When visiting the Gaucho Festival in Tacuarembo we stayed in Valle Eden, which is just west of the city itself. It was a pretty area. We rented a room, which seemed like the migrant sheep shearer’s quarters and was insanely over priced. Friends that went up with rented camping spots. They were dirt cheap and [...]
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Yearly, Gauchos (Uruguayan Cowboys) and not gather in Tacuarembo, Uruguay (northern Uruguay) for a huge Gaucho Festival. An entire “camp” is set up around a medium sized lake just outside the city. The camps (in the grounds) are traditional gaucho camps and homes, displaying and demonstrating traditional living. Among other events, there are a parade [...]
Yearly, thousands gather at the beaches in Uruguay (and Brazil) to give offerings to Yeamnja. The celebrants dug holes in the sand where they placed lit candles, floated various quality of boats into the sea, and made a number of other offerings. Walking the beach in the night can be hazardous during the festival as [...]
Colonia is a bit of tourist city. Other than tourism, there’s not a lot of reason to be there. It was founded originally to help protect and take over-flow traffic from Buenos Aires. It’s nearly directly across the river from BA. It is also the primary port for the ferry services that cross between Argentina [...]
Another part of the Prado is a large, outdoor rose garden. Once again, we were a little before prime time but there was no shortage of bloomed roses.
In the far northern part of Montevideo, about a 20 minute drive, is the Prado. Among the many things in the Prado area is the National Botanical Gardens. We were a little before the season for everything to be fully in bloom, but there were a variety of flowers still. There was also a Hawk [...]
I let myself get bogged down in processing Carnival pictures to the point where I hated even starting up Lightroom to do the processing. There’s some really nice shots there, but there’s over 21,000 shots total to sort through to pull out the best and then the time to process those. After a break from [...]
