First stop on our tour of the city was a trip to see the oldest tree in Buenos Aires - a HUGE Moreton Bay Fig from Australia!! Of course! It was just across the park from the cemetery where Eva Peron is buried, which of course was our next stop! She was really loved by her people. We drove around the Recolleta area, viewing government buildings, embassies and exclusive shopping areas. We saw the "pink palace" where Eva Peron used to appear for her people. She rea...

Another day of travel. Nice leisurely start, but later breakfast also showed us chaos and mayhem in the restaurant. People everywhere. After checking out we were taken to the airport. Our plane left late, so when we landed in São Paulo we were late and we had to walk really briskly across the airport to the international terminal and go straight to the gate. Then we left there an hour late, due to the weather conditions. The plane that was supposed to arrive...

Breakfast overlooking Copacabana Beach - what can I say? They're living on past glories? The hotel is okay I guess, but really pretty ordinary. We do have a fountain in our bathroom though - first time on this trip. The breakfast was very pedestrian. We were collected by the local guide for an 8 hour city tour which included a lot of waiting time. First we waited for the train to go up to where the statue of Christ the Redeemer is. The city was covered in some so...

Lovely, leisurely morning - breakfast by the pool again! With champagne! Sure is nice! After Brekky our bags were collected and we drove off to the helicopter pad where 4 of us went up in the helicopter for a flight over the Iguassu Falls. It was lovely! After our ten minute flight we went across the road to the bird park where we saw bright red ibises, macaws, toucans, owls and a cassowary!! We had an afternoon flight to Rio de Janeiro where we arrived at dinner...

What an incredible day! Champagne breakfast by the pool was a great start! Then when we returned to our room we were quite diverted by furry critters jumping around in the trees next to our balcony! These turned out to be coatis (pronounced co-art-ees). And we saw many more of them throughout the day. Our tour guide got us started at 8.30, before the tourists were even allowed to enter the national park! We started out the front of our hotel, overlooking part of ...