We arrived in Sao Paulo as the sun was going down and the city was cast in a beautiful orange but we couldn't appreciate it because we'd been messing around on the subway for about an hour and half trying to go two stops. It was three hours after we arrived when we finally trudged into the hostel, exhausted. After checking into our first private room in what felt like weeks we headed up to the bar for a beer and x-burger. Then we noticed the Pisco, and with the B...

Having a blast in Buenos Aires. But first we still have a few weeks worth of catching up to do blog wise. Em previously mentioned the bus journey down from Salvador. It pretty much put us on the back foot for the first few days in Rio but we pushed on through with my cold, and the awful hostel, and on the first morning we got ourselves down to Copacabana beach. It was a Sunday so the beach was too busy - hundreds and thousands of people crammed in the b...

We got to Salvador on Friday 20th Feb and Carnaval had just started. The journey from the airport (yes we cheated) was a new experience for us in terms of sights - seeing the favelas on the hillsides crowded with crumbling buildings, built-up tower blocks and bits of rainforest. It was very different to what we had seen in Asia and Europe. Salvador is gorgeous - well the Pelourinho is anyway - lots of restored colonial architecture, cobbled streets and churc...