So my farewell blog to Uruguay will not be as profound as the other ones as we spent much less time here but I thought it only fair to give a quick resume of my thoughts gathered about this country from our short trip. Before coming here I really didn't know what to...

Just a quick explanation as my captions aren't working properly- in the two photos below you can see the famous Butia palms that are native to Paraguay and are used for various purposes such as in salads, jam etc and also to make delicious alcohol as seen below 🙂

For our final few days in Uruguay we decided to go for a well deserved relaxing few days on the beach. The problem with this was that it was raining almost all the time and it didn't even seem hot enough to get into your bikini. We moved first to Punta del este,...

We were very lucky in Montevideo as we arrived on the 2nd February, the day when followers of the Templo de la hermandad celebrate the Goddess Iemanja. For me this was mainly fascinating from an Ethnographic perspective as I always say my favourite thing about Latin...

After our first rainy day in Colonia, we made our way to Montevideo to our amazing couch surfing host Rodrigo. Seeing as everything is super expensive here and safe, we decided to hitchhike from Colonia. Montevideo is only 2 and a half hours away so we didn't think it...

So we arrived in Buenos with 10 days to spare before my flight to Rio and decided to pop over to Uruguay to check out what this little interesting little country has to offer. Although small in comparison to its neighbours, in the last few years Uruguay has legalised...