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A day in Uruguay and PANIC!

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February 22nd 2007
We had one free day so our group decided to follow the suggestion from a travel magazine and took a fast boat on a 2 hour trip to Colonia, Uruguay. This is a quaint old town with ruins of a fort, lots of nice restaurants, a light house, and many artists. We all agreed it would be a fun place to relax on the beach for a few days, buy some nice art works and eat seafood but we had to return for o ... read more

South America » Uruguay » West » Colonia del Sacramento

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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