PUNTA DEL ESTE

We Should Have Flown

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December 10th 2007
In continuing with our altered itinerary, we headed to Uruguay. After traveling for almost three months, we figured that crossing into Uruguay would be a breeze. On the contrary, it turned out to be a big pain and resulted in another epic 28+ hours of traveling and sitting on buses. We first had to travel south from Puerto Iguazu, Argentina on an overnight bus (that showed english-language ... read more

South America » Uruguay » District of Montevideo » Montevideo

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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