Buy “The Guru’Guay Guide to Montevideo” and
“The Guru’Guay Guide to Uruguay: Beaches, Ranches & Wine Country” on Amazon in paperback and kindle.
And on the Guru’Guay store for phone and tablet.
Uruguay and its capital Montevideo are still off-the-radar destinations in South America. Lucky you. Part of the reason is that there’s very little information available and what there is is written by writers who jet in for a few weeks and jet back out again.
The Guru’Guay Guide books to Uruguay and Montevideo are travel guidebooks with PASSION and SOUL.
Written by Karen A Higgs, they are the only Uruguay guidebooks whose author actually lives in this small South American nation. And the difference to other guidebooks is palpable.
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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 as an expert on all things Uruguay.
What readers say
“The Guru’Guay guide MADE my trip to Montevideo.”
“One of the most researched and informative travel guides I have ever read.”
“We ate the most delicious meals, drank amazing wines and made close friends–all based on the recommendations of Guru’Guay.”
“Great advice for side trips.”
“Guru’Guay’s advice saved me 500 dollars on my airline ticket.”
“Invaluable to get a real sense of Uruguayan culture.”
“This book is a gotta-have–and don’t miss her Beaches, Ranches and Wine Country guide too.”
“I don’t want to visit the most popular cafe, I want to visit the most interesting one. This book highlights what I am looking for. Montevideo, here I come!”
Guru’Guay is proud to be part of the official country brand of Uruguay and to be sponsored by the Uruguay Ministry of Tourism and the Intendencia de Montevideo, the city government
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About the Author
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 receives almost 200,000 visitors a year. In 2018, Karen was named one of Uruguay’s top influencers by myUS.com.
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).