The Ranch

Colonia & Montevideo, Uruguay

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August 31st 2008
We were up ridiculously early to leave from BA to sail across the Rio de la plata to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay. The ferry took 3 hours and was quite plush (apart from the bathrooms) and on the lower deck they even had a cabaret singer, making up her own words to english songs. We arrived in Colonia and we all cottoned onto something reasonably quickly - it was warmer! Who knew?! Coloni ... read more

South America » Uruguay » District of Montevideo » 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