For a quintessential Polonio experience, head to this ramshackle bar, overgrown with dense shrubbery and flowering vines. Blind bartender Joselo presides over the funky candlelit interior, serving up licor de butia (alcohol made from local palm fruit), grappamiel (honey-infused grape brandy) and stiff shots of caña (sugarcane alcohol). It's a few paces from the 4WD truck stop toward the lighthouse.
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On Laguna de Castillos' western shore (near Km 267 on Ruta 10), brothers Marcos and Juan Carlos Olivera, whose family received this land from the…
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Built in 1881, Cabo Polonio’s striking 27m-tall lighthouse provides a fabulous perspective on the point, the sea-lion colony and the surrounding dunes and…
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The 1874 completion of this local lighthouse marked La Paloma’s genesis as a summer beach resort. The unfinished first attempt collapsed in a violent…
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Built in 1881, Cabo Polonio’s striking 27m-tall lighthouse provides a fabulous perspective on the point, the sea-lion colony and the surrounding dunes and…
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On Laguna de Castillos' western shore (near Km 267 on Ruta 10), brothers Marcos and Juan Carlos Olivera, whose family received this land from the…
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The 1874 completion of this local lighthouse marked La Paloma’s genesis as a summer beach resort. The unfinished first attempt collapsed in a violent…