It took my fast ferry 75 minutes to get from Buenos Aires in Argentina to the Uruguayan town of Colonia del Sacramento on the ... As a cross-border day-trip, it beats Dover-Calais.

I decided to take a ferry to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, for a day trip. The town is full of white, stone, and pastel-colored buildings, many of which are adorned with flowers. Together ...

Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, is the kind of city where a lot of travellers are “just passing through.” It’s easy to ...