So from Rio De Janeiro we decided to go straight to Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil (on the border of Argentina and Paraguay) on a 23 hour bus ride, missing out Sao Paulo. The bus ride was pretty horrible but not as bad as I had imagined, I was tired from hectic Rio so managed to sleep through a good 10 hours of it. The only reason we came to Foz do Iguaçu was to see the infamous Iguaçu falls so we spent a full day just paying the park entrance fee and did a DIY tour o...

Long time since I have updated this because internet access at the hostels we have been are ridiculously busy. Anyway, the last 4 days in Rio De Janeiro were awesome, so here is a collection of stuff we did: 1) Favela Tour with "bealocal.com" about 20 pounds: This was a day tour of one of the largest Favela´s in South America and obviously the largest in Rio De Janeiro, it is called Rocinha and is absolutely huge. You need to see the pictures (which ...

Hey Everybody, So it has been our first 3 days in South America spent in Rio De Janeiro. So far, very surprisingly, there have been no disasters. We flew into Sao Paulo first and managed to make our connection into Rio and collected all our luggage all ok and made it to our Hostel in Botafogo, which is between Central Business Rio and Copacabana beach. The first day was spent exploring Botafogo, despite serious tiredness from 16 hour plane ride, and trying to f...