Wrapped up for the bus journey to Iguazu!

Colonia & Florianopolis

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July 27th 2010
Hi again! We caught a one hour ferry from Buenos Aires over to Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay. It´s a relatively small old town with loads of historical sites. So we just spent a couple of days there walking around the cobbled streets checking out all the really nice old buildings and ruins. We had a cool hostel here too (El Viajero). We were a bit luckier with the weather here too. Still no c ... read more

South America » Uruguay

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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