We travelled from Buzios down to Paraty via Rio. We actually shouldn't have done so but Ali had confused herself and thought Paraty was en route to Ilha Grande when in fact we had driven 3 hours past it! She blames the fact that, as we lost all our guide books, she was relying on her memory of the coastline! We spent an evening enjoying a marathon hybrid 'beer pong' game with the Swedish guys and Canadian girls, which we concocted with the drinking vessels we co...

Okay, it's been a while since we've written in this beacause we've been moving around a fair bit. From Rio we headed to Saquarema, Brazil's surf capital. We stayed at a small house with a few other travellers. The weather was rubbish for the first few days so we caught up on some sleep and reading. When the sun came out we hit the beach and could see why surfers flock here. The waves were about 10-12ft and seriously impressive to watch the locals do it. Phil an...

Firstly, Happy New Year to you all! We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and NYE celebrations. Since we last updated this site, we headed to Rio de Janeiro, via a small beach town called Paraty. We stayed in Paraty for a few days and enjoyed our first proper baeches of the trip. The town was beautiful and the old town was full of beautiflu architecture and colonial buildings. The hostel was really fun too - although we did get absolutely ravaged by mosquitos. ...

We spent a night in Copacabana, on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca. This may be the world´s highest navigable lake but this seems to be inconsistently quoted! As such, it was freezing despite looking nice and sunny. We took a boat trip in the afternoon to Isla del Sol which turned out to be rather depressing! It took about 2 hours to get there - because the boats were slow, not because it was far - and when we got there we realised that we had to leave rather...