We weren´t expecting too much from Foz as everyone had said that the Argentinian side was better but we ended up having a great time there. The weather was rubbish but we headed to the national park anyway. As we walked along the trail the waterfalls got bigger and better until the massive Devil´s Throat at the end. We had a bit of trauma when a racoon quarti thing chased me, attacked my bag and stole my banana but apart from that the day was goo...

Paraty was random stop for us, we´d never heard of it but it was in the lonely planet, it was in the right direction and the Swedish couple (David and Stina) we met were going there. It turned out to be a really good stop. We were in a really nice, friendly hostel opposite the beach, actually we were almost in the hostel. When we arrived they only had one room so David and Stina had that one and we stayed next door in a room above a friendly ...

After Rio we headed to a small Island called Ilha Grande for some chilled out beach time. The boat from Angra Dos Reis took about and hour and a half across the turquoise water passing lots of small islands on the way. Ilha Grande was great, it was nice to be in a small place after Rio. We got a boat round to Lopes Medes on our first day there, the guide books say it´s Brazil´s nicest beach. It really was lovely, the sand was white and squeaked as you...

Hello from Rio de Janeiro, the first stop on our world trip! Arriving in Rio was amazing. The city is vast and surrounded by mountains, with favelas crammed together around the outside. After feeling a bit intimidated and homesick at first I ended up loving Rio. We stayed in Botafogo, not the best area but it was quite central and our hostel was ok. On our first afternoon we walked around the city and got the cable car up to the top of Sugar Loaf mountain in ...