What a hotel

Salto and our girlies day at the hot springs!!!!

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July 30th 2006
What a relief to finally get into our hotel after a lovely 8 hour bus, then it being sooooo damn cold!!!! Our hotel is the oldest in Salto, built in the 1800´s, very cute, but no central heating so very very cold!!!!! The photo´s don´t really do it justice. After a few hours sleep, we hoped on a local bus (yes we actaully got on another bus, after sitting on one for 8 hours), to the hot spring ... read more

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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