Group moai at sunset

Uruguay and Easter Island at Christmas

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January 4th 2006
Hope you all had a wicked Christmas and New Year and are enjoying 2006! Also hope that you are all enjoying getting back to work. Hah hah. It has been a little while since our last entry so quite a few pics and fascinating (!!) tales to share. After almost a week in Buenos Aires we decided to stretch our newly-acquired independent traveller wings and to venture into Uruguay for a week. What ... read more

South America » Uruguay » East » Punta del Diablo

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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