20080109 - Montevideo, Uruguay

I am going back to our cruise to South America. I am still working from the end of the trip to the beginning.

On January 9th we docked in Montevideo. I took almost 500 pictures so you can imagine the editing job I have been doing. I am just guessing you are not interested in viewing 500 pictures here, especially of a place you never thought of visiting. It’s a very beautiful city. In the morning we walked a bit around the city, then in the afternoon we took a tour.



The city has many tree lined streets,

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Beautiful old buildings,

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Amazing details on roof lines,

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Some wonderful modern buildings,

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Street vendors,

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And wonderful sculptures.

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This building had a very cool figurehead.

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People collect recyclable garbage with these horse carts as a business

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We went to Plaza de la Armada - Sculpture to people who died in the Sea

We drove by the river beaches:

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Rocky beaches

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Swimming beaches

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Hotel beaches


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Marinas

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These trees were full of green parrots - this was as close as I got to a good photo


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When we left, we had to have a tug push us out. The first time we had ever seen this, most of the time the ship‘s bow thrusters are up to the job..

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That evening on the ship was the final formal dinner so they served Baked Alaska. This our bus boy with our Baked Alaska.