We left our great meal with our new Aussie friends and headed straight to the bus station for our overnight bus to Uruguay. They collected our passports when we first got on the bus and that made me really nervous, so of course, I was asking the guy all these questions, but he could only answer me in Spanish. I just had to trust that it would be ok. Sure enough, they collected our passports so they could go through customs for us. At about 4am they woke us up to hand us back our passports, all stamped into Uruguay. We arrived in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay at 8:30am the next morning. Uruguay is the second smallest country in South America, larger only than Suriname. Montevideo was founded by the Spanish in the early 18th
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