FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF URUGUAY 🇺🇾 should you visit montevideo?
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In this Montevideo travel vlog I'm sharing my first impressions of the country of Uruguay. Traveling to Uruguay from Argentina meant taking a ferry from Buenos Aires to Colonia, and then a bus to the capital city of Montevideo. It was a long journey, but was it worth it? Watch the video and find out! Join me on a Montevideo walking tour to see some of the many things to do in Uruguay
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my wife and I sold up and moved to an empty beach in Rocha in August 2022 from the Monashee Mountains of BC. Our retirement was decades in the planning, after 15 years in New Zealand and 10 more in Canada. Uruguay was many many years of extended visits we learned early that there are 2 very different Counties, Montevideo and the rest of Uruguay we visit for legal documentation and immigration matters and then very much return to our coast our beach. Permanent residents now as I write, a quiet life blissfully unaware of the world's drama, living our best life in peace and quiet.
Since you are blissfully unaware of the world's drama - I would advise not Googling Trump, Ukraine or Gaza. Other than that enjoy your life in Montevideo.
Uruguay is where I'll be going for my honeymoon. Best wine, world class cuisine, and a beautiful culture.
Have a great time!!
@@ClaireHawkinsIn map of Uruguay yo visit, Lavalleja ( villa serrana),Canelones(Atlántida ),Piriapolis Punta del Este ,Colonia and Rocha.
Te esperamos ! Aún no has llegado ❤
Great job.
I hope you enjoyed Montevideo a lot. As an immigrant living in Uruguay for 2 years, I can tell you that it is a great economically stable country, despite being an expensive country, it is stable both economically and politically. Its architecture and History is very beautiful and interesting. ❤😊
I had a great time! It’s a lovely country.
@@ClaireHawkins 👍😍🤗
As an Aussie living in uruguay, I really respect the effort and thought that went into this video, it was aesthetic but also clear to follow with helpful information. Good job and buen viajes
I really appreciate that, thank you!!
Montevideo, this is the first time I have heard the name of this capital.The only thing I know about Uruguay is their national football team because their national football team is quite popular in my country.
Yes! Football is HUGE there!
No te enseñaron geografia en la escuela?
Where You from?
Hello my dear friend Hi @@ClaireHawkins
What planet are you from!
We can't start with Montevideo, generally the south is overflowing, often very dirty, many walls smeared. La Paloma was ok for 1 week outside the tourist time.
We have been living in the Tacuarembó for a few months now
/North Uruguay- here it is more relaxed, even here there are some dirty corners but rather rare.
6 months as a German immigrant and we feel at home in Uruguay, will buy a house in the new year.
Lugar en el que vivimos y seguimos viviendo
18 de Mayo- Departamento Canelones - 2 semanas
La Paloma - Departamento Rocha - 1 semana
Aiguá - Departamento Maldonado -2Mes
Balneario Iporá - Departamento Tacuarembó hasta hoy
Si sobreviviste vivir en 18 de Mayo ya está ,, estás apto para cualquier lugar
Uruguay 🇺🇾🇺🇾 is really one of most fascinating countries in South America coming from the Philippines.
It's really special!
Excellent, enjoy touring South America.
Thank you!!
You should go to the beaches of Rocha, or Maldonado. Hope you enjoy the trip 😊
Thank you for the recommendations!
Thank you for sharing this Uruguay is definitely a place I want to visit.
Thanks for watching! I hope you get to visit soon!
I really enjoyed this video!
You are really good at explaining so therefore I learnt a lot😊
Thank you!
My husband work there😊Great Montevideo! Hug from Croatia🤗
I also took a 10:30 a.m. Colonia Express ferry (about two weeks ago) but I stayed in Colonia. Very charming town. I just didn't have enough time for Montevideo.
I'm loving all the Buenos Aires videos! Thanks, Claire.
Colonia looks beautiful too! More Buenos Aires videos are coming! Thanks for watching 😊
Welcome to Uruguay!!
Thank you!!
Glad you liked “el paisito”
I left in 1981 to settle in Los Angeles
I would go back in a heartbeat if i could ….
wow so beautiful Montevideo !!! best from Oslo
Thanks for watching!
Yes, it’s a secular country!! 💪👍
Yes, Holly Week is mostly called “Tourism Week”.
I’ve never heard of “Family Day” to call Christmas, though.
We just call it Navidad, which is Christmas.
Lovely songs by Claire Hawkins.
Greetings from the country in Uruguay.
You are welcome.
Love your song Pass by towns, crazy harmonies, guitar and chelo. Beautiful ballad.
Thank you so much!
Montevideo looks like an extended version of San Telmo. Btw your videos are always amazing, Claire! 🤍🤍🤍🤍
Querrás decir la ciudad vieja de Montevideo, la verdad es mucho más linda que san telmo y más cuidada .
I liked the architecture. The steak looked delicious at La Pulperia and great to hear my new favorite song of yours ‘Choosing to Stay’ in the video. How long was the boat/ferry ride? I am enjoying this new series of vids.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you're enjoying "Choosing to Stay" and the South America travel series! I think the ferry was about an hour and a half, and then the bus was a couple hours as well. Worth it!
You should have gone to punta del este the best resort in South América, Rocha, and other cities there are more to visit…
I definitely have more exploring to do!
When it comes to unknown transportation > definitely better early than even just a tad late 😉
Any Shows on tap by chance on this Tour?
Thanks as always for bringing us along 🙏
TIENES QUE VISIITAR PUNTA DEL ESTE, EL BALNEARIO MAS LUJOSO Y EXCLUSIVO DE SUDAMERICA❗🤔
PUNTA DEL ESTE ES EL PARAISO ❗. SE ENCUENTRA EN EL DEPARTAMENTO DE MADONADO, URUGUAY. SE TRATA DE UNA CIUDAD - BALNEARIO. ❗
"ViSitar"
Tabare was the last Indian check the historic book I had a school. Im 70 years old. That’s is the truth. Proud of my country of birth,always will be.❤l live in Australia now , miss my country and the people.❤❤
Beautiful!
It’s a gorgeous country!
Welcome! And very nice song!
Thank you so much!
Superb cute looking. I am planning. To go uruguay
Mercado del Puerto, in the Old City, is the best place to Eat something and have a good time! Enjoy!
Thank you!
great video,greetings
Thank you!!
Hey,
Great details in vlog👌, may i know the device used for recording?
Thanks in advance!
Thank you! I film on a Canon m50.
Thanks for a nice video! It’s very subjective but after visiting Santiago and Buenos Aires I was quite disappointed with Montevideo.
We don't celebrate family day, we celebrate Christmas
I think our guide just meant that the official political calendar calls it Family Day, even though people celebrate it as Christmas. Is that right?
@@ClaireHawkins yes, the world doesn't believe in politicians anymore, they can name it as the want it but still being Christmas
@@ClaireHawkins officially is Family Day
Hello, thank you very much for the wonderful video. Would you please tell me how to stay connected with internet for the tourist?
Uruguay is often characterized as "laid back". I believe English grammar requires an intransitive verb to describe a state or condition. Perhaps "lain back" (since no one picked it up and laid it down.)
However expressed, I don't think that is virtue to people who have come to Uruguay to live and who need attention from civil servants to documentary matters, registrations, licensing and obtaining information or other help.
The word "culture" is used almost indiscriminanty to refer to satsfying one's hungers and thirsts. Less often is it used to describe a level of development, excellence or achievement in a scholarly or artistic way. An enthuiasm, as for soccer or tango, is also "culture". In my country, the USA, a foreign accent is often equated with "culture".
Enjoy uruguay the best city is punta del este whit beaches to the atlantic ocean dont miss
Thank you! I’ll have to come back!
thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for Go to My Country Uruguay 🇺🇾 and my Capital Montevideo … My DAN 💙🇺🇾 … to Day I living in Nj … ( 30 year’s haha )
Thank you for watching!!
Have a nice day Mademoiselle.
Thank you!
Christmas is Christmas !!!!!
te gustó munchivireo
estoy enamorado de tu sonrisa eterna🥰
I’m looking for a new country I think I like Uraguay
You are welcome here!
That story about the natives being practically exterminated and some running away... it is a huge lie spreaded during the left wing government. Many did die but things didn't happen the way they say it happened. It was more of a war than a massacre, and a war which was started by a few natives. Most of the natives then, fought with the government against those chiefs that became rebels and attacked first. I heard a historian, expert in the subject, explain in great detail how things really happened. Supporting his statements he cited documents that can be found in the main Library of Montevideo, and if someone wants to go deeper in their investigation, he also cited documents that are in Spain. He even invited people to investigate by themselves. My conclusion is that all fantasy about history started around 2005, when the left wing became the new government. They spreaded the lie, because it is part of their program of victimism and making people angry with one another, poor against rich, native against white, women against men, heterosexuals against homosexuals, and so on... But don't worry I repeated their lie myself many times too... I should know better... 😇😇😇because I had never heard such a thing during my school years.. well... they supported their own lie saying that it all had been a conspiracy of the government and all the teachers through 150 years because nobody was morally good enough (like them) to investigate and talk about the supposedly " Salsipuedes massacre"... 🙄🙄🙄
Seriously, the Frente Amplio leaders are pretty crappy people... and in Montevideo they control thee City Hall, that is why they keep lying... they also said that there were natives still living in the country, another huge lie... curiously, in my then more than 40 years I had never heard about any one... until of a sudden a family moved from Brazil claiming land saying they were natives from the area... The funny thing is that they didn't speak one single native word (just Portuguese) and they had a super modern car, something like a Ford Explorer... and they were living in a modern tent...besides they didn't send their kids to school, which was annoying, because in Uruguay school is mandatory... just to claim their "native status" (by the way... they would wear normal clothes too).
To make the "Salsipuedes lie" more believable, s few Uruguayan also followed their steps and started to dress up as natives, showing up on TV programs and making CZcams videos dressed up, supposedly as Charruas, making noises with some type of a horn they found somewhere, saying those were their instruments (btw they sounded horrible). One of them would even wear a jacket that looked more like an American Indian chacket, than anything else... 🤣🤣🤣 That type that used to appear in series like Bonanza! Telling victimism stories, such as their families have been hiding their ancestry not to be victims of racism... (they looked pretty white to me) and blah blah blah...
To make a long story short, all those "so called" natives, disappeared without notice, even from CZcams, since the new administration took place, which is a center-right wing... (not an extreme right) curious.. ahhh... I wonder if they went back to their caves to hide... 🤭🤭🤭 Sorry for my bad jokes...
To be totally honest with you, some of us, do have some native DNA. In my case it is not more than 15% according to the 23 and Me test I took living here in the USA, and runs only on my mother's side (also according to them), which is pretty low to be Uruguay such a young country, but on the other hand, it also makes sense. Because la Banda Oriental, used to be a huge land, that became reduced to what it is today Uruguay, after losing a lot of land in the hands of Brazil and Argentina. So the native population it also got reduced to a minimum in a much smaller territory. Because of that emptiness in the countryside, European immigrants started to populate it. That is the logic explanation why there isn't such a high percentage of native DNA in us. And in my family, no one ever imagined we had native DNA... everybody were surprised when I shared my results with them... Sorry for my long message but I had to take it out of my chest. I am tired of all this BS!
@@user-eo1we6qd2s I am not sure if most... there are hundreds of families that populated the country after the first and second world war... adding to that, not all families with Uruguayan ties from the 1800´s mixed. I can assure you this, because my 15% is from my mother´s side only. While I have 0 native from my dad´s side. And his first ancestor who moved to the country, was an Italian man who married a Portuguese lady in Uruguay in 1851, and even though generations passed and mixed there, none of them had native blood, until we were born, more than 100 years after the first migration!
Thank you! Leftist lies generally follow that same line everywhere. I am curious about Uruguay as I seek an escape from the crumbling empire of the USA. I prefer medium sized cities, law and order, natural beauty. I am dual citizen, USA and Euro. Can I buy property in Uruguay and is the cost of living reasonable?
@@dagsterblaster4973it is difficult . It depends on the city, but if you want to retain the same level of comfort you find in North America or Europe, the best place is Punta del este, Maldonado (atlantic coastline). Montevideo is the capital, and in spite of having some nice neighborhoods, it is much neglected nowadays. Prices are high, like in Europe.
Es un lindo pueblo Montevideo😊
¡Si!
Precioso! Pero no tiene lo que tiene Buenos Aires: villas miseria, corrupción, inflación, piquetes, violencia, pobreza del 50%, moneda valor cero... ese sí que mas que un pueblo es una enorme aldea africana
@@Raluz57 eso es por qué no tiene gente, hace 3 décadas son 3 millones, al parecer muchos jovenes uruguayos deciden irse de la Suiza de Latinoamérica al no ver un futuro ahí , además solo 3 millones hay en CABA ,17 en Buenos Aires que es más grande que todo Uruguay.
@@maximogabrielgag9061 Y? Qué tiene qué ver la cantidad de población? China tiene 1.500.000.000 y Argentina 47.000.000 ... hay 32 chinos por cada argentino y no hay nada de lo que sufren ustedes... que además de todo sólo dan lástima y entran a envidiar y mostrar su resentimiento y complejo de inferioridad.
@@Raluz57 a no tiene nada que ver? Por algo los suizos cruzan a Argentina a comprar su comida sino se les termina el sueño de que son suizos😁
We have been there a while ago to take a visa run. Took the ferry from Buenos Aires, then the bus to Montevideo. We not really enjoyed the city too much. A lot of shady people (even in the day time) and prizes are extremely high. Compared to Buenos Aires, nothing really worth seing there. You have everything and more in Buenos Aires including great prizes. I would not recommend visiting and instead go to Santiago de Chile instead.
Gracias, no vuelvas
This is my dream country