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The old city  
   

The old city

Day 2

March 20th 2007
Everyone received a 7:00 AM wake up call...breakfast at the hotel and then we walked to the Plaza Constitucion which is located 1 block from the hotel...then onto the air-conditioned bus (29 degrees) for a bus tour of Montevideo....our hotel is located in the old part of town.....so we ventured out to see beaches, shopping malls, lots of monuments and plaza's and the highest viewing point in the ... read more
South America » Uruguay » District of Montevideo » Montevideo

Uruguayan Flag 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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