The halfway point was in site and Chloe´s departure was on the horizon but not before we undertook some serious South American debauchery in the shape of La Paz and explored the spiritual history of Bolivia in Lake Titicaca. After the laid-back, at one with nature trekking in Samaipata we headed back to Santa Cruz, place of the infamous L. Lynch ´ladpack´ robbery. Determined to avoid a repeat of the incident we hung onto our posessions for dear life as we boa...

Wildlife and Thieving After Bonito Lorcs and I headed to the Pantanal, a large area of wetlands in the west of Brazil and into parts of Bolivia, where the wildlife is meant to be the best in the country. We slept in hammocks on a farm and during the days could go on various treks, piranha fishing (I caught 5, Lorcan caught 1....not that anyone´s counting), horse riding, trekking through the bush, looking (but failing to see) jaguars and pumas. The campiste wher...

Wildlife and Thieving After Bonito Lorcs and I headed to the Pantanal, a large area of wetlands in the west of Brazil and into parts of Bolivia, where the wildlife is meant to be the best in the country. We slept in hammocks on a farm and during the days could go on various treks, piranha fishing (I caught 5, Lorcan caught 1....not that anyone´s counting), horse riding, trekking through the bush, looking (but failing to see) jaguars and pumas. The campiste wher...

Chloe and myself have been in Brazil for five days now and ´surprised´would be the word best used to sum our time up so far. Surprised firstly at just how vast and diverse not only Rio or Brazil were but the whole of South America. Surprised at how expensive travelling around is, mainly due to the sheer size of these South American countries and mainly surprised that noone who´d been before that we´d spoken to had told us any of this stuff! After waiting to ...