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March 17th 2008
We decided to head over to Uruguay for the day to a small colonial town, quite inspirationally named Colonia. We both realised that we knew pretty much nothing about Uruguay (and i admit probably know no more now!) but it was nice to get to another country even if just for the day. Colonia is just 50 mins by boat from Buenos Aires and is quite cute - cobbled stones and little houses but unfortunat ... read more

South America » Uruguay » West » Colonia del Sacramento

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

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Nicki Goh

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This travel blog will contain short diary entries and as many photos as possible over the 7 months that I am travelling. I will be starting off in Mont Tremblant and Montreal in Canada where I will be improving my skiing and learning some funny Quebecois French. In February I head off to South America to do a whistlestop tour of 6 countries before venturing North to Cuba, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras. I will be back sometime in June but don't even want to think about booking the return flight for the time being! Sorry if the blog is quite boring - i can't be both... full info

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