Being in Rio the main thing we wanted to do was throw ourselves off a mountain! Hangliding over Rio has to be one of the best places in the world to do it, flying over the city, the beach and rainforests and landing right beside the sea. We both signed up to do it and headed up to the ramp, 500 metres above Rio, where the nerves seriously set in! The hardest thing about hangliding was the fact that you have to run as fast as you can off this ramp into nothing. Ev...

Heading over to Ilha Grande from the mainland the scenery was really similar to the archipelos in Croatia with lots of deserted little islands covered in forest all over the place. When we arrived into the town on the mainland it was like being in Ireland, about 20 Irish travellers all standing around chatting about how they missed the boat but we all got together (with Mariano an Argentinian guy who spoke Portuguese) and managed to get a boat to take us across....

Florianopolis was our first experience of Brazilian beach culture and they do it well! Floripa as the locals call it is an island in Sao Paolo state and its full of Brazilians relaxing and partying, we were happy to join in after 2 months of hard travelling . It was so hot that every afternoon at almost the same time there would be a huge tropical storm. However on the first day we didnt realise this and when it clouded over we decided to walk across a few of ...

This is a must for all who travel to South America and we can now appreciate why. The falls are amazing - and so many of them!! We started on the Argentinian side and were blown away by the sheer number of waterfalls and the quantity and power of the water flowing over them. There are several walking circuits and boat trips you can do and we managed to do most of the walking circuits - lower circuit, upper superior, and garganta del diablo, the highlight of the ...

Salta is very refreshing after Mendoza. So much lush vegetation and hills around. Plus it´s also an area rich with the history of the Incan civilizations and battles of the Spanish and gauchos so there was lots to see and the scenery up here is just amazing, no wonder they were all fighting over it!We did a great daytrip to Cachi - to the west of Salta city. The drive took us through the mountains range on the Cuesta del Obispo where we saw steep, steep m...