This blog has been written by Dustin..... The time has come for us to leave Rio and make our way towards Bolivia. After a number of cancelled flight bookings for Santa Cruz and a lot of frustration we decided to just buy tickets on the 30 hr bus ride from Rio to Corumba, a town on the Brazil / Bolivia border. As we were not sure how we would feel after such a long bus ride we figured we would spend a night there before moving on to Bolivia. Our hostel sugges...

It is now the 1st of March and this morning we woke up in Rio de Janeiro! We left the peaceful island behind yesterday and four hours later we arrived at our hostel in Ipanema. This area is closer to some of the nicer beaches in Rio and we have heard that it is safer around this area. Really though we have never really felt that unsafe here in South America. Other travellers have said the same thing and the media has given some of the cities here a bad repu...

As I write this, it is now our 7th and final night here in Ilha Grande, Brazil. Grande meaning 'big' in Portuguese is for a sure a correct way to name the island. So big in fact that to get to the beaches, you need to catch a boat or walk a long way. Spending the last seven days here has been fantastic and we would love to stay on and explore more around here. The weather has been hot and sunny every day, the people are friendly, the food is great and there a...

Well it has been around ten days now since we left Sao Paulo and I am only now writing about it. I prefer to write about the place I'm in while I'm there, but time didn't allow for this. We have since spent a week in Ilha Grande and now we are in Rio de Janeiro. This will probably be brief, but saying that I could still write page after page about the fascinating city of Sao Paulo. This city that has been described to us like New York was in the 80's. It i...

It has now been one month into our trip already! I feel like it has been ages since I wrote in this blog and time is not always on my hands to access the Internet. So much has happened since I wrote my last entry so I'm not quite sure where to start. I have now lost count of the number of times we have moved around but we're seeing a lot and sometimes I feeling like I'm literally walking around the world! We spent our third day in Brazil or around about...