Wow the Favela tour was excellent a real eye opener. We got picked up about 1,30pm and taken to the bottom of the Favela (Rocinha). This favela is built on a hill next to the Tijuca national forest and above the rich neighbourhood of Gavea. Apparently most favelas are built around the rich areas as a lot of the people living the the favelas can then go and work in the richer areas. There were 10 of us on the tour and we each had to immediately jump on the back o...

So since the last time i wrote the blog you can see from my pics that we´ve been up Corcovada - very impressive and very bloody hot up there!!! The view up there is amazing but you get jostled constantly by the other hundred people up there while trying to take pics. We also have been to a footie match at the Maracana, which was just awesome. We saw Fluminense (the Rio home team) Vs Ateltico PR. The atmosphere i just cant explain, we were sat/stood in the h...

So since my last entry we´ve changed hostel here in Rio a couple more times and are now in one of the cheapest ones but where we have a TV in our twin room and it seems pretty OK and is right on the front drag of Botafogo (area in Rio we´re in). So far we´ve not really done much since we´ve been here except Friday we went up the cablecar to the top of Sugar loaf hill which gave a great view although it was a bit hazy due to the heat. On Sun...

Well our last night in Buenos Aires was very eventful! We were sat in a restaurant on the corner just up from our hostel and just as we'd finished eating at the crossroads 2 buses piled into one another with the one coming down the road towards us being shunted across into the bank opposite (squashing a man dead) then careering down the road and finally smashing into a hotel on our side of the road. It was quite traumatic to watch as there were people lay scatter...