National Cathedral

Montevideo -->Buenos Aires

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November 3rd 2012
The ferry from Montevideo to Buenos Aires leaves at 8am and Abby and I figure it'll take about an hour to get all of our stuff from the hostel to the bus station given the fact that everything is taking a lot longer in Uruguay than we had counted on. Since neither one of us had an alarm clock we figured the only sensible thing to do would be to party all night and just go straight to the bus t ... 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