Uruguay’s bohemian beach towns

Continue up the Atlantic coast towards Brazil and you’ll find some wild and ‘spectacular’ charms

People sunbathing at the beach in Uruguay
The ‘low-key’ fishing village of Punta del Diablo, Uruguay
(Image credit: Jean-Luc Manaud/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Many visitors to Uruguay get no further from the capital, Montevideo, than the nearby resorts of Punta del Este and José Ignacio. Yet continue up the Atlantic coast towards the Brazilian border, and you’ll find some of this small South American country’s wilder and more bohemian charms, said Hugh Thomson in the FT.

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