Day 308 to 315 - Ilha Grande - Sunday 19th to Sunday 26th August 2012 Ilha Grande, what an awesome place… After the paradise that was Paraty, we hoped to find the same here and it's fair to say that it came pretty close! We caught the afternoon ferry, well I say ferry - it was more like a cargo ship with a few wooden seats, anyway it was comfortable enough and about two hundred passengers plus me and Soph arrived safely some two hours later. Once off the boa...

Day 299 to 307 - Paraty - Friday 10th to Saturday 18th August 2012 Ah the picture perfect paradise of Paraty! We arrived early evening, after travelling for twenty six hours, to the hustle and bustle of the little bus station and jumped into a waiting taxi to take us to our new place, Pousada Guarana. We'd read quite a bit about the little Pousada and how great it was and it more than lived up to its reputation. The place was gorgeous, with simple designs but ...

Day 297, 298 - Foz do Iguacu & the Falls - Wednesday 8th, Thursday 9th August 2012 And so we have arrived……..our thirteenth and final country of our trip! Being a wee bit superstitious and given that we'd had such a great trip thus far, we were a little worried that thirteen might be unlucky for us. But as luck would have it, our host at Iguassu B & B told us, as he gave us the key to our room number thirteen (funny hey), that thirteen is actually co...

Day 296 - Puerto Iguazu and Argentina sum up - Tuesday 7th August 2012 We arrived into Puerto Iguazu and our first job was to find the hostel, usually we (Soph) has the road name, directions, local landmarks, weather charts and star guide formations to help us get to the hostel!! This time we only had the name of the road. It was still pretty early so we grabbed our bags off the bus and looked for someone to ask, luckily there was a guy outside selling some fu...

Day 295 - Travelling day & Uruguay sum up, Salto - Monday 6th August 2012 We spent the whole day and night travelling! Starting at 5.30am in Montevideo with a bus bound for Salto, then another bus over to border to Concordia in Argentina, then a five hour wait before getting on another bus, a night one this time, to take us to our final destination of Puerto Iguazu! When we came to the Uruguay / Argentina border we were greeted by the usual friendly and c...