Hola! Well - i´ve left Brazil behind and am now in Buenos Aires. My last day in Foz do Iguacu was quite interesting. My guide drove me into Argentina to see the falls from the Argentinian side - you can see more of the falls there than from the Brazilian side, which i´d wandered around the previous afternoon. The falls are a lot more interesting than you might expect as there is a series of falls - or cataracts - extending for 2.7km..... After wandering aroun...

I am now in Foz de Igaçu - note: Igaçu in Brazil and Iguazu in Argentina - anyway, i flew from Rio this morning - very straightforward - checking in was easy as was security - the airline was TAM & the plane a newish A320. Now - if they´d painted it chocolate brown & given out chocolate biscuits during the flight then they could - of course - call the airline TIM-TAM - but they aren´t & they don´t and it wouldn´t be any funnier to them that it w...

Greetings from Rio - again - though i´ve actually done something since i last wrote. Firstly, though - Copacabana - i´m staying on the sea front and it´s nice to see the Atlantic Ocean blue rather than grey. The beach front is 4km long - quite handy to know after you´ve walked up & down it a few times - i racked up over 20km on my first day. Considering that i´d like to lose 15kg & the two bags under my eyes during this trip i might just get there if...

Not much to report - i arrived at 2.15 am this morning some 5 hours late but at least i got here. The tour operator being most understanding had rescheduled my tour for tomorrow - so today has been quite civilised - just wandering around. I was actually here during Christmas 2001 so there are bits i remember from that trip. i didn`t do any tours then as the weather was bad would you believe - so hopefully i`ll get to see Sugar Loaf Mountain - well, go up it as i...