It seems that our ong haul journeys always seem to have a story to them. This time we caught the local underground to the intercity bus station in Buenos Aires to meet our friends Jeff and Ramona to head to Puerto Madryn. In order to get into the station we had to walk through a local outdoor market. We obviously stuck out like sore thumbs, backpacks and all. So we are strolling around towards the station quite chuffed with ourselves for getting there without inc...

Our journey from Iguazu to Buenos Aires was an interesting one. We arrived at the local intercity bus station on the Brazilian side of Iguazu to find that we had missed the last bus of the day by about 5minutes. This meant we would either have to stay there another night to leave the next morning or make our way across the border to the intercity bus station on the Argentinian side of the city to catch one of the many buses that night. We decided on the latter wi...

What should have been a one way 12 hour bus journey turned into two seperate bus rides of close to 19 hours from Rio to Florianpolis via Curitiba. We caught a locaal bus to our hostel - Tucano hostel which was on the other side of the town. The hostel was voted the best hostel in Brazil in 2010 and we understood why when we got there. It was beautifully laid out with a pool and bar area as we walked in with a communal lounge, dining area and kitchen at the back. ...

The intention for this blog was to update it every week or two with our goings on... As it happens we are only 5 days in and we are already overloaded with stories of amazing places and awesome people so we are gonna have to do it more frequently so we dont forget anything or anyone. Our flight to Brazil was Loooooooong. Johannesburg - London (5 hour lay over), London - Madrid (6 hour lay over), Madrid - Sao Paulo. Needless to say we were both completely zonked ...