A day of flying! A normal wake up call and a transfer to the airport in rio. Delayed an hour and had to wait on the Tarmac for 30mins before flying 4.5 hours to Santiago, Chile. Here we had a stop for an hour before boarding the big plane to Lima, Peru. At Lima we had 1.5 hours before our flight to La Paz, Bolivia. We finally got to La Paz at 3.30 woohoo!

Waking up to another Beautiful Rio day! Today we got up early and had breakfast before heading out on a boat tour on gunabarra bay. The boat tour gave us views of rio and the northern city connected by a 14km long bridge. We saw a different view of sugar loaf mountain and Christ the redeemer. We spent 2 hours on the bay in the sunshine. After the boat tour we went back to Ipanema and had a buffet style lunch with all you can eat salad and sushi and then men bri...

Waking up hungover in rio! I dragged myself downstairs to eat some breakfast- scrambled eggs on toast with some cheese. After this we headed down to Ipanema beach and laid on the beach for a few hours. It was 30 degrees and the which was packed. The water was cold with a strong current so most people were just lying on the beach. There were lots of people selling stuff and they would very loudly yell out, no great if you want to relax. On the beach I did get a...

Waking up to another beautiful 27 degree day in Rio. After waking up early and having breakfast we got on the metro to meet the walking tour. After actually finding it this time we did a 3 hour tour through downtown and Lapa, mostly learning about the Portuguese links and the various kings. At the end of the tour we were at the seleron steps, an artist decided to put tiles on all the steps. Sadly his body was one day found burnt out on the steps. After this w...

The first morning waking up in rio. The view from the hotel room was great, beach out one window the mountains and Christ the redeemer out the other. We had some breakfast and explored the local area in Ipanema stopping at the havianas shop where the shop was a lot cheaper than in australia. After this we hopped in a taxi to copacabana and walked down the beach. We then stopped at a little cafe and had some lunch and a caipirinha. After lunch we met our tour...