Oi from Rio de Janeiro!!! On our first day in Rio we arrived at our hostel and they tried to say we were wanting our own room which we didn’t as we had decided to slum it as Rio is a whole lot more expensive than the rest of South America. The staff were party good and spoke English though so we just went into a 4 man room which we ended up having to ourselves anyway as nobody else came so we were glad we had not paid more for it. Can I also just say that as t...

Hi All, Well we made our way to the bus station in Buenos Aires and it turned out most of the buses went to Puerto Iguassu which is practically the same as Foz do Iguaçu but just on the Argentine side. We waited till 4pm and had a couple of crap meals in the station and boarded our bus which was 18 hours and not too bad, we had good sleep. The buses are amazing in Argentina you get films, meals, pillows and blankets and a host and your seat goes practically in...

Hi All, So we finally arrived in Buenos Aires after 28 hours on the bus!! The bus stopped in BA before La Plata which it said on our ticket so we did get the right place! We got a cab to Hostel Gay and Lesbian and of course there was another nightmare awaiting us. We had bokd a private room for two online but she was saying only one person could go in that room so we ended up in a 6 bed room but just us. The woman was horrible and shouted at us but luckily ther...

Hi All, Well we are still in Bol-hell-ia as we are now calling it! We went to the bus station to get our bus to Uyuni and got a bit of a surprise when we got our money back for the bus they conned us on which was good. The bus to Uyuni was 13 hours and we were on it for ages about 4 hours when we stopped in a town with loos etc and we asked if we could go to the bathroom and he said in 5 minutes so we drove along a bit and then stopped by the side and he said w...

Hi All, Well when I last left off we were getting our bus to Puno where there was an old man at the bus station who was reeking of pee and actually peed in front of us and I just thought he was a beggar but it turned out he was on our bus and guess who he was sitting in front of?!! Yes, us! The bus was meant to take about 6-7 hours so when it got to 4am and she came up and shouted something Craig went and asked her and she said it was Puno so we tried to wake u...