Hello one and all! Well we had a lovely early start today - on the bus by 8.30. We had a few people join us on it - a guy called Toby from Norway and 3 crazy brazilian guys! They looked like they were trying to be hard and 'down with it' but one of them was wearing a bum bag - someone should have told him that it was ruining his image! It was clear after a while why we had left early - it took about 2 hours to cross the border. I'm not sure whether that...

So today we visited the Brazilian side of the falls! Good lord that is one hell of an amount of water! we had booked ourselves onto the Macuco Safari tour, which basically involved a weird golf buggy train that took us through part of the forest. We were luckily enough to be shown three very exciting trees (a real highlight to the day as you can imagine!). The tour then continued as a walk through the shrubs, down to the water. This is where we caught the boat th...

Hi Everyone! Hope you are all well! So we have left Parati and arrived at Foz do Iguazu...after a minor detour to Sao Paulo. (After five or so random people on the street telling us to be really careful and watch our belongings we decided that possibly it wasnt the best place to be. Also the tourist attractions weren't all that appealing - one of which was the largest post office in Brazil - exciting stuff eh?!) Foz do Iguazu lies on the border of Brazil an...

Well we have moved onto our next location - Parati! Slightly more beautiful that Rio! (I will add photos soon once I find a computer that seems to accept them!) This place has a real european feel to it. We are staying in the historical part of the town - its just so pretty! We arrived at a really good time as Parati is in the middle of a festival - there is loads of stalls (slightly dangerous for me as I do like the odd necklace or pair of earrings!) and live mu...

Hi Everyone!!! So the journey has begun...finally! We arrived in Rio on Wednesday morning and it was already hot you'll all be glad to know back in Britain, you lucky things! Our hostel is pretty basic but it is only two blocks from Copacabana beach and the centre of Copacabana itself you we cant really complain! The people we are sharing with are great so its been a good laugh so far! Since we've been here we've been on Copacabana and Ipanema beaches whi...