URUGUAY TRIP

Uruguay (18 - 22 January 2009)

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January 23rd 2009
Uruguay (18-22 January 2009) On Sunday evening, after yet another weekend in Buenos Aires, I got my light baggage ready for my departure the next day to Colonia, Uruguay. Having spent some time of the weekend with 3 Australians (John and his two adult daugthers Joanne and Caroline), we decided to take the ferry from Buenos Aires over to Uruguay to visit this lovely little medival village at the ... 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