Uruguay was just a little stop for us, but definitely worth a visit. Here’s what we think will help if you are planning a trip there: Safety: Uruguay felt quite safe. Only when we were in Montevideo and to the West of the Plaza Independencia in the Old Town after 5 PM on weekdays would…
Colonia del Sacramento is the town in Uruguay that faces Buenos Aires across the Rio de la Plata. In many of our travels, the ‘small towns’ right near borders we were crossing tended to lean on the kinda scuzzy, dirty, ‘I don’t want to stay here’ kind of places (I’m looking at you Loja, Piura…
We are into our eighth country of our journey and it has been an interesting nugget. Uruguay…I really had no idea about you. All I knew was that you could see Uruguay from Buenos Aires, so why not visit before we made it to Argentina’s capital, right? But did you know said river, Rio de…