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Colonia del Sacramento é o ponto de partida das balsas que fazem a travessia para Buenos Aires e onde se faz oficialmente a travessias entre os dois países. Mais um pouco de wikipédia: Alguns anos após o Descobrimento do Brasil, uma expedição comandada por Martim Afonso de Sousa chegou com suas caravelas até ao estuário do Rio da Prata, com a missão de colocar marcos de…
Capital do Uruguai, Montevideo possui cerca de 2 milhões de habitantes e foi em 2007 eleita a melhor qualidade de vida da América Latina, e está hoje entre as 30 cidades mais seguras do mundo.Quanto a qualidade de vida, não temos como medir, mas aparentemente as pessoas são muito felizes por aqui, mas quanto a segurança a sensação é plena…
No café da manhã, ainda em Chui, havia em cada uma das mesas um folder das atrações próximas a cidade, entre elas a Fortaleza de Santa Teresa.20 Km depois, pela rota 9, já no Uruguai, vimos a placa na estrada e resolvemos parar.Um forte muito grande e perfeitamente restaurado e conservado apontava na pequena montanha no final da estradinha. Por…
Saimos de Gramado com destino a Chui-RS, mas devido a distância, programamos uma parada em Pelotas-RS. Chegamos na cidade as 6 da tarde de sexta feira e tivemos que encarar o trânsito peculiar para o dia e horário, mas nada comparado a São Paulo. Rodando sem rumo atrás de um hotel, Dinira fez uma pesquisa rápida na internet e encontramos…
We are back in Montevideo after almost 5 months and 20 000kms. We are staying at the same hostel, Impecable, and I remember the last time I sat in the seat. We were waiting for the Land Rover to arrive and I was nervous, excited and slightly hung over. Since then we have toured Brazil, Uruguay and parts of Paraguay…
If you had read any of my previous posts you will know that I have a strange emotional connection to my truck. Maybe it’s a boy thing, or maybe I am a Mechanophiliac though I don’t have any of those feelings for my truck. Apparently it is a bad idea to travel by Land Rover. Some say it is a…
We are now very definitly under way in South America. We have enjoyed a week in Uruguay, and if the weather was a bit more pleasant we would have stayed longer. It is a very friendly country, and easy to find your way around, through the road signs do not always help! Road sign in Uruguay. But that’s…
After a few days of waiting in Honfleur in France, we finally boarded the Grande San Paulo on the 7th August, for the next part of our adventure and for us a new continent South America. At last, our ship arrives to Le Havre to bring us to South America We met our fellow passengers, and we all watched Europe…
We’re moving swiftly along…!! Covered almost 500 km today, but spent much of the time drinking coffee, and enjoying the scenery and the ride…!! Here are the photos that tell most of the story… Many more to come, but right now, I need some sleep…!! We have arrived in Pelotas, and tomorrow hope to reach [...]…
The ferry docked in Colonia at about 12.30 am, but Uruguay was an hour ahead of Argentina, so we lost another hour of daylight… I was told that Colonia is a beautiful town and well worth spending time in, but “time” was a commodity that I had precious little of… As I was leaving the [...]…
Our final night in Uruguay and I’m woken in the middle of the night by the heat and the need to scratch the numerous itchy bites covering my legs. I turn on light to see a large insect crawling up the wall, which I suspect of being a cockroach, probably attracted by the smell of food we cooked up the…
We spent a few spectacularly hot days camping in Parque Nacional El Palmar, a protected area housing the world’s oldest palm tree forest on the Argentine side of Rio Uruguay. One morning we woke up and decided to pop over to Uruguay for a spell. At what other point in our lives can we explore a new country on a…