Before our arrival in Foz do Iguaçu I wasn't actually planning on writing a blog post because I figured we would see the beautiful waterfalls, and, as I'm not a literary genius that can conjure up images in peoples' heads with magnificent descriptions, I thought photos would be sufficient. But then a few strange things happened during our two days here that I thought they merited a post (or I just wanted to read about them in the future when I'm sad and missing ...

Where to begin with our time in Florianopolis... I have to admit that Negar and I were very sad leaving São Paulo and probably not very excited heading back to a beach town but I don't think we could have ever been prepared for the shenanigans ahead of us in Floripa. We took the overnight bus from São Paulo and arrived in Floripa two hours ahead of schedule (I've never been so surprised by anything in my entire life) and then took two buses to get to our hoste...

As I stated in the last post we finally reached our hostel in São Paulo around 1 am despite the bus driver's best efforts. We got to bed fairly quickly but were up the next morning quite early so we could take in the city's sights. We were drawn downstairs to the promise of coffee and breakfast and after a few minutes of chomping and discussing what we should do that day (actually just discussing how we have no idea what we're doing here and how we should have r...

Our next leg of the journey took us to Paraty, back on the mainland of Brazil and not far off from Ilha Grande. We initially tried to book a transfer from the island straight to Paraty but they wanted to charge us 85 reais (an arm and a leg) and I knew we could do it for far less. But at what psychological price you might ask? A great one. We knew the ferry for Angra dos Reis left at 10 am the day we were trying to go and that this would be the cheapest one all d...

For two nights we stayed on the incredible island of Ilha Grande, Brazil's third largest that's situated about two hours south of Rio de Janeiro. For 85 reais (about $35) our hostel organized a transfer for us from Rio to a port town and then a ferry across the water to the island, which was fabulous for the most part until our arrival on the island and our trek for the hostel began. Ilha Grande is bit different in the sense that there are no private vehicles on ...