Saying GOODBYE to URUGUAY - the best kept SECRET in the WORLD

[Music] it's been a little over four months we spent seven weeks inside [Music] in a great airbnb we survived on beer delivery and of course pasta the news was a bit dark but we made a plan and we hit the open road we fell in love with the sheer beauty of uruguay places like jose ignacio the areas outside of minas the farms near colonia del sacramento [Music] and punta vegena [Music] we stayed in many airbnbs [Music] and though at times we felt a bit homesick [Music] i made one post in the discover uruguay facebook group and travel writer karen higgs of goober gwy reached out and wanted to interview us about our story that turned into an article in the national newspaper which was then picked up and we were interviewed by cnn espanol through that group we also met jeremy and l a canadian couple that had written their motorcycles all the way down to the tip of argentina and got stuck in uruguay on their way back up we made many animal friends [Music] and as soon as restaurants reopen we were finally able to eat like the locals [Music] which includes a lot of meat [Music] [Music] it's such a laid-back environment and everybody is just so friendly with you oh i have a friend or oh my mom's house is here or we know someone with a brewery or come to everyone gives us recommendations and when you're far away from home especially in this type of situation it's such a great feeling it's truly a paradise in so many ways so but i think we'll look back and just remember the people the most i mean i think we went on this trip looking for a sense of a sense of community even though we have wonderful friends back home like just a different sense of community and it's funny that we found it in a pandemic in uruguay [Music] all right uruguay well hope you enjoyed the video we had an amazing time here in the little over four months that we've been here time really does fly when you're having fun and enjoying a beautiful country like this but yeah we're here we're packed up we're heading to the airport um we'll be doing a follow-up video about us traveling to our next destination where we're going to be hitting another country another country another continent another hemisphere that's all we're going to tell you for now yeah um but we are moving on but thank you for everything and muchos pesos ciao uruguay ciao

Channel: the great escape

Views: 29,534

Keywords: covid, covid19, uruguay, pandemictravel, montevideo, puntaballena, cnn, cnnespanol, elpais, joseignacio, airbnb, stuckinuruguay

Id: yZdFkUM6x48

Length: 4min 12sec (252 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 04 2020