After yet another long bus journey that ended up being stuck in traffic for what felt like half the day, we ended up having to spend the night in Oruro. Our plan was to keep on going and catch the train to Uyuni, but we arrived too late and missed the next train out of town. What was supposed to be about a four hour bus ride from Cochabamba, ended up being one of the most painful bus rides we have experienced so far. You can just never predict anything in Bol...

Waking up in a new city after a midnight flight leaves a feeling of disorientation, yet a feeling of anticipation and excitement as to what is out the front door. What will this city by like? Two nights here exposed us to a world we have never experienced before. There was not another foreigner in sight and home feels further and further away the more we travel through this country. However we are pretty much left alone by the locals and do not appear to be...

After a long long bus journey from Rio de Janeiro we arrived in Santa Cruz, Bolivia on the 7th of March. The journey from Rio to Santa Cruz became such a long and adventurous journey, it is a story worth telling for just this experience alone. We had only just arrived in the country and had already learned to expect the unexpected and to be very patient. Here Dustin has written about this moment in time, look for the blog '48 hours on the road'. At around ...

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...