Mal Pais was a 7 hour trip from San Jose. We had to take a bus, ferry and then bus again. We found the hostel that some of our other mates were staying at which was pretty handy cause it was pretty late at night. Now on the Pacific Coast we expected a bit more out of this town people had raved about it but there was not much to do and the surf was so big that it wasn't very pleasant going in the ocean. We spent 3 nights there which was a bit of a waste but I ...

Campo Grande is the starting point to the Pantanal which are the wetlands in Brazil. We flew in and stayed here for 2 nights before we started our tour. We stayed at Campo Grande Hostel which was pretty much the only hostel near the centre of town. We booked a 2 night 3 day tour for $225 each with Santa Clara. We ended up booking a different tour from the one at the hostel and the owner of the hostel was not happy with us at all. But we didn't care as he was ...

After our flight from San Fran getting delayed we missed our connecting flight to Vegas so we had to hang around LAX for 5 hours which sucked and then we didn't get into Vegas until 9pm instead of 1pm.Caught up with the London crew which was wicked to see them. We stayed at Treasure Island which was perfect pretty cheap like $70 - $110 per night and really central on the strip. Also if you are going to Vegas make sure your taxi driver doesn't take the fre...

We arrived early morning after a 13 hour flight and feeling shattered. We caught the train into downtown San Fran which was crazy, people everywhere and heaps of homeless people.We had no idea where to go so we got a cab from there to out Hostel. Great hostel by the way. Wicked place to meet people and they book really good tours from there. We paid $50 USD for a double room. Pretty expensive but it was great location.After a classic bagel breakfast and me nearly...