Breakfast at Plaza Fuerte

Day 5 ....Friday

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March 23rd 2007
After breakfast at the hotel we depart at 10:00 by bus for the airport where we pay a $16 US departure tax / per person to fly out of Montevideo. It is approximately a 35 minute flight to Buenos Aires. We will have a 1 3/4 hour stop over and then catch a flight to Iquazu Falls which is located in northeast Argentina adjacent to the Brazilian border. Part of the falls is located in Brazil but we w ... read more

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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