One of things that I really wanted to do whilst in either Uruguay or Argentina was to visit an estancia or in simple terms a horse ranch where your could stay the night, enjoy the rural surroundings and do horsey type things during the day. I was scouting around online and found this little gem of a place not far from where I was in Montevideo. About an hour from the port town of Sacrmento De Colonia, was a small town that I cannot remembers its name, (but I goo...

Arriving at 2am in Montevideo was less than spectacular. I had no sleep as it was a relatively short journey, five hours if I remember correctly and it was just a short two hours into the fabulously boring labour day that we had then to put up with. The hostel, El Viajero was centrally located in the historical centre of the Uruguayan capital which was good. The hostel on the other hand seemed like it was made with tiny twigs that even the gentlest of touches wou...

After leaving Foz Do Iguazu and the whole taxi fiasco, I find myself on yet another bus, overnight, one of many that I will take over the following two weeks heading east to intercept another night bus. The night bus brings me into Cascavel, a small town two hours east of Foz, convenient as a meeting point for other buses that are heading south for which I can then intercept. This is where I made my connection to the most southern state capital of Brazil, Porto ...

A bit of a long bus journey had to be endured for Floripa to Foz, 16 hours in total in took. You get used to journeys like that though, you don't even think about closely missing out on a full day somewhere. Leaving at 6pm and arriving at 10am the following morning is a great way to go about long distance travelling, sher what else would you be doing during those hours? We arrived at the rodoviaria as I said around 10am and got a taxi the short distance to our h...

We arrived that morning around 7am at Floripa's rodoviaria. The city of Floripa is built half on the main land and half on the neighbouring island of Santa Catarina. I was told of beautiful beaches there so hence our decision to go there but what I didn't realise was that where we were to stay wasn't in the city but on the coast of the island, as are many of the other hostels and accommodating there. Not a problem but not what I was expecting. I was expecting cit...