5 Uruguayan beaches you need to know

Throughout its 180 km of coastline, the department of Rocha offers a handful of destinations with its own character and landscapes ideal for a holiday of pure relaxation

Barra de Valizas

It said to be the cool version of Cabo Polonio, because it is destination for photographers, intellectuals, artists, homeopaths and Europeans.
During the day, the beach forces. The basic kit is a good mate, books and a good dose of introspective ability. The most active choose to cross the creek Valizas boat and climb the hill of Buena Vista, from which point the "Cape" and Castillos Lagoon currency.
The good valizero manual states that everything is communal and routine, bad word, but basically points to a sharp opposition to any form of public lighting. Some houses with electricity there already, but many prefer to do without it.
Find accommodation is not easy, especially since the end of December. In the hostel opposite the square saturate backpackers, families choose to rent a house and the rest manages two or three places.
Is the B & B Lucky Valizas, frequented by young scientists looking to connect with his more sensitive side and an executive disguised as a bohemian more.
The other option is the Eirete Posada, the artist Maria Antonia Beloso

 

Punta del Diablo

 

 

The current ban on construction in the coastal strip, keeps intact the charm multicolor display of thatched huts on the beach access widow. There you can find Ernesto Laguardia, head of the restaurant The Old Man and the Sea
There are unmissable. One is sitting on the rocks to get orange see boats full of fish and shrimp. Another is the walk in the late afternoon by the craft fair, ending biting something hove, one of the few that preserves strictly culinary tradition, based on miniatures of fish and seaweed fritters.
As for the new, to crawl onto the beach of the Widow, the favorite of young people. In that area they are joining rationalist style houses and new inns, eg The Devil's Widow. It emerged as a beach bar and was taking the form of a solid complex of modern suites with Jacuzzi and decks overlooking the sea.
If you want to avoid the tumult, must cross over to Playa Grande (in the north), a large bay of white sand in the Santa Teresa National Park. For the park, should grab the car or take a bus. These are just a few minutes to discover its palm forests ending in amazing beaches like La Moza and Fort of Santa Teresa, the strength of the eighteenth century proud Uruguayans. At night, the move is concentrated near the beach Rivero.

Cabo Polonio

Without roads, electricity, telephone or running water, the only presence is the case with nature.
The lack of services requires exercise creativity in all its forms; some seek alternative forms of energy, others do honor to recycling or paint the walls corroded by salt plate. What it has not offset by cooperative ties, almost a social obligation that transcends affinities.
The poloniense community is a rich mix of tribes, old hippies, fishermen, environmentalists, self-exiled, musicians, artisans, alternative. Now yuppies, settled in front of the South Beach area they call "Beverly Hills", with houses more like those of La Barra Esteña that joined the Cape itself.
If you were to spend the day, you can start by North Beach and lunch in the restaurant of the lodge La Perla. Continuing along the coast to the peninsula is a classic climb the lighthouse and watch the three islands on which a large colony of sea lions spreads. At sunset sent South Beach, between guitarreadas and mates.
Search where sleep is part of the Cape experience. Some arrive with somewhat reserved and the rest, the majority, swarming everywhere in search of an unoccupied ranch.
Among the inns, all modest, that of Corvinos is distinguished by originality. The most bohemian camping around the inn La Canada, a tacit camping not officially approved.
And you have to spend the first night without light. It is a before and after, they say. Stars and moon replace the lighting, like the candles lit in each hut, and force more than imagine seeing.

The stone

While it is far from the lights and show off Stheno, I was able to react quickly and host a public demand for tourism Punta deserter. Then they began to proliferate designer shops, jazz and film festivals, and the Posada del Barco (ex Saint Michel) no longer be alone to compete with other accommodation category.
The gourmet category grew so much that there is talk of gastronomic center, taking into account the cuisine of flaming Dodger and John Fonda, combining Mediterranean tapas and beer waterfront, not forgetting the good table Lajau, the busy Romulo and Costa Brava, rated the best by the locals.
Wide beaches, there is something for everyone. Desplayado is more familiar, ideal for children by the bay formed by the rocks. The del Barco brings the youth movement and surfers in particular, because there are large waves. His projection is the resto-pub Fulano and wide deck just meters from the sea, where the wave continues until after midnight.
Those who prefer more secluded beaches to Punta Rubia away or ponds. The following scale to the east is San Antonio. His wild environment of native forest love David and Mary Tezanos Pinto, who one day left Barrio Norte to settle here with their daughters and so the Posada San Antonio emerged.
If the trend is wild and half hidden, Posada Buscavida meets both criteria. Located in Oceania del Polonio -a 24 km of La Pedrera, which comes only puts forward, because the only indication from Route 10 is a couple of posters there is to know decipher between the dunes.

José Ignacio

It is, in the neighboring department of Maldonado, the most exclusive beach around the eastern Uruguay and, as such, the exception to the rule in Rocha. There are art galleries, the parade of cute girls, ladies polo players and inoxidable.puertas Voucher, and the top events in the hostel's Footprint.
Of the handful of inns, a more splendid than the other, the precursor Posada del Faro, with white walls and pool overlooking the sea stands. The most ambitious project is the five-star Setai group that debate by is opening soon next to a complex of villas facing the sea.
Some historical were horrified by the boom experienced by the spa and decided to come ashore, the chef Francis Mallmann, a pioneer in José Ignacio that after more than two decades at the helm of blacks moved to Garzón, village of 200 inhabitants 60 km from Punta del Este, to add to its proven ability to gourmet vanguard enterprises a new bet: small luxury hotel Garzón.
In the list of the latest releases is the Anastasio house in the summer of 2009. Ten minutes of hilly dirt road separates the light of this beautiful farm of 270 hectares on the stream and pond Anastasio.
The novelty of this season will be played down by Chef Ono Japanese Takehiro star El Gourmet channel, after a remarkable performance in the port restoration mid 90s.