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Colonia del Sacramento

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September 18th 2007
We didn´t have to travel far to our next destination, it´s just a hour one ferry ride across the Rio del Plata from Buenos Aires to Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay. In our last blog, we talked about being beach bound, and although Uruguay has some of the best beaches in South America, unfortunately we didn´t quite get the weather for it. Temperatures had hit 30 degrees during our stay in Bu ... read more

South America » Uruguay » West » Colonia del Sacramento

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A violent Marxist urban guerrilla movement, the Tupamaros, launched in the late 1960s, led Uruguay's president to agree to military control of his administration in 1973. By yearend, the rebels had been crushed, but the military continued to expand i... ... read more