A CLEAN IDENTITYURUGUAY
SMALL TRIVIUMS FOR A GREAT WHOLE IRRISISTIBLE CHARM

Discovery

Small country wedged in the middle of two giants, Brazil and Argentina, Uruguay is not less one entity except for whole. If its economy and its history merge with those of the frontier countries, Uruguay can praise itself to have a capital, Montevideo, with a cultural and artistic offer important. Away from Montevideo, the travellers will be able to discover wild beaches, a natural environment and the famous interior grounds where the Gauchos live, these guards of cattle. There are no inevitably enormously sites of international scale or stunning ruins but rather of pretty corners natural to discover. In Uruguay, it is necessary to take its time and to benefit from small moments shared with the local population, very far from the fury of the other countries of the continent. It is necessary to come to lose themselves in the meanders of the rivers, to traverse wild extents with horse and to impregnate very cosmopolitan culture. A resolutely family destination where it makes good things in life.

Identity

All small country of the South of the Latin America, Uruguay suffers a little being wedged between its two large neighbors: Argentina and Brazil. Uruguay is visited indeed less and less known than these two countries. However, if one takes the trouble to come to see this country, one discovers a splendid territory combining of the paradisiac wild coasts and the interior plains full with charm. It is indeed inside the country that the visitor will be able to discover the true life of the Gauchos, these guards of cattle who furrow the wild extents on the back of horse. On your road, the estancias tighten you the arms to spend one night at the inhabitant and to meet the buildings. To spend a few days in these green plains will give the impression to you to be a real Gaucho, a cowboy of South American.

While moving away to the east and the west towards the coasts, you will leave to the meeting areas completely different from those from the center from the country. There, the sandy beaches heat and the villages at the picturesque historic centers follow one another, offering a real quality of life to the inhabitants but also to the visitors who remain there. To visit Uruguay, it is thus to leave to the meeting the wild meadows and the littoral to the balneal small stations, without forgetting a turn by the Montevideo capital, full with charm. It is a very sure, quiet and resolutely family destination.

Culture & Traditions

GAUCHOS

Cousin of the cowboy, the gaucho incarnates the pride, the courage and the love of the freedom of the Uruguyans. Raised with the row of myth this outstanding rider forms integral part of the Uruguyan folklore. 

FISHING

In Uruguay, the fishing season concentrates around three spots. Along Rio Plata, between Colonia and Piriàpolis as in Punta Del Este which is famous to be one of the best places to fish in the whole world. The in love ones with sport fishing will not be disappointed by the travel.

BEACHES

A stay in Uruguay is also the occasion to slacken at the edge of water on one of the beaches of the country. Uruguay has more than 600 kilometers of coast of which many islands. After having visited the Uruguyan grounds, a small balneal bracket is what it is done of better.

SPAS

Uruguay does not have less about ten spas! Between salt water, fresh water, bucolic, pastoral environment or palm trees, you have only to make your choice. Slacken in this water going of 34 with 42°. Discover in particular the termas del San Nicanor, del Guaviyu, del Almiron, of Salto Large, del Arapey and del Dayman.

Essential

Uruguay has a wet subtropical climate which makes the mild summers hot and winters. Precipitations are rather strong all the year. From January to May, the littoral has a rather mild maritime climate, because of the hot current coming from Brazil. From June to September, water is colder because of the cold current coming from the Falkland Islands. 

15°-20° WINTER / 30° SUMMER
PESO URUGUAYEN
-4 WINTER / -5 SUMMER
SPANISH
MONTEVIDEO
PARILLADA / ASADO

Form your trip

The stages

MONTEVIDEO

Posed on the surface of the water of the Atlantic Ocean, Montevideo is offered to you through its beautiful beaches, but not only. Ground of history and capital of Uruguay, this destination reveals you, with the liking of your walks, its architectural wonders and its vestiges of the past. Montevideo is the promise of a multiple stay, between relaxation and discovered. Measure all the beauty of the city by visiting its historic center, Ciudad Vieja, which concentrates classical buildings, Art Nouveau and of colonial style, of the masterpieces that it belongs to you to discover. Only the access to this part of the city offers a single show to you, through an impressive door: Puerta of Ciudadela. Discover then the city in an original way by making your shopping or while passing of good moments at the shopping centre of Punta Carretas which took its districts in an old prison. Include in your program one day in Rambla, a means of discovering the local lifestyle, its hospitality and its cordial environment. Constantly, you will be able to benefit from the joys of the sea on one of the many beaches which Montevideo account or you find around a table in a restaurant of Plaza Independencia. The in love ones with the culture will have the opportunity of doing the rounds of the many museums of the city which approach several topics: art history, contemporary art, carnival, football and much more.

PUNTA DEL ESTE

 

Bathed sun white sand beaches, a sea of a beautiful turquoise blue, sumptuous villas feet in water, of the luxury hotels which border the littoral and of the modern skyscrapers in background,… here landscape offered by Punta del Este since a few years. This small balneal pearl of Uruguay is ideal to concretize your dreamed of escape. Here, reality seems to grow blurred to leave room to a little place of paradise, now become the place of appointment of the VIP and international jetset. The time of your stay, you let go to idleness under the caresses of the sun, rocked by the lapping water on the beach of Mansa. If you prefer the strong feelings, go to the beach of Faced, very appreciated windsurfers and art lovers with his unusual sculpture: the hand of Punta del Este, representing five fingers emerging of sand, true emblem of the city. While turning his back on the Atlantic Ocean, you will discover another facet of this destination, cultural and authentic. Take the time to do the rounds of the museums, to stroll with the port to expect the show of the sunset there, to visit the zoo or the botanical garden Arboretum Lussich for a small exotic bracket.

CABO POLONIO

Small village of Bohemia nested in the middle of the dunes, Cabo Polonio is an unique place in its kind. Safe from the civilisation, Cabo Polonio is a difficult to reach nature reserve, whose charm knew to remain preserved mass tourism. Here, only the cries of the otaries and the murmur of the waves rock your ears in a perfect osmosis with nature.

PUNTA DEL DIABLO

Small village of fishermen deadened, Punta Del Diablo for a long time became a summer escapade of choice for the Uruguyans and the Argentinian ones. Its splendid littoral and its relaxed lifestyle melt one of the balneal destinations of it headlights of South America. Besides its beaches of dreamed, Punta Del Diablo proves to be a zone very interesting for the observation of the wild life, and there a good amount of travellers move there to go to observe the marine tortoises and the large variety of marine birds.

COLONIA DEL SACRAMENTO

Founded by the Portuguese in 1680, this city magnificiently preserved and classified with the Heritage of UNESCO, offers to its visitors a true travel in time. With its paved streets, its old colonial masonries and its cars of collection, Colonia is the oldest city of the country. An idyllic place where it is good to be let live, to lunch in the shade of a weeping willow by listening to an air of murga (Uruguyan traditional music).

CARMELO

Charming city on banks of Rio of Plata, Carmelo, is a true haven of peace plunged in the middle of nature. High place of the culture of the gauchosuruguayens, this small village is an ideal starting point to discover with horse the hinterland and its innumerable vineyards.

PIRIAPOLIS

Snuggled at the bottom of a bay, taken between sea and hills draped in the green veil of the vegetation, the seaside resort of Piriápolis enables you to enjoy good moments in a landscape of postcard. Program one strolls on the hill of San Antonio and profit from a magnificent panorama on the town suit to appreciate splendour of it. Prefer the end of the afternoon for this walk in order to assist since this point of view, with the splendid show of the sunset. Quiet and picturesque, this coastal town of Uruguay is favourable with the escape and constitutes an ideal destination for ressourcer. Take good time on the beach, you slacken, prick a head or let you go to idleness on a hot sand cushion, rocked by the mild melody the waves. Vary the pleasure and alternate joys of the sea and discovered. Visit the Castle of Piria, you offer a natural escapade to the reserve located at the edge of the city, enjoy the local culinary specialities in the restaurants of the marina,… Piriápolis has very to like. You will taste here with the charm of a small Uruguyan city with human size, destination of choice for a relaxed stay, dedicated to the release-catch.

DURAZNO

Durazno seems a destination impossible to circumvent for any stay in Uruguay. This provincial small town, built on left bank of the Yi river, does not miss a charm. Snuggled in the middle of an agricultural area, the landscape of Durazno is made fields, but also of forests, green hills, crossed by place by one of the three major roads. Serene and quiet, Durazno is favourable with expatriation and allows you to discover Uruguay in all its authenticity. Your days will be put rhythm into by the visit of the museums and of the monuments, by languorous walks along the river beach of El Sauzal and the escapades nature with Parks of Hispanidad, located with the edge of the city. If you travel with children, do not miss the zoo.  In Durazno, much do nothing but pass but this place deserves that one is delayed there, would not be this that for the calm and the serenity which it offers, ideal if you are in search of escape. At all events, if you want a little animation, you install with the counter of a bar on the side of the bus station. It will be also for you the occasion to plunge in the heart of this city by meeting its inhabitants.

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