Cycle touring in Uruguay

Who's cycled Uruguay

Crossing Uruguay by bike is not a new idea: someone rode through in 1991 with a hip pack for all their luggage, and someone else uploaded their journal last week.

This library gathers first-hand accounts scattered across the web — blogs, videos, travel journals and forums — from more than fifteen nationalities, in nine languages, across three decades. Each entry links to the original and to a screenshot of the page, in case the original ever goes offline.

Read together, the journeys sketch a country. The Atlantic coast — from Chuy to Montevideo through Rocha — is the most-documented corridor, ridden above all by Brazilians who cross at the border and follow the sea south. The west is reached differently: the ferry to Colonia, Carmelo, the bridges over the Uruguay River. And the interior — the northern departments, the four- and six-thousand-kilometer routes deep inland — is told, almost always, by Uruguayans themselves. The same themes return: the wind as a constant adversary, the unexpected courtesy of passing drivers, the endless plain, the mate that appears at every stop.

The full table follows, searchable by country, language, year or depth.