The Pantanal: 2nd - 5th February We booked a 3 night 4 day tour with Santa Clara, a company recommended to us by the owner of the hostel in Foz. We were staying at a farm in the Pantanal with activities planned for us. We got a minibus to the edge of the pantanal at bucas de piranhas, where we then transferred to an open top truck, which we continued our journey in on sand tracks!! Was a bumpy ride - sometimes being thrown out of our seats haha!!! We a...

Lets begin where the last blog started... The bus journey to foz. It was actually ok in the end, the bus was half empty so we both had 2 seats to lie down on and the bus arrived 2 hours early!! Monday 28th Jan: Wow the hostel!! Was such a cool place, there was a camper van converted into a bedroom, hammocks at the bar and bright colours everywhere!! Our tent was a basic pop up tent, so we were lucky it didn't rain!!! ( there was no sleeping mat, so we sl...

Wow!! What an eventful 11 days!! Lets go back to the beginning! So glad we flew out of Heathrow on Thursday and not Friday as I think we would still be sat in Heathrow airport due to the snow!! In Frankfurt they had to de-ice the plane before we left, which was reassuring!!! When we got to Rio airport our luggage was the LAST two pieces to come through the conveyor belt - nervous times!!! Rio de Janeiro What an amazing city!! We stayed in the Leblon dist...