Greedy sea lion

Punta Del Este

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January 28th 2016
Geo: -34.9751, -54.943Queued for our tender ticket (no sticker required today) - with no shore excursion booked we hopped on the tender armed with sun cream and our books. It was hot at 9am. Ten minutes to shore. We collected a walking tour map (a 2 hour tour taking in 11 points of interest) from the tourist information office at the end of the disembarkation pier and set off for the first point ... read more

South America » Uruguay

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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