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Sobre Maldonado - About Maldonado (esp-eng)

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Maldonado is a departament of Uruguay, the one I live now (not the one where I was born). I want to tell about it, the same way I did with the post of Uruguay.

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De los 19 departamentos del Uruguay, Maldonado es uno de los que tiene costas en parte sobre el Río de la plata y en parte sobre el océano Atlántico. Posee un paisaje serrano, con interesantes cadenas de elevaciones que lo cruzan de norte a sur. Se destaca el cerro Catedral. Muchas de estas elevaciones marcan el paisaje de balnearios del departamento.
Pero no todo es serranía en el departamento. Hay un gran abanico de opciones para turistas de todos los gustos. Sus playas son de las que más gente atrae todos los veranos. Paseos al aire libre y gran cantidad de espectáculos se realizan en sus principales ciudades, como Punta del Este (referente en América latina) y Piriápolis. Todo esto, junto al marco histórico del lugar, punto estratégico en viejas luchas, la amabilidad de la gente que lo habita, y los paisajes interminables, conforman un departamento lleno de atractivos para visitar en el Uruguay.

About Maldonado (eng)
Of the 19 departments of Uruguay, Maldonado is one of those that has costs partly on the River Plate and partly on the Atlantic ocean. It possesses a "mountain" landscape, with interesting chains of elevations that cross it from north to south (There are not really mountains in Uruguay, just elevations that never raise more than 550mts). One of the more important is the Cathedral hill. Many of these elevations mark the landscape of important cities of the department.
But not everything is elevations in the department. There is a great list of options for all kind of tourists. Beaches are of those that more people attract every summer. Tours outdoors and great quantity of shows are carried out in its main cities, as Punta del Este (a reference in Latin America) and Piriápolis. All this, plus to the historical frame of the place, strategic point in old fights, people's kindness that inhabits it, and the endless landscapes, conform a department fulled with attractiveness to visit in Uruguay.


Great weekend in Punta del Este [photos]

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Last weekend was with 3 free days. Yesterday was the Independence Day. So we had extra free time. On sunday we organized a climbing to Pan de Azúcar, the highest hill of Piriápolis, with 500mts. But the day started raining, and it could be too dangerous to climb the rocks. But Monday was OK and some friend invited us to go to Punta del Este. That city is 40kmt. from Piriápolis, where we live. Is an important city for tourism, and is visited from many tourist of South-America in summertime. Our city is prefered to "relax vacations", and comes people from many sites of America, too. (It's nice to make friends from around the world in summertime).

We took the long way, all along the shore. That made us contemplate nature. And we found whales! They came in this part of the year to reproduce and give birth. Amazing animals!

In Punta del Este we went to the mall, my wife's delirium :lol: and a flash-visit to Conrad Hotel to visit some areas. No time for Casino, no enough money in our pockets :lol:

Finally, we returned home and I cooked some fried cakes, to eat with fruit tea.

We forgot the rain of sunday, and enjoyed a lot this monday.

You can see the pics in this link:
http://my.opera.com/pbuydid/albums/show.dml?id=591979
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