Callum and friends in BA

from BA to Colonia

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October 7th 2008
Didn’t manage to go rafting - SPEWING!! It turned cold, and the wind made it freezing. Just stayed at the hotel, in the pool. Cal doesn’t mind, he could stay in there all day. Sometimes I think we could stay at home and just go to the pool all day and he’d be happy. On the last day we took a cable car up to Cerro Otto and had lunch in the revolving restaurant. Perfect unspoilt view of the An ... 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