I am a normal woman who likes to learn and improve myself.
I believe that I am not the best, but I can do my best.
I love to travel to different countries and I love meeting new people.
I really enjoy exercising. I believe that people are so amazing.
Surround yourself with people who see your value and who make the effort to remind you of it.
Open your eyes to the opportunities around you and realise that opportunities are also learning experiences.
Barra de Valizas is a small town born on the shores of the sea, home to artisanal fishermen and tourists who love serenity.
You can enjoy it is a quiet influence following the Valicero Trails.
Located between huge dunes and lying on the stream of the same name, it has a marked identity as a simple and warm town, where fishermen and tourists live together.
The interior streets of grass and sand, the simple houses, the taste for homemade food and the tranquility in which one lives, embellish the place even more.
Crossing the stream, you arrive at Cerro de la Buena Vista, a granite formation practically covered by sand.
It is a natural track and pure adrenaline for fans of the sanboard.
During a walk along the coast, in the direction of Cabo Polonio, you can see remains of Don Guillermo, barge of the US Navy, run aground in 1952.
In the summer if you take a holiday, you should visit this place to enjoy and relax.
Hello, everyone, who reads my blog. I am a Thai woman who is living in Uruguay and this article, I would like to show you about Candombe.
This is video of small candombe.
This is the first time for me to see the real Candombe which makes me wonder and would like to know about it. I was searching for information, What Candombe is and why people love to see it.
In Montevideo, the Candombe starts every Summer in February for whole month.
I had been watching it with friends.
It was a lovely time for me. In the candombe, people were smiling and dancing.
Everyone was having fun along friends and family
The Candombe was a big show whice a lot of people were coming so we needed to buy tickets for our seats in advance. The shows held for two days.
If you couldn't find any ticket you still can see the small candombe whice in your neighborhood during February.
I enjoyed seeing people smiling and dancing, that made my feet moving and dancing along.
Candombe is a rhythm from Africa that has been an important part of Uruguayan culture for more than two hundred years.
Uruguay, with a population of approximately 3.2 million inhabitants, is a small country located in South America, whose neighboring countries are Brazil (162 million) to the east and Argentina (34 million) to the west.
This rhythm came to Uruguay from Africa thanks to the black slaves, and still beats in the streets, in the corridors and in the carnivals of this charming little country.
To understand how this rhythm, deeply rooted in Uruguayan culture, evolved, it is necessary to turn the pages of African and South American history to see how this contagious rhythm anchored in the coasts of Montevideo.
The texts that follow are fragments taken from books and articles about candombe, as well as opinions of some characters who have lived it very closely.
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Montevideo, capital of Uruguay was founded by the Spaniards in a process begun in 1724 and completed in 1730.
In 1750 the introduction of African slaves began. At the beginning of the 19th century, the population of African origin in Montevideo surely exceeded 50% of the inhabitants.
The origin of this population was not a homogenous Africa, but a multiethnic and culturally very varied Africa. The majority being 71% of the Bantu area, East Africa and Equatorial Africa, while the rest was of non-Bantu origin, from West Africa: Guinea, Senegal, Gambia, Sierra Leone and Costa de Oro (now Ghana).
The Candombe is the survival of the African ancestral Bantu root brought by the blacks who arrived at the Río de la Plata.
The term, is generic for all the dances of blacks: synonym then, of black dance, evocation of the ritual of the race.
His musical spirit reflects the yearnings of the unfortunate slaves, who were suddenly transplanted to South America, to be sold and subjected to hard work.
They were sorrowful souls, keeping incurable nostalgia for the native lot. In colonial times, newly arrived Africans called their drums with the name of tangó.
With this word they also called the place where blacks performed their candomberas dances, which were also called with this term.
With the word Tangó the place was designated, the instrument and by extension the dance of the blacks.
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In Montevideo, the Uruguay of the Sunday nights, the drums of the South Quarter meet in the light of the fire at an intersection of the historic black neighborhood, in a quiet corner of South America.
The flames dance in the powerful light of a bonfire that is lit to warm the drums. Rows of drummers parade down the street in a confusion of muscle, sweat and sound, filling the night with a rhythm from Africa, known as Candombe.
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The corner ritual of the street is part of the forgotten chapter of the African Diaspora.
The drums tell the story of the profound impact that African culture has had in Uruguay and elsewhere in Latin America.
In fact, Afro-Uruguayans celebrate a fragment of history, which is often ignored.
keep walking through the beach like your life never stop to be happy.
In the summer last January 2018, first time for me to visit the Piriápolis Uruguay, it’s a nice and an amazing place to visit of Uruguay.
I went with my friends, we were walking around to see the area.
I saw many fishing man and many boats are on the beach. Be hide the beach, there is the beautiful mountain and resorts with many hotels.
You can go on top and there is the restaurant where you can have food with the beautiful.
I see people are walking and enjoying with their family, I was missing my family in Thailand and that time I was missing the time I went to Australia in 2012.
It is a lovely time to visit and spend a couple hour there to walk around and enjoy your time.
OK here is the information of Piriápolis Uruguay. You can find more information of Uruguay with this website:
Located in the Department of Maldonado, only one hour away by car from the City of Montevideo, Piriápolis was the first swimming-resort in Uruguay. This beautiful city, built during the Belle epoque, unveils vestiges of an unprecedented economic zenith whose maximum expression is the Gran Hotel Argentino.
Today, Piriápolis offers a large number of hotels and has an active nightlife during the summertime. However, there are also those who choose to visit this place during the fall and the spring, and also in the winter.
Lying 60 kilometers from Atlántida, 130 kilometers from La Paloma and only 35 kilometers from Punta del Este, the City of Piriápolis revolves around Los Argentinos Promenade and the waterfront avenue known as Costanera Francisco Piria, named after its founder and one of the most distinguished citizens.
Its beaches occupy a 25-kilometer strip along the coast, from the Solís Creeks up to the Punta Negra milestone. All of them feature white sandy beaches and clear waters and welcome an infinite number of Uruguayan, Argentinian and European tourists every summer who come along to see this paradise.
The San Antonio Chapel is one of the attractions visitors should not miss during their stay in Piriápolis. It displays a wonderful sight and it may be reached by the chairlifts starting at the port or by car following a road that goes up to the top of the hill and offers unique panoramic views of the city, indelible at night.
For lovers of sport fishing, the local port and its piers, as well as several fishing spots as Punta Fría (Cold Point), Punta Colorada (Red Point) and Punta Negra (Black Point), are ideal to catch croakers and silversides, as these are rock formations that become excellent fisheries when the tide is high.
Matea with big smile
All these attractions, as well as the excellent and varied gastronomical offer treasured by the city and made up both by meat and seafood, Piriápolis is one of the cities visitors should not miss during their vacations.
This is my friend and me, we love it here.
The cat don't want to look at me hahahah oh so lovely
