Why am I Perplexed by the Gaucho Festival?
The annual gaucho festival in Tacuarembó was interesting, but it brought up questions that left me in 2 minds about it. I am just a little perplexed.
The annual gaucho festival in Tacuarembó was interesting, but it brought up questions that left me in 2 minds about it. I am just a little perplexed.
The Fiesta de la Patria Gaucha is the most important Gaucho Festival in Uruguay. We attended 2016 and left with hundreds of photos capturing the atmosphere.
Travelling slowly and independently allowed us to experience what Concordia in Argentina has to offer. A relaxing visit with Rio Uruguay as the back drop.
Our first post, where we explained the African heritage of Montevideo’s carnival, was so long that we decided to add a second gallery of photos from “Las Llamadas”.
Carnival in Montevideo: lots of drumming, lots of vibrant colours, lots of dancing, lots of flag waving, lots of feathers and make-up, lots of bare skin, and a lot of fun!
An industrial slaughterhouse in Uruguay is now UNESCO World Heritage listed. It is the original home of brands like Oxo and Fray Bentos.
The opulence and macabre beauty of some of the incredible mausoleums make La Recoleta Cemetery a tourist attraction in Buenos Aires (b+w photo gallery).
The San Telmo market is on the must-do-list for most visitors to Buenos Aires – rightly so! If you like people watching and curious things you’ll love it.
It was not our first visit to Buenos Aires, but it was our best visit, full of sights and sounds of this popular South American city.
The beautiful nature in the Iberá Wetlands in Argentina really fascinated us. In addition to our post, telling you all about it, here’s a photo gallery.
The Iberá Wetlands is one of the most important reserves of freshwater on earth. It supports an enormous variety of animal, bird, aquatic and plant life.
After our recent visit to Las Marías, we now understand a lot more about the production, and the strong cultural tradition, of Yerba Maté in Argentina.
UNESCO World Heritage listed sites are always worth of a visit. The Jesuit Missions of the Guarani in Argentina and Brazil are no exception.
As we travel further inland in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, we discover more traces of European settlers and the wealth they created in this province.