Arrived in Foz after pretty grim overnight bus journey and spent the first afternoon recovering watching some rubbish horror movie before heading out to investigate Foz nightlife. Ended up drinking Chopp beer and playing drinking cards with Aussi soap actor Luke until we had three tottering towers of saucers on our table to show how many beers we had consumed. Got a little messy especially after he instructed the waiters to keep the beer flowing CONSTANTLY!! Al...

Herro peeps, Celebrated Tim's 32nd birthday today at a little log cabin in the Atlantic Rainforest....with a tasty BBQ feast of chicken, sweetcorn and burnt onion followed by delicious chocolate cake. Even had magic relighting candles! We got here a couple of days ago after riding the Cloud Train from Curitiba to Morettes which takes three hours through dense forest along a track 900 metres high. Pretty impressive views! Morettes is a tiny town so instead...

Howdy dudies, So arrived in Santos - A big seaside city which means Good Life apparently and boasts the Worlds Longest Beachfront Garden, its in the Guiness Book and everything. Oh yes, we are really seeing everything Brazil (and Norris McWhirter) has to offer! Stopped here mainly because as flashpackers the longest bus journey we are prepared to do is no longer than 6 hours, so this seemed like a good place to break up the journey.....but actually we chilled ...

Managed to travel a whole two hours down the coast by public transport....the first tricky non Englasiee independent travel in months after sitting on our arses all Christmas and the easy life in Oz....quite strange being back to having absolutely no idea where we are going to sleep or what bus we need to catch! Anyway successfully reached Paraty in one piece. It is a lovely little cobbled Colonial town famous for being the start of the Gold Trail and floodin...

A short minibus trip and speed boat in the dark and we landed at Ilha Grande which boasts one of Brazil's most beautiful beaches.....hurrah! After a shakey start in an unfinished hostel we settled into our new fully constructed room, we spent the next four days doing very little indeed! The island is amazing, all white beaches, turquoise water and rainforest covered mountains that run down to the sea......bliss after the madness of Rio! Decided to trek to ...