Becca at the Lighthouse

Colonia Uruguay

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November 11th 2008
Hola Amigos! We traveled to Uruguay today to visit the Unesco world heritage town of Colonia. Before we could start our adventure we had to get through the ferry boarding system. We went to 5 different desks - one to tell the guy where we wanted to go, one to pay for the ticket, another for them to rip off one portion of our ticket stub, another to go through imigration, and finally another to boa ... 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