This was probably the best experience of our trip so far, a really special couple of days in the heart of the rain forest with our guide Sergio a local indian who knew everything there is to know about the forest. We awoke for another early start to the sound of torrential rain and were met by Sergio at our hostel. First impressions were dominated by the fact he only had one eye. We set off in a cab to Sergio´s house where he picked up his kit and he helpfully ...

We spent today at the Iguaçu (Iguazu to you Spanish speakers) falls which it´s difficult to describe, absolutlely shed loads of water falling of a lot of cliffs would be the basics but it´s definitely the most amazing natural sight I´ve ever seen (we´re having problems uploading photos at the moment as the internent connections are pretty slow but be prepared for mucho photos). We´re actually planning to go back as we visited today from the Brazilian side a...

left isla grande after an impressive 24 hour downfall of torrential rain. too many gringoes and nothing like it was in 2002 when i first went there. it pains me that cruise ships now stop at the island. beautiful beaches out of the main town though and well worth the 12km trek to the isolated beaches. (we studiously ignored the fact you can get a boat there and maintained a sense of self-satisifed smugness for having walked there) 7 hours bus ride to Sao Paulo. ...

Hello We´re now on the small island of Ilha Grande. Spent 5 days in Rio which was pretty hectic so we´ve hit the beach for a few days although, in what has become a habit on our holidays we set off on a 2 hour hike (each way) today to a beach at the other end of the island. Lovely beach (see picture) but pretty hard terrain through jungle and up and down very steep climbs (for those who were at Joe Rosser´s leaving do my sweating reached epic proportions). H...

hello, another update already, haven~t they got anything else better to do you must be thinking, well, we´re moving hostels as steve who has become self-appointed budget controller has realised we-re spending 3x our budget already so we´re moving out of our lovely terraced, gardened, free internet mansion and into something that we can actually afford. it´s very hard to get out of holiday mode and steve is the only one of us thinking about spending wisely so ...