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Trip to Uruguay!

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February 16th 2007
Uruguay…Where to start? It was the 8 February 2007 and we decided to pack a backpack and head to the Buquebus station in Porta Madera, Buenos Aires. This is the main bus and ferry station for transport to and from Uruguay. The bus is almost half the price of the ferry but it is 15 hours longer because it has to travel North and around the Rio De Plata delta so we thought the hell with it, we tak ... read more

South America » Uruguay » East » Punta del Este

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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