Hello! This is us. Mlungu Brett and Mlungu Darren. We're updating you, for the first time, live. For over 8 months our blog has been written post-fact and at times more than a month late. But to coincide with our last Mlungu Trek post from outside of South Africa, and as we sit here in our hostel waiting to start our trek down to Sao Paulo and back to Johannesburg, Jo'burg, Jozi, we write to you, live, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio started off as a bit of a...

Thanks to all those of you that have put up with the email problem from this blog. We have word from the guys at www.offexploring.com that the problem has been fixed and you shouldn't receive multiple emails anymore. Let's hope they're right. For those of you who enjoyed getting up to 10 emails from us…we're sorry that this will stop. We wouldn't really say that we've been on holiday for the last eight months. We definitely haven't been working either. Th...

Our first South American overnight bus took us from Buenos Aires to Puerto Iguazu, the Iguazu Falls city in Argentina. The bus ride itself was pretty decent as we managed to get semi-cama seats which are effectively airplane business class seats. This certainly helped ease the 17 hour journey. Puerto Iguazu is a small town that is clearly used predominantly as a rest town for those visiting the falls and there isn't too much to do here outside of going to se...

Driving down Rivadivia Avenue for the first time into downtown Buenos Aires you'd be forgiven for thinking that you're driving toward downtown Manhattan. Yip, we were as surprised. The similarities continued with the street and avenue grid system, different districts, a subway system and the city definitely doesn't sleep. We later found out that the city was actually modeled on Manhattan. Now, before we get carried away, it is not Manhattan, but it is a very, v...

This post isn't about any specific city. It's our opportunity to vent about our worst travel experience to date. Maybe this makes it a better read cause it's something completely different. Or maybe you don't want to read it. But if you're travelling to Brazil or South America, we do recommend reading it. At the end of our incredible trip into the Amazon, we returned to Manaus to plan our next move. Our ideal plan was to head south to Peru and make our way...