Sob! Our last blog. Ah yes the end is near, in fact truth be told the end is nigh because we are actually writing this from back in England. Hope you've enjoyed reading the blog as much as we've enjoyed writing it and I would urge you to keep reading to the end of this one because there is an exciting little twist to round things off. So Rio, one of the activities that we were keen to do was a tour of the favelas (shanty towns). Again, a bit like the mines in B...

Coming to the end of our trip, is all very sad. Everything we do is now 'our last', this is normally very sad - our last hotel, our last hostel, our last beach town our last border crossing. But I am more than pleased to have done 'our last mammoth bus journey'. 30 hours (thirty people, thirty, three-zero) from the Pantanal to the beaches. This is something I will not miss - our last late bus, our last child who kicks our seat, our last unnecessary stop in the mi...

Final country, final week it's all very sad. But our efforts to squeeze lots into our last few weeks have been well rewarded. A month or so ago we met a couple of people in Bolivia who recommended an area of Brazil for a safari and animal hunting, sorry, spotting. We'd previously never heard of 'The Pantanal' and when we left the UK months ago it was never on our agenda. But flexibility is key so we headed off to explore, booking ourselves onto a three day safar...