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

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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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