So, here we are on the last leg of our journey. It seems like only yesterday we were getting ready to leave the UK, now we are getting ready to return. We arrived in Rio on Saturday after a, thankfully, uneventful jouney from Ihle Grande. However, the fun began once we had arrived. It turns out that the whole of Brazil has a holiday starting on Friday 29th June and lasting about a month. And during this time everyone heads to Rio and other resorts to enjoy t...

So, last time we left you we were sat in Sao Paulo about to get a bus to Paraty. That didn´t happen. We logged off of our computers and went to find our boarding platform only to discover it didn´t exist... cue that sinking feeling. Turns out that our bus left from a different terminal. The guy selling the ticket to us was careful to point out that it left from Sao Paulo, plus all the other details of the ticket, but failed to point out that we were actually s...

A short hop from Asuncion finds us in Foz de Iguacu, Brazil. Having sorted out our immigration bits and pieces (nobody seemed overly bothered, and in fact a little put out at our insistence we get stamps) we landed at a hotel in town for the night. After much deliberating we chose, on Monday, to go to the Argentine side of the falls. Iguazu falls lies on the border of Brazil and Argentina and is both higher than Niagara and wider than Victoria falls and consists...

So, we escaped the mayhem of Bolivia. Our bus journey up to La Paz, although annoying and long, was incident-free and we hopped on a plane to Ascunsion on Friday. And we have just received an email from one of the girls on the Uyuni tour to tell us we chose the right day to fly as a wave of nationwide strikes started on Monday - doesn´t sound like fun. We had just a couple of days in Ascuncion - enjoying the warmth and the feeling that we are back to civilisat...

So, we are returned from our 4 day Tupiza-Uyuni trip and what an amazing trip it was! We had a few problems getting there. It appears that for every good bus journey in Bolivia you must suffer a bad one - and this one was pretty bad. We left just 10 minutes late from Sucre on our 'semi-cama' bus - supposedly with large reclining seats and a modicum of comfort but 'semi-cama' seems to means something different here as we were just on a normal bus, who knows what...