What a busy day we had yesterday - i managed it all even with a hangover!! We got up earlyish to head for the Brazillian side of the Iguaçu Falls, situated within a national park. From the Brazillian side you get a wonderful overview of the hundreds of waterfalls. We were expecting alot, but the falls still managed to blow us away - so beautiful and so much power within them. We walked up to a viewing platform by the Gargantua de diablo (devils throat) and we...

Hello, After tearing ourselves away from island paradise a journey roughly east to west across the whole of Brazil lay ahead of us. We left Ilha Grande on a ferry at 10 am yesterday morning, we followed this by a taxi to the bus station where, luckily a bus was waiting to take us to Sao Paulo, 7.5 hours later we arrived in the bustling metropolis of Sao Paulo (apparantly the 3rd biggest conurbation on the planet). The Rodoviaria (bus station) was gigantic, we pu...

Hi guys,A quick message from Ilha Grande, the beautiful island about 150km off the coast west of Rio. It really is the place to get away from it all with tropical beaches, rain forest and loads of lush restaurants and plenty of bars! The island is a nationally protected area and no cars are allowed on the island - there are not any roads for them to drive on anyway!We arrived here on Friday after a 3 hour bus and one hour boat ride from Rio and reached the main s...

Hello all, We have been on a cultural outing to the Maracana to see the local Rio derby match between Vasco and Botafogo. It is quite a different experience to that of football in the UK and the style of play is completely different too, the idea is not to defend, just to score the most goals! We sat in the Vasco end, although we could've sat anywhere - once you are inside the stadium you can sit anywhere! It was a carnival-like atmoshphere, flags, drums, chant...

Hello Everybody!What a busy couple of days we have had, our feet are aching from running for buses to get us all over Rio. So what have we been up to?Monday our main mission was to find our hostel in the Santa Teresa neighbourhood of Rio. The hostel is a beautiful old colonial portuguese/french townhouse and because we are here out of tourist season we have got it to ourselves! When we got here we celebrated with a few beers, which even Sarah likes and then heade...