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Famous Hand at Punta del Este  
   

Famous Hand at Punta del Este

Uruguay

November 16th 2010
Uruguay Punta del Este Our first stop in Uruguay was to the famous beaches where the wealthy people from Brazil and Argentina come to vacation. The place is a peninsula so there are beaches everywhere. One beach is famous for the hand statue that emerges from the beach. This town had the most expensive prices of anywhere we had been so we decided to move on to a differen ... read more
South America » Uruguay

Uruguayan Flag 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
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