hello from montevideo in today's video we continue our tour of uruguay's capital city
in this episode we'll try a proper chivito, a typical uruguauan dish, served two different ways
we'll tour the interior of the iconic palacio salvo
we'll stroll along the longest sidewalk in the world we'll enjoy a bit of greenery
at parque rodo and we'll also stop for that iconic postcard photo at the montevideo sign
so we invite you to join us as we continue getting to know montevideo uruguay just a little better
so since our rental apartment overlooked plaza independencia or independence
square we decided to start our visit there first up the artigas mausoleum
well we just learned something new underneath la salle independencia you have the mausoleum
to artigas who was the man who liberated uruguay from the united provinces of the river plate
yeah correct yeah it's a well it's a little bit of a long story but uh basically he's the uh
the big uh figure liberator of uruguay you know yeah and uh yeah right under the monument
there is the mausoleum yeah so you're gonna find the stairs to come down
on both sides of the monument you come down and you go inside and you have uh the place where his
remains are like i mean his ashes yeah there's like an urn in the center and it's guarded by
soldiers yeah it's guarded by a guard of honor but i think they change it every hour it's only two
but uh every hour they have a fresh uh we actually saw that change yeah it's dimly
lit and we should also mention it's free as well it's free yeah the other interesting thing about
this independence plaza here is it's basically it it's what separates the historic old town
from the kind of the downtown core yeah yeah yeah so you have that walking pedestrian street that we
went yesterday it's like the boundary between viejra and san diego gold and the new yeah
so this right here is palacio salvo an iconic landmark in montevideo's old town this was the
tallest building in all of south america up until the year 1935. if you think palacio salvo looks
familiar that's because you can find its twin palacio barolo across the pond in buenos aires
argentina both were designed by the italian architect mario palanti originally the idea
for this particular structure was to build a hotel however in the end only one floor ever functioned
as that and all the other floors were turned into apartments and office spaces during our tour we
also visited the viewing deck on the 25th floor where you get a bird's eye view of montevideo
one
then it was time for lunch we went to body spanico because we had heard this place serves a great
chivito (national dish of Uruguay) all right so we got back from the visiting that very impressive
building what did you guys think the palace salvo yeah we ended up joining a guided tour it was an
hour long we paid 250 uruguayan pesos per person roughly seven or eight dollars right now yeah
and it was super interesting because we were able to go up to the observation tower see
the whole city we also visited different floors within the building it was actually built and
designed to be a hotel but that business didn't go so well for various reasons so then they just
like joined some of the hotel rooms and turned it into apartments and basically sold it off so today
over a thousand people live inside this building they also have offices and we kind of got to see
the layout yeah it's a nice uh it's a nice visit yeah the views from up there are amazing you see
the port you see the river you see the city and the building itself needs a lot of uh restoration
yeah it's been uh left a little bit in a decaying state and uh yeah they're all apartments now
small apartments i think they're the biggest one is about uh 600 square feet i'll be like 60
square meters so it's something to do if you're in the city and you want to do something different
that's a nice option yes for sure i'd recommend it yeah to climb up there and to take a look
and you hear a little bit about the history and i was surprised that that building was
uh constructed in uh five years very quickly for the size of it it was built in the 1920s
five years uh 28. it's going to be 100 years old soon yeah and there's a building that's almost
like a replica of it just 10 meters shorter in buenos aires it's called palacio barolo
exactly so if you're going there visit both buildings the one in montevideo uruguay
it was designed by the same architect and the reason we're sitting down we're having lunch we're
going to be trying two ways canadian style and on the dish we'll show it to you when it arrives
so the two chivitos have arrived at the table we have the canadian one
on the dish on the plate it's called yeah it's a heaping mountain of everything you
can possibly imagine but it's called canadian because it's got bacon on top
bacon apparently is very canadian and then we got this one sandwich style the only difference is
minus the bacon so we're going to split everything guys got the bread the other bread the bread yeah
let's just dig in gotta find a way to do this my dad's going for the sandwich version of the dish
i'm having this mountain of food yeah i don't think i mentioned the ingredients
um but just what i'm seeing at first sight you've got the beef of course the steak which is
the main ingredient then there's just layers of ham and cheese and fried egg and olives
and macedonian salad the potato salad lettuce tomato beet root carrots olives it's all there
everything good really really tasty very good got a lot of mayo and
the mozzarella cheese is all melted i mean yeah you've got to try it if you
and friends to help you out because this is not uh this is not a meager dish let me say
i don't feel like the camera even does it does this dish justice like if it makes it
look smaller on the screen than it is in person it's a mammoth portion we've got
our work we've got our work cut out with three people to eat the two of these so
but it's fantastic and we should mention it's the national dish of uruguay
so if you come to uruguay you absolutely have to try the chivito to sample uruguayan food
hey guys hello today is another day we forgot to wrap up yesterday's video forgot to finish
the video yeah we came back after lunch took a little rest did some work and then we met up
with a with a good friend who lives here yeah first i have to mention like the plan had been
to go to the gaucho museum which we mentioned so much and then we got there and it's closed
for renovations at the moment right so yeah we weren't able to do that we just came back
to the apartment had a siesta as usual how do you remember that i totally forgot about that
experience that's so sad i was looking forward to that the museum is located inside an old palace
especially having gone to two gaucho events earlier in the year i mean i would have loved
to have gone and learned more and maybe to see artifacts or whatever it was in the museum
but yeah another time um and yeah then in the evening we went out to a market mercado ferrando
to meet up with a friend and we had some delicious food there so that was fun we sure did so overall
was a really good day yeah um action-packed to the point where we forgot to wrap it up so
we are doing it this morning and as a sneak peek this is our last day in montevideo
yes and we're going to be visiting a completely different part of the city yeah so we're going to
visit the beach walk along the rambla and we're all dressed up and ready to go so stay tuned
on our final morning in montevideo uruguay we decided to hop in a taxi and visit bositos this
is a beachside neighborhood and it's a beautiful place to enjoy a stroll along the waterfront
the ramla is the longest continued sidewalk in the world stretching 22.2 kilometers in length
down the coast of montevideo uruguay we also stopped to visit the montevideo city sign
which we were told gets repainted very often so you never know what colors you're going to get
i found a bag with that marijuana i i was walking yeah yeah and i saw it and i i just
kept the one walking you know i mean i'm not gonna grab it and these guys they found it
right in the middle of the walkway and they started jumping up and down and streaming
you know it was a nice little the size of a fish fish a fist size you know of uh mary jane
so yeah uh now we're at the park now we're at the park yes we're getting distracted here
we are at rodol park yeah very nice place lots of like different ponds and lagoons
people walking their dogs lots of dogs nice because the weather has uh
warmed up i had to remove my hoodie because it's really getting too much and a beautiful day to
walk you know nice breeze again it's a nice time of the year because you don't have that
cold and humid and you don't have that extreme heat that it doesn't let you do anything you
know like i mean you cannot even walk so now it's a very very nice uh type of weather and
uh what did you guys think of the beach that was nice huh nice the beaches it reminds me a lot of
brazil and copacabana not the beach itself the the ocean or the the sand but the buildings along the
the promenade you know they're all equal height square with the glass outside it's a typical uh
construction that you would see in copacabana or ipanema you know in brazil
and it right away reminded me with the horseshoe type of uh
distribution you know like along the beach and uh the uh malecon you know where the people walk
and they run you know the the white side sidewalk by the by the by the ocean there also the outdoor
gyms where people can work out yeah joggers bikers yeah i guess uh it's a very similar uh
architecture you know like a very very close i know it's funny because all the buildings they
must have at least maximum 10 to 12 floors and they're all the same level i think there's only
one that is a little bit higher but the rest is all the same level they don't go above that height
and lastly we ended the day with korean food which was such a nice surprise
well guys you would not believe our luck we found a korean restaurant in montevideo
can you believe it how lucky are we let it be said we've been loving argentine and uruguay and food
but man we haven't had asian food or korean food in a very long time
so this is a gym having lived in korea we crave our spices and like soups and just we miss the
flavors every once in a while so this is very nice finding this restaurant just around the apartment
we've ordered mandu uh pan-fried dumplings as a starter and then we've got some bibimbap oh my
gosh guys so pumped for this eating bop last time i had bibimbap was when i was in korea earlier in
the year i was like half half a year ago not that long for you geez lucky it's been like five six
months so that's long enough um this is awesome so i got the one with me so this is the tiny
section of meat i'll show you what we've got so we have the egg on top then we've got meat we've
got different vegetables carrots and it's got the gochujang sauce i'm gonna use all of it only
thing left to do guys is mix it all up oh my gosh i love that sauce look at that guys just mix it up
the more you mix it the better it tastes so it still feels surreal to be having a bibimbap
here in an authentic korean restaurant in montevideo okay let's try it
oh my god it's the real deal the real deal guys this is so authentic that's one of the
best parts about this entire meal yeah people are speaking korean inside this restaurant
a lot of the customers are korean a lot of patrons i believe the owners are
and um yeah it's like having is having authentic korean food here in south america i love it enjoy
we are back we're back from dinner from dinner how was it it's fantastic oh my gosh authentic
expected authentic delicious korean food the banchan was the highlight for me it was so
good it was basically all the all the things i was craving aside from what we ordered too so it was
like not only was what we ordered good but then we had all these nice surprises yeah and the price is
pretty decent i'd say most mains there are around the ten dollar mark yeah and that's normal for for
montevideo you're gonna you're looking at about ten bucks pricey ten bucks and up for remain yeah
it's over double what we paid in argentina but um yeah and this marks the end of our time in uruguay
nice little short trip it's kind of uh what are their appetite to do more in the country
if we were to come back it would be more like sleepy beach towns i think so and there's more
off the beaten path destinations we kind of went to two of the most famous spots
yeah but if we come back we'll be doing more uh off the grid along the coast yeah
and that wraps up our series from here yeah we hope you enjoyed it i hope you enjoyed it
our next episode will be uh probably from buenos aires buenos aires so see you there
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