We returned to Rio for one night only before our flight home. We celebrated by going to a Brazilian BBQ, where you get to eat as much as you like. You get a red and green card to indicate to the waitors when you want more meat. Ben's card was constantly on green and he ended up eating 12 cuts of meat! The next day we went on a favela tour. Favelas are the slum areas in Rio and most are run by gangs. We visited the pacified one which are now controlled by the pol...

After our hectic and exhausting week at Carnival we hopped on a bus, taxi and boat to the other side of the bay to a beach called Itacoatiara. We wanted some chill time before heading back to the UK. The beach was beautiful and our hostel was really nice, it was basically a big house with a pool table, TV room and hammocks! Ben loves a good hammock. We were herefor 10 days so it gave us lots of time to just lay on the beach. The sea was lovely and clear but the...

After a very short and wavy boat trip across the bay, we got on a bus that drops us right in the centre of Rio at our hostel in leblon. Sarah didn't enjoy the boat and went a very funny shade of green. But no sick so she is ok. When we arrived at our hostel we got our bearings around the city and picked up our carnival tickets which was only a few bus/tube stops away. And then in the evening had some drinks and made some new friends at the hostel who we would b...

From Paraty we got a ferry across to Ilhla Grande, which is a really easy island to navigate around so there was no problem finding our hostel. In our dorm room we had some Swedish hippies who didn't mind getting naked in front of us. Which Ben found rather disturbing, First day we trekked up to the parrot peak, which is a mountain shaped like the beak of a parrot. It was such a hard trek through the rainforest, it took 4 hours to reach the top and Ben was liter...

Made it to paraty, a rather short bus journey only 6 hours!! At our hostel we met every British person in South America, literally everyone we spoke to was British. On the first day we went to the waterfalls which has a natural waterfall slide, it was so much fun. There was also a water rock jump. Which was a 10m jump from a rock into a natural pool below, it took a little building up to do it but Ben jumped and made it. One day we had a beach day and just rel...