We´ve spent the last week in Rio celebrating Carnival! It´s been incredible. Our hostel provided us with some excellent people for the week although the 16 bed dorm we were in was cramped to say the least! On our arrival at 10.30pm the hostel owner took pity on us and shoved a nice cold (free) beer into our hands before we got swept away in the crowd for our first Rio night out. It set the tone for the rest of the week! We also threw ourselves into seeing...

Hi, sorry for the delay in writing-been very busy. Last day in Sao Paulo we were proper tourists-climbed a building based on the Empire State building giving 360 views of the city-its vast. They have simply built skyscrapers until they ran out of land. We didnt really like the city generally and had a disastrous night trying to find somewhere to go out-somehow missed everything and wandered the streets for hours! Then moved on to Trindade after an easy 6hour bu...

Our first blog! Weve arrived safely here in Sao Paulo! After a crammed bus and metro we made it to our hostel, having had death stares from all other passengers due to us taking up so much space with our bags... which bought us back down to earth after being upgraded on the plane! Being our first day, theres not much to report as of yet, but its very hot and humid and weve had a massive thunder storm which was fun to watch. Weve also decided to embark on our ow...