Today I went to the market which is in a really nice building in the centre of downtown São Paulo. It was crazy! You can buy pretty much anything there, loads of herbs and spices, beers, a little souvenir shop, which apparently is the only one in the city. Sweets, meats hanging all over the place, fruits that I've never seen before, weird and wonderful shapes and colours, fish lots of long ones, cakes, then there's bars and restaurants on the 2nd floor. So I tr...

Today I went on a free walking tour of downtown São Paulo, they really are the best way to see a city and find out its history. São Paulo was tiny when it was founded and grew massively over the last two century's, especially since 1970 when the government used the media to entice everyone across the country to here, but there was no social holding so that's when poverty hit! The city is split into the west zone, downtown which is the old centre, the new cen...

Pantanal Adventure Day Three . . . Today was just traumatic!!! He made us walk through a swamp barefooted, four times!! The water was so dark and murky that we couldn't see a thing, there was sinking mud, brambles, sticks, grass under my feet! He was prodding the water with a massive stick before we stepped to make sure we didn't tread on any Cayman :) great, but he didn't clean the parasites or god knows what other little animals were in there!!! I was scared...

Pantanal Adventure Day Two . . . I survived the night under the mosquito net that was kindly loaned to me by my Danish roomies :) We were up at 5am to see the sunrise, it was spectacular to look at, but we were getting tormented by Mosquitos and it was taking so long, so we escaped back in side for a break half way through!! It was funny to see though, this lodge turned into Noah's Arch, it seemed every animal from the area came for breakfast... About 8 horses,...

Pantanal Adventure Day One . . . The planning and organisation of this tour is shocking I've just been put in one place then another and not been told what is going on or what to expect next. There was only three of us starting today, so instead of them putting on a minibus they stuck us on a 6 hour public bus! But it wasn't the worst I've been on ;) We then randomly stopped at the side of the road where there was a police station and a house and kicked off th...