Colonia - Uruguay

Final week in Buenos Aires

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October 7th 2008
With no school this week we are a little bit lost. On Monday we go to the park for a bit and read some guide books before deciding to go over the River Plate to Uruguay on Tuesday for a couple of days. We get up early to go to the bus terminal and buy a ticket over on the slow boat (3 hours) at 9am, returning the next day at 8pm on the fast boat (1 hour), the slow boat is good on the way over ... 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