We arrived in São Paulo on Saturday at around 1pm and took a taxi to our hostel and checked in. We then caught the metro to Paulista Avenue which is the most modern part of São Paulo and had a look around the shops and also ate lunch. It started to get really busy as there was a street party that was just about to start. We headed back to the hostel and went to a local shop to buy some alcohol and again got caught up in another street party! When we got back to...

The bus took around 4 and a half hours to get to Paraty and they were surprisingly very nice. Big coaches with great aircon! We got to Paraty on the Tuesday at around 5pm. We went for an early dinner along the river, booked a boat tour for the next day and went to bed earlyish. we got up early the next day and walked around the historical town for a bit and then we continued on to the docks where we were to catch our boat for the day. We finally found is after w...

On the 3rd February I met Kerry at Heathrow airport and we flew to Rio, arriving there on the 4th. We checked into our hostel, had some lunch and then headed to the famous Copacabana beach. It was such a surreal beach, right on the edge of the city, was really pretty but so so busy. Constantly harassed with people trying to sell you things! We came back to the hostel, showered and then went downstairs where we met some other English and American people staying in...

So I spent my final 9 days in Australia in Sydney before I headed home. I had the best time! On the first day we got there in the late afternoon so just went out for some dinner and dunks along Darling Harbour. On the second day we did a beach walk from Coogee Beach to Bondi which was great and so was the weather! We went out to Side Bar, the bar underneath the hostel, in the evening with some girls that we had met on the beach walk! On the third day we went to M...

On the 17th Jan we had planned to visit Kangaroo Island, however after looking into it it turned out to be so expensive and we had been told by a few people that it wasn't worth the money. Instead we visited Victor Harbour, around 30 mins from Cape Jarvis and we had a really good day! We had lunch and went to a couple of local markets, afterwards we took the horse drawn tram over to Granite Island where we walked around the Island taking photos of all the views a...