We travelled from Mendoza, Argentina to Santiago, Chile on a 7 hour bus ride going straight through the Andes. The scenery was absolutely spectacular. We had a slightly arduous customs crossing, where they literally took everything for searching and confiscated our delicious bag of lunch!We arrived to the hostel, Casa Roja, which we had selected purely on the basis of the swimming pool (complete with swim-up bar!). It was a huge mansion converted into a hostel fo...

We arrived in Buenos Aires on 2nd February, and checked into our hostel called "The Clan". It´s a huge hostel situated in the heart of Centro from where the whole city is accessible by the metro. As we sat eating breakfast, our friends, the swedes Christoffer and Mikael surfaced (who we had previously spent time with in Buzios and Party). We were fairly jaded from the 18 hour bus journey so spent the first day uploading pictures to the blog and sitting...

We spent a day on the Brazilian side of the waterfalls. This provided the overview of the falls, which are within Argentine territory. They are so so so so big! We thought we'd seen them and then walk around another corner revealing another 400m of waterfalls. Phil has been to Niagara but said that this was far more impressive. There was not a lot to do on this side of the falls so we spent a few hours walking along the trails and the jettys over the river. The...

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...