Guru'Guay on Amateur Traveler

Uruguay has just been featured in a 52-minute podcast on Amateur Traveler, one of the world’s longest running travel podcasts

The host Chris Christensen interviewed Karen A Higgs, creator of the Guru’Guay website and guidebooks. He was excited to meet her as the only international guidebook writer on Uruguay actually based in the country itself. In the interview, he confessed that this was the first time that he’s covered Uruguay since 2009 so this one in 2020 is long overdue!

Travel to Uruguay – Amateur TravelerEpisode 708

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Podcast Show Notes

After you’ve listened, check out the places and resources that Karen mentions in the podcast and others that she didn’t have time to get to: