Got to the bus station in Rio and despite the Lonley planets warnings got a local bus to our hostel. The bus driver and the people were helpful nobody tried to mug us. The hostel was however up a big hill quite happy to be just spending the one night. Headed out to Ipanema to meet Mark and Magaret at there hostel, however we did not have the address or their number so surprisingly enough did not find them. Went back to Copacabana and arranged by e-mail to meet th...

Spent a good week in Ilha Grande have enjoyed our time spent longer than intented and could of stayed longer. It is one gorgeous beach after another no cars on the island and it is pristine rainforest with monkeys abound. Our first day it was overcast so went on a walk we saw an old prison being swallowed up by the rainforest as well as a huge aqueduct being covered by creepers. Spent the next day happily on the beach. Only incedent of note was a dog who stole Ke...

It was a long journey to get here. We spent about 23 hours on buses and another 4 hours waiting for buses. Regardless to say we arrived feeling tired, smelly and hungry! We were greeted by people trying to sell us hostels for the first time in a while. We ended up at a really nice hostel on the beach but due to our bad luck we can only stay two nights. Yes we arrived during a big occasion this time FLIP a literature festival. All rooms more than double in price w...

Iguazu falls in one word amazing one of the best most amazing sites in south america. We managed to drag ourselves out of bed after drinking for 8 am bus. We started our tour of the park on a very good mark seeing Toucans and a strange mouse rabbit type thing. Then on our way to our first site of the falls saw a river otter. Getting more and more excited we both felt like school kids as we got our first site the devils throat. Amazing hard to descride any better....