At this teal-green shack 50m from the 4WD truck stop, Señora Neli cooks up delicious empanadas (UR$45) filled with siri (crab) and pescado (fish), along with chivitos (steak sandwiches), milanesas (breaded cutlets), fries and other reasonably priced Uruguayan snacks.
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4.85 MILES
On Laguna de Castillos' western shore (near Km 267 on Ruta 10), brothers Marcos and Juan Carlos Olivera, whose family received this land from the…
0.22 MILES
Built in 1881, Cabo Polonio’s striking 27m-tall lighthouse provides a fabulous perspective on the point, the sea-lion colony and the surrounding dunes and…
28.05 MILES
The 1874 completion of this local lighthouse marked La Paloma’s genesis as a summer beach resort. The unfinished first attempt collapsed in a violent…
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0.22 MILES
Built in 1881, Cabo Polonio’s striking 27m-tall lighthouse provides a fabulous perspective on the point, the sea-lion colony and the surrounding dunes and…
4.85 MILES
On Laguna de Castillos' western shore (near Km 267 on Ruta 10), brothers Marcos and Juan Carlos Olivera, whose family received this land from the…
3. El Faro del Cabo Santa María
28.05 MILES
The 1874 completion of this local lighthouse marked La Paloma’s genesis as a summer beach resort. The unfinished first attempt collapsed in a violent…