***SECOND EDITION NOW AVAILABLE*** on Amazon from 1 November 2024 If you cannot find the new edition, search on "Guru'Guay Guide to Uruguay" or go to https://www.amazon.com/GuruGuay-Guide-Uruguay-Beaches-Ranches/dp/B0DLP45TDP This is the first edition. The only guide to Uruguay by an author based full-time in Uruguay . Mentioned in the New York Times, BBC, National Geographic, Le Figaro, Decanter and more. Written by a Brit with all the contacts and knowledge accrued over two decades, this guidebook is indispensable for getting the most out of Uruguay as a visitor or expat . Isn’t this guide out of date? Not at all. With the end of the pandemic in sight, the author reviewed the guide in September 2021 . The beauty of buying a guidebook by a local. The very few updates required are collected here: https://www.guruguay.com/uruguay-guide-updates along with a few new recommendations. The Uruguay guides with passion and soul The Guru'Guay Guides are not endless dry lists. You have limited time. So the author selects only the very best or the most curious places and then goes into serious detail—so you can make travel decisions with confidence. The guide describes each destination, where to stay and eat, things to do, how to get there and features important 'what you should know' advisories. So easy to read, readers often devour a Guru'Guay guide in one sitting. Make your leisure planning stress-free and have an unforgettable time in one of South America's least-explored destinations using a Guru'Guay guide. "This guide is not your typical Lonely Planet-style with endless dry lists of things to do/see/eat. It has soul and passion too." "Full of real information from an actual local. No travel writers sent in to write about a place they have been to once. If you are going to Uruguay you must get this book. If you are not going to Uruguay, get this book to convince yourself to go." "This book is not like other travel guides that need to be ploughed through. It's written in such a friendly way." "We moved here six months ago, and this book continues to be my point of reference for life in Uruguay." "Besides the great practical advice, we indulged in some of the author's recommendations, which were spot on." Karen A Higgs  grew up in the South Wales Valleys. At 22 she found herself stranded in the Mexico City airport with just a pocket Spanish dictionary for company. Since then  she's lived most of her life in the Americas . She sang 60s covers in a psychedelic rock bar in Costa Rica. In Buenos Aires, she impressed her teenage English language students by riding a 500-cc motorbike around town. She created her first website in 1997 whilst living in the USA and  she moved to Uruguay in 2000  to work as director of communications in an international company. A decade and another career change later, Karen ventured into tourism, first as the owner of an award-winning guesthouse, and later as the  creator of Uruguay's most popular English-language site, Guru'Guay , which received its one millionth visitor in 2021.  Since then Karen has published  The Guru'Guay Guide to Montevideo  (1st ed. Jan. 2016, 2nded. Sept. 2019)--the only English-language city guide to the capital--and its companion  The Guru'Guay Guide to Uruguay: Beaches, Ranches & Wine Country  (Nov. 2017).  Karen is the only Uruguay guidebook author who actually lives in Uruguay and the difference to other guidebooks is palpable . The Uruguayan public has also fallen in love with Guru'Guay, a huge compliment as Uruguayans as a people are extremely self-critical. They tell her that no Uruguayan could have written such affectionate, yet honest, books about their country. Karen appears regularly on Uruguayan TV and radio and in the international media—The New York Times, BBC, National Geographic to name a few—as  an expert on life and travel in Uruguay.