Day 6 -29th November, Niks 34th (eeek!) b'day - Spectacular Train Journey through the Marumbi Mountain Range and Atlantic Forest to Morretes then boat to Ilha do Mel!! Thankfully we had chosen the cheapest train class which meant no electric doors and open windows, just what I like. We had a guide on our carriage too but she only spoke Portuguese, so we had no idea what she was saying! Our carriage group were all locals but lots of fun and had already opened the ...

Day 3 - Flying east/southish near to the coast and the City of Curitiba The flight with Brazilians version of easy jet, 'GOL' wasn't too bad and we got an amazing sunrise as we reached Curitiba. We managed to see some of the landscape below, mainly forest, rivers and more forest below the red haze; it was just wicked, even on valium! Finding a cheap hostel in Curitiba was *************e was mentioned and they wanted extra money off us to become members so we even...

Our FINAL destination - Country 21, BRAZIL!!!! Day 1 - Over the border to Foz do Iguacu, the Brazilian side of the falls!! Our early start to Brazil got slightly delayed as we had a few million final postcards to write which had Argentinean stamps on (doh!) plus we got chatting to the American couple Tony and Anna too and time just slipped by...... Eventually we were on our way to the local bus station after visiting the monkey in a house nearby, weird! The borde...

Day 7 - North to the staggering majestic Iguazu Falls on the Argentinean Side! The tourist guy was right, up early we stood on the side of the highway whilst 6 buses almost empty going to Iguazu totally ignored us! Finally one stopped, a lovely packed double decker with no seats and everyone crammed in, for me it was going to be a long 4 hours......He did give us alcoholic chocolate liqueur on route though, can you see National Express doing that?!! The vegetatio...

Nightbus to the Jesuit Ruins! Our Expresso Singer bus, despite the grumpy staff was actually luxury and empty so after some valium, 8 hours later we reached a place called Posadas where we then caught another lovely double decker (that is all they do in the north!) to San Ignacio Mini where the Jesuit Ruins are. It was only a small place so we were glad we had not taken the direct bus option to here from Concordia where we would have arrived and been dumped on th...