Rio take 2! So what springs to mind when you think of Rio de Janeiro...Christ redeemer statue, sugar loaf mountain, beaches and thong bikinis... Tick tick tick. That's what we did in our last 2 days in South America! Sugarloaf cable car had some beautiful vistas looking back onto the city from the bay. Although we were there early-ish the Christ redeemer statue, which is 'behind' the city looking out onto the bay towards sugarloaf, was barely visible from all t...

Bonito means beautiful in Portuguese and the name is well deserving of the place. It felt like driving through the lush farmlands of the midlands but only with much more vast and flatter plains, dotted with the odd palm tree and herds of white Brahman cattle stretching under blue cloud streaked skies. Farmer Browns paradise! If you have watched the animated movie 'Rio', then you would understand the painted picture of the bustling bird life that we discovered in...

We climbed aboard our flight to Brasilia with a plane full of suited up business men ... and us in our flip flops and sunnies. Brasilia is the capital city and political centre of Brazil. The reason why we went to Brasilia is because our travel buddy Anthony recommended we come check out the architecture...so we did. Over the course of 3 months we have become more and more lax with planning, from booking accommodation online after sussing out the best location a...

Morro de Sao Paulo: From Recife we caught the overnight bus to Salvador where we caught a 2 hour ferry across to an island just south - Morro de Sao Paulo. This Atlantic ocean island could give some carribean holiday destinations a run for their money - clear blue waters and palm trees, from a distance the island looked like a fan of coconut trees popping out of the ocean. The ferry drops you at the north point of the island, where you make our way down either w...

Recife and Olinda: A quick 2 hour bus ride from Joao Pesso and we were in Recife. We only had the afternoon to explore both Recife and Olinda, an artsy historic village just 6km north of Recife, so we decided to start with Olinda. Olinda was like a mini Cartagena in Brasil! The red-tiled roofs, explosion of palm trees, colonial churches and twisting cobbled streets perched on a hill make for some beautiful photo ops! Not only does it have stunning vistas and tr...