Getting from Iguacu to Rio involved a 25 hour bus, which was nowhere near as bad as that sounds! I also met a guy (Mark) who used to live in Withington about five mins from where I did who was also staying at my hostel. It also turned out there were three more people on the bus who all lived in Withington at one point - small world! We arrived into Rio on the 2nd March, it was the build up to carnival and we were very excited. By the time I got settled on the fi...

The move from Brazil to Argentina was easy - we jumped on a bus that took us to the migration offices - waited for us and then took us into the town! We trekked around town for a bit looking for accommodation and eventually found some! After getting settled we headed out for some dinner - my first Argentinian steak! It was awesome - possibly the best steak I'd ever had at the time; certainly up there (you must remember that I haven't eaten very good food in a lon...

We arrived into Foz de Iguacu on the Sunday morning - we decided we would just head straight to the falls and then head for the Argentinian side. There was a little bit of messing around because we needed to leave our bags somewhere and there are lots of different bus stations in Foz (one for long distance busses, one for the falls/airport, One for Argentina) but in the end we got everything sorted and headed to the falls. I had been told by quite a few people t...

Crossing from Bolivia into Brazil is also a massive contrast - again the level of development is dramatically different, the difference in price is even more dramatic and for the first time in a long time I was back to being unable to communicate with people - It showed how comfortable I'd become with my poco of Spanish! In the queue for immigration I was approached by a man offering tours to the Pantanal. This was something I was really keen to do (many years ...

I spent my day in Santa Cruz with a Brazilian guy I met on the bus. I've realised on my trip that I'm not really the biggest fan of cities - again there wasn't much to do here, we wandered around the markets and in the end ended up going to the cinema - I've definitely caught up on my cinema visits now! From here I was getting another overnight bus to Quijarro on the Brazilian border! The overnight bus from Santa Cruz was ok - it was my 4th night in a row on a b...