We wanted to go to Ilha Grande which is about an hour from Rio, we had heard this is a beautiful beach resort and a wonderful place to relax. After researching the weather conditions (which has become a regular pastime of ours on this trip) we realised Ilha Grande was expecting lots of storms and therefore decided to give it a miss imagining it wouldn't be all that relaxing in the rain. The whole of the Coast was expecting storms so we thought we would go as far ...

We boarded the bus to Brazil with our new laptop and were warned by a local lady to hide it away in our backpacks due to crime on the buses! This was lovely to know when you have an 18 hour journey ahead of you, looks like we'll get no sleep then we are about to spend the next 18 hours holding on to our bags! Arriving at the border for Brazil we immediately noticed the language barrier, speaking broken Spanish to Brazilians (who speak Portuguese) was not going t...

We travelled from Iguazu to Paraguay in search of the famous city Ciudad del Este where we were to find a fantasy world of cheap electronics! We caught the local bus from Puerto Iguazu to Ciudad del Este which was packed with our backpacks in 30 degree heat and not having a clue where to get off for the border crossing! After a 30 minute journey we noticed a change, everything seemed manic, motor bikes were zooming in and out of bumper to bumper traffic whilst pe...

The journey to Iguazu was long, but comfortable and we even arrived a little early, the journey was a mere 21 hours. We quickly found a place to stay called "Guembe Hostel". We were sucked into the guy's patter which was mainly football and the offer of 2 nights in a double room for only 75 pesos, which was almost half the price of the place over the road. After a nice parrilla (BBQ) meal of local meat we had an early night as we wanted to get to the fa...

The journey to Iguazu was long, but comfortable and we even arrived a little early, the journey was a mere 21 hours. We quickly found a place to stay called "Guembe Hostel". We were sucked into the guy's patter which was mainly football and the offer of 2 nights in a double room for only 75 pesos, which was almost half the price of the place over the road. After a nice parrilla (BBQ) meal of local meat we had an early night as we wanted to get to the fa...