Saturday 270506 Ponta Pora to Bonito We finally woke the Brazilian border control staff who took an age to process us. We took our private minibuses to Bonito along a dirt road that reminded us of Route 40 in Chile and Argentina. Huge number of large termite mounds. We passed a large no of shacks built by homeless people who were waiting to be rehoused by the government. We stopped at a place along the road for lunch and had a plate of local food, then cont...

Tuesday 230506 Foz de Iguazu Slept badly on the bus but arrived at 730am to our hotel. We had a quick breakfast and got back into the minibus for a visit to the Itaipu Hydroelectric plant. The largest in the world when it was built. It is currently being updated with two new turbines which will increase the electric generation to exceed that of the new dam at the Three Gorges in China. Iguazu is located on the Borders of Brazil, Argentina & Paraguay. The I...

Tuesday 230506 Foz de Iguazu Slept badly on the overnight bus which arrived at 730am at our hotel. We had a quick breakfast and got back into the minibus for a visit to the Itaipu Hydroelectric plant. The largest in the world when it was built. It is currently being updated with two new turbines which will increase the electric generation to exceed that of the new dam at the Three Gorges in China. Iguazu is located on the Borders of Brazil, Argentina and Para...

Tuesday 160506 - Rio We joined our second Tucan Tour in Rio. This is a very different tour from our first trip. There is no Peggy to drive us to our destination - no this trip is all about using local transport where available. During our joining meeting we met up with Carmen our guide and the rest of the 19 that are in our group. They seem to be a mixture of ages mostly English with a few Oozies, Welsh and a Kiwi. Weds 170506 Rio to Paraty We had a...

060506 Rio We had a great time with Eileen & John Fees parents and Terry. We visited street markets in Copacabana, the Gypsy Market in Ipanema and spent time at Copacabana & Ipanema beaches and walking around old Rio. Fee and John were boogieboarding but the surf was getting the better of them. We all met up with Felipe and Silvestre on Sunday for lunch at a local Kilo restaurant (these are buffet restaurants where they weight your plate full of food - a...