A country at cycling pace.

Pedaleando Uruguay

Uruguay, lived by bike.

Uruguay is small enough to cross by bike in a few days, and slow enough to be worth it. This is the English edition of Pedaleando Uruguay — a guide for anyone thinking of riding here, and a way of reading the country at the pace of a bicycle. Start with how to arrive; stay for where the riding takes you.

Illustration: a touring cyclist resting beside his bike, reading a phrasebook, gold and blue Uruguayan coastal landscape behind him. 1920s poster style.
Plan your trip · New

Do you need to speak Spanish to cycle Uruguay?

The honest answer — plus the cyclist's moments where it really matters, and a phrasebook to carry. Read the guide →
Illustration: two cyclists on a coastal road above big Atlantic waves, a surfer riding a wave in the distance.
Routes · New

Montevideo to Cabo Polonio: the Atlantic coast in stages

325 kilometres in five flat, forgiving stages — beach town after beach town, ending at a car-free village in the dunes with no mains electricity. Read the route →
Art-deco illustration of a ferry crossing the delta toward Carmelo, a bicycle aboard.
Routes · New

Carmelo and the quiet west

A three-hour delta crossing, a bike on deck, and Uruguay's quietest corner waiting at Carmelo. Read the route →
Plan your trip

Getting to Uruguay with a bike — and ready to ride

Start planning →
Routes

Where the riding takes you — read slowly.

All routes →
Hotel Carrasco — historic black and white photo, icon of the eastern coast
Routes · Guest essay

Coastal Utopias

From Carrasco to Neptunia along the Río de la Plata shore — a half-day ride that reads a century of successive "coastal utopias" written into the landscape. By Ester Zaha.
Uruguay by bike

How a small country takes to the bicycle

More stories →
Illustration: cyclist on a rural road between palm trees and lush trees under a clear sky.
Uruguay by bike

Slow cycle-touring — what it means here

A way of knowing a place at the right speed — not a machine for going fast.
Illustration: urban cyclist on Montevideo streets with geometric art-deco buildings.
Uruguay by bike

Montevideo is learning to ride

Not the Uruguay of long journeys, but the everyday one.
Places

Every place, on one map

Illustration: two cyclists riding a rural road through golden hills.
Places

Places

The map of every place our stories visit, one at a time.

Pedaleando Uruguay wants to be the digital home of cycling in Uruguay — as a way of travelling and a way of inhabiting the country. An editorial platform before a map; a community before a business.

Riding through, or dreaming of it? Write to us.