All we had heard were positive things about Buenos Aires and so we were pretty excited to get there. A city thats famous for tango, steak and red wine sounded like a good combination to us. As Nick only had 3 nights we decided to start touring the city straigh away and not waste a minute. We were staying in an area called San Telmo which is a traditional part of the city with cobbled streets and lots of tango clubs. We wondered around there looking for the touri...

We were rudely awaken from our extremely comfortable night bus to be told we were in sao paulo an hour before we expected at around 5am in the morning. As we wanted to leave for iguaçu falls the next day we decided to stick around for the ticket booths to open and book our seats. We had been told they opened at 6am but as that came and went we were told that they opened at 8! So after a few more hours we finally managed to get our seats out for the next night...

So after 12 crazy nights in Rio it was time to move on. Like every other backpacker who spent carnaval in Rio, we were joining the exodus and heading south to a tropical island a couple of hours from Rio. Ilha Grande is a mountainous island covered in tropical jungle with lots of fantastic beaches. We had a bit of a job finding somewhere to stay and ended up in a tented campsite which probably wasnt the best choice but it was hot and we were tired. On the plus si...

So we made it back toi Rio with a couple of days before Carnaval started and before Michelle arrived. After our budget overnight bus from ouro preto we chilled at the famous cococabana and ipanema beaches for a couple of days, hoping to top up our tans and look a little less British, still working on that one! It didnt take long for the partying to kick in and we found ourselves in a club in Ipanema where women dont have to pay and men do, that seemed fair to us ...

We finally made it to Brasilia after a gruelling 17 hour bus journey which actually wasnt as bad as we thought it might be. We decided to get a taxi to the hostel which would later prove to be a very wise move as what looked like a short walk took us an hour and that was without our oversized backpack! We were a bit worried when the taxi stopped at what looked more like a deserted army camp than a hostel but apparently we were at the the right place. The hostel w...