Punte Del Este

Coasting Through Uruguay

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February 18th 2010
I opted for the overnight bus to get to Uruguay. The Argentineans are renowned for having mastered bus travel and provide a supreme amount of options in terms of companies and classes of seat available. What they neglected divulge was that the air conditioning would blast out arctic-cold air for the entire night reducing the inside of the bus to a giant refrigerator. For everyone else with warm bl ... 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