hello everyone! So to get to pantanal we spent the best part of two days on the sunshine bus!! We only ever travel in the day so wherever we ended up at dusk, we stayed the night, which in these instances was at two truckers service stations! The first one we mastered the art of erecting a tent on a gravel carpark. The next we had the luxury of grass. I actually really enjoyed it, despite the pain, it was such an adventure. The roads gradually turned into dirt tr...

OOOOh so we're now on tour. 34 of us on a big (huge) bright yellow `budget expeditions'bus!! Great people on the expedition, im really chuffed. We're now in a little colonial town called Paraty. Its really beautiful and so different to Rio. It really feels like we're getting into the sticks now - its great. We're camping at various places right the way through til 14th october!! then we get our first hotel. We're all sleeping in oldschool A - frame tents and we h...

Oi!! Wow. So this is it. Here I am in South America. Its still so unreal. So many new customs to get used to. Like saying oi, for example, which in portuguese for hello, but i cant help but feel rude saying oi to someone. Another thing i cant get used to - here they put toilet paper in the bin, not the toilet! - i Think I blocked a few loos at first! So our first week here in Rio Has been amazing. We've done the classics such as sugar loaf mountain and c...