PdD: sunrise over this fishers town

Escape from the skyscrapers, unexpected Uruguay!

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October 30th 2007
Not really planned, but I thought about it. And after being a week in the big city Buenos Aires I wanted some peace and nature. A boat ride to Uruguay will bring me that: Colonia del Sacramento. This is a really sweet, quiet, cobbled street town. Some people from the hostel joined me, 3 from the UK went with me for a week and some did a day trip. The boat trip was a bit boring. Just before we left ... read more

South America » Uruguay

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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