Reminising..

Carnival in Uruguay!

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February 23rd 2008
Carnival…dancing…birthdays…cerveza and pizza are what mostly made up our last few weeks in Uruguay! Of course we did manage to squeeze in some more sightseeing too! Seriously, we couldn’t have picked a better time to come back to Uruguay! Las Llamadas were on both the Thursday and the Friday nights. Just recently they have separated Las Llamadas into two nights as previously it would star ... read more

South America » Uruguay » District of Montevideo

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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