I should update my earlier post about La Costa Esmeralda. We just talked with our friend who has a house there, and he told us that since the Covid lockdown, 3,000 houses have been built in the formerly sparsely populated area.
Probably best in the off season.
Sounds ideal. We’ve never been there, but will put it on our list. I wonder if you can go there via coach?
That sounds like the ideal time to go to the beach towns that are overrun Jan - March, and not much better in December or April.
Looks lovely.
Don’t hold back, UK Man .
Is your rejection because of the one photo of a section of beach with too many sun worshipers, during tourist season?
Or did you take a few seconds to see the photos in the Naturaleza section, and they also failed to live up to your standards?
You could be right: it may now be horrible. I really don’t know. When we were last there, 4-5 years ago, it was an essentially unpopulated area with no tourist traps/attractions, very few buildings, only one beach restaurant, and vast areas of low sand dunes adjacent to one of the widest, most deserted, most beautiful beaches I’ve ever seen.
In sharp contrast to Punta del Este, Mar del Plata, Pinamar, and even Cariló, it seemed to me an undeveloped oasis of natural beauty, unusual on the ocean front.
If you are interested in a house or property on the Atlantic coast, Chicagoan , you might want to go a bit beyond Cariló, to Costa Esmeralda, which isn’t as developed or crowded as MDP, Pinamar, or Cariló (Or wasn’t, our last time there, in 2018 or 2019).
This photo shows how wide the beach is there.
