Nature Reserve

Near the Hotel Casino is a small nature reserve. I'm not sure that Capybara should be caged like this, but inthe wild they run away before you can photograph them.

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Carmelo on a visa run

November 5th 2006
Yes, it's visa time again so we decided to go off to Carmelo in Uruguay. Having visited Colonia and Montevideo, we just wanted to go somewhere different. Fortunately, Cacciola have a ferry from Tigre which is much cheaper than Buquebus! The journey over the water took a little over 3 hours and we were a bit surprised by how shabby th ... read more

South America » Uruguay » West » Carmelo

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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