising - 6 March 2010
Trivia - Q. Which African country has exactly the same name as its capital city?
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Bye Guay
Blog: Seth of the Equator - 3 March 2010
"I've never heard of anyone going to Uruguay. That's a pretty aggressive move." That's what my buddy Sam said to me back in Costa Rica, about a week before I headed south to Montevideo. I definitely felt the same, except that for me it was a bit more of a concern, because I was the one who would be heading off into the unknown. I could not have hoped for a better experience. Having finished my three week stay, I can unequivocally say that I am smitten.
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Uruguay, I'm a guay cinco - Todavía más notas
Blog: Seth of the Equator - 1 March 2010
I've been running around the last few days trying to get in my last fill of fun before I leave for Buenos Aires tomorrow, so I don't have much to report outside of "I did this cool thing and then I did this cool thing." But in the interest of keeping this up to date, I thought I'd check in with a little summary of said cool things.
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Spot the rich and famous in Punta del Este, URUGUAY
Blog: Travel log and tips for budget travel by backpacking, RV (motorhome) and cruising - 26 February 2010
Trivia - Q. How many countries are still members of the British Commonwealth?
