Hello.............have now come down from the Pantanal to the border of Argentina and Brazil to visit Iguazu falls. Did a day trip to both sides as we heard they were both well worth seeing. Even as you approach the falls you can hear it long before you see it. Fortunatley for us it had been raining a lot at the source of the river and instead of 250 seperate falls there was now only one. The amount of water is just unbelievable and the spray generated is carried...

Hello everyone..........this is so much easier than having to write emails to everyone or writing stupid group emails that are so bland. We are now in the Pantanal which is a grassland area (nothing like the photo I had to but in, no choice until we dowload our own!!!) which are flooded in the rainy season living areas of land where all the animals gather and they are therefore easy to see especially due to the lack of trees. We start off on a 3 day treck camping...

Hello everyone.............we have been on Ilha Grande for the past 5 days but unfortunatley still haven´t been able to download any photos. We left Rio on Monday having had a fantstic last few days there. Most of it was spent chilling out on Ipanema beach which is packed full of people every day. You don´t even need to move, unless you want to go in the sea, as people are constantly walking up and down the beach selling everything from corn on the co...

Hello all............... we made it!!!!! After 24 hours of travelling we finally made it to Rio last night. We got here about midnight and had a couple of drinks before heading off to bed. It soooooo hot here but I guess we can't complain. Today we have met some cool people from the hostel and spent the day at a beach about 10 km SW of Rio called Baha de playa. This place is absolutley amazing and so much life and culture about it. The next few days we are pl...