At the beach

Uruguay - Montevideo, Colonial del Sacremento and Carmelo

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February 1st 2010
We arrived in Montevideo after over 24 hours of buses and walking from Peurto Iguazu in Argentina. We immediately realised the price was much higher than anywhere else we had been to date. We asked the man in the tourist office at the bus station how much the cheapest hostel was and he said 16 dollars per person. Wow, thats a lot we thought, coming from Bolivia where that would by you food, accomo ... 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