Rio de Janiero PART ONE We left Iracambi in the back of Robins (our Boss) Landrover, Will, Jess, Nicola, Vee and I. The day trip on three busses became an enjoyable trip through some amazing scenery. Then suddenly the drive headed down the hills from the plato of Minas Gerais to the beautiful Rio de Janerio. We hit the beach, resturants and bars eating a cow and washed down with as much Cervaja as possible. For a couple of days we just chilled, sunbathed, at...

Why we came to Iracambi? Errrm... good question! Back in December LAST YEAR we found out about Iracambi a Volunteer reforestation program. An NGO aiming to help make the conservation of the rainforest more attractive than its destruction. IN our ENGLISH: Relax, reminisce, and a great chance to make our last few pennies stretch that little bit further and in the process get fit and work on the much needed 'Returning home tan'. Did we get it right? ...

Why we came to Iracambi? Errrm... good question! Back in December LAST YEAR we found out about Iracambi a Volunteer reforestation program. An NGO aiming to help make the conservation of the rainforest more attractive than its destruction. IN our ENGLISH: Relax, reminisce, and a great chance to make our last few pennies stretch that little bit further and in the process get fit and work on the much needed 'Returning home tan'. Did we get it right? ...

Deep in the Amazon.... well almost! ___________________________ 11 countries, 245 days, Sun, rain, ice and snow. Tents, hostels, houses and campervans. A whole number of amazing people, a pig loving a dog and best of all Dutch people ...No? We are here, here being Iracambi a reforestation centre in the Atlantic Amazon, Brazil. We're volunteering for 4 weeks. Vic is Forest Futures Co-ordinator, a role where she will convince the general public to ad...

Argentina, and lets be stereotypical here, Evita, Tango, Steak and Maradonna. (Add two americans, Cuba Libres and the `Kings of Leon` and you've got it spot on!) ___________________________________________ It started funnily enough just as Bolivia closed!? We dashed across the boarder on foot to La Villazon. Only a ten minute shuffle on gravel but Instantly Argentina was worlds away from the Bolivia. Tarmac! Yes something we curse in Britain became our ...