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...

Oi Rio! After a sleep in we hung out at the hotel before hopping on the local bus to the airport. We had 2 hours to wait and no McDonalds at the airport. The flight to rio took 2 hours with the guy next to us dancing the whole flight in his chair. Once we landed we grabbed our bags and jumped on the onibus to Ipanema. The bus was cheap but it took the long way, this included Copacabana beach. We made it to the hotel and grabbed a quick dinner in the hotel. We ...

Time for iguassu falls woohoo! Today it was an early 7.10 start for the falls. We met our guide Lilian at the hotel and had the tour to ourselves. We got driven across the border to the argentinean side of the falls. Here are 70% of the falls so you are able to get up close to them. Entry was $500 peso. First we got on the tourist style train up to the top section of the falls, as we were on the first train only 200 people were at the devils throat lookout which...

Hello Brazil. After an earl wake up from the late night before and a double check of the flight time we jumped in a taxi and headed to the domestic airport in buenos aires. Once checked in the through security (all in Spanish), we looked for a place to eat but we didn't have many options. After finding somewhere that does eggs we had to quickly scoff them down as our flight started to board. The flight was okay, it took about 30mins to get through the clouds and...

Good morning buenos aires! Today I woke up early at 7am - jet lag! Luckily the hotel breakfast started at 7, so up we went. It was a spread of toast, fruit, salad and croissants. I had some eggs in toast and croissants! After breakfast we had our map and decided to go check out some the sights of buenos aires. The best way to travel was via the subway, knowing little Spanish we managed to buys sube card and add peso to it. The lady said the card was for 2 peopl...