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Colonia de Sacramento

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October 4th 2009
Got up early (too early, Uruguay "sprung forward" last night for their DST) and went to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Colonia de Sacremento. It really feels like a town frozen in time. I had parilla today for lunch! Mmmmmm.... My cholesterol just went up a few notches. I left there on the fast ferry to Buenos Aries (back in Standard time, Argentina doesn't "spring forward" till October ... 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