We arrived in Rio on the 31st of January. Inwardly Laura and I were celebrating for two reasons already. Firstly, we would no longer be a part of that claustrophobic, poorly run, expensive organised tour we had been on since Santigo and from now on we would be free again. Secondly, we had been looking forward to Carnival since forever. Don´t get me wrong on that hateful tour we saw some great sights, had some unique experiences and met some brilliant peo...

When we were planning this trip Iguassu Falls was one of the places that made me want to come to South America and it was one of the sights I was determined to see. It did not dissappoint and it almost made the anticlimax of Ascuncion in Paraguay worth it. Paraguay did not leave a huge impression on me and will be remembered more for the balloon slashing antics of the proprietor of a campsite in Trinidad after a cake fight in his resteraunt (it was Luke The Dri...

When we were planning this trip Iguassu Falls was one of the places that made me want to come to South America and it was one of the sights I was determined to see. It did not dissappoint and it almost made the anticlimax of Ascuncion in Paraguay worth it. Paraguay did not leave a huge impression on me and will be remembered more for the balloon slashing antics of the proprietor of a campsite in Trinidad after a cake fight in his resteraunt (it was Luke The Dri...

Tickets for our boat are booked. Phew! We leave tomorrow at 7am and arrive at Tefe at 6am on Saturday morning. So now we just have to get Laura a hammock. We got the tickets of a friend of our Hostel Owner who came to the Hostel and gave us the tickets there and then. Apparently he will take us to the boat tomorrow morning and introduce us to the captain who will give us a place on deck. We shall see. He gave us the tickets for 100 reals when the actual boat com...

Yesterday we arrived in Manaus. One of only a handful of cities in the world that can only be reached by boat or plane. Our second and final day in Sau Paulo was spent getting our tickets to get here (hitching a ride on the flight to Bogota) with ourselves shuttling between the Portugeuse speaking travel agents and our English speaking hostel receptionist with scraps of paper on which the TA had written instructions that our HR could interpret for us. Very long w...