After arriving at around 5am into Curitiba, we somehow found our way to the hostel half asleep. Thankfully the rooms were ready so we slept for a few hours and then had a tasty buffet breakfast, cake was of course on the menu. They had at least 5 different ones to choose from...I love Brazil but I'm going to be morbidly obese by the time I leave. I took a walk around the city centre, the road the hostel is on is very similar to La Ramblas in Barcelona, there's ...

I've been excited about this day for a long time....I'm going to see the famous Iguazu falls! We set off in the morning, first to visit Parque do Aves - a bird park close to the falls entrance. They had so many different types of exotic birds, but it wasn't as nice seeing them in cages as it was to see them in the wild in the Pantanal. There was a gigantic boa constrictor and I got a photo with a slightly smaller one. You can feel how insanely powerful their mu...

At 7:30am, Manda and I had eaten breakfast and were picked up to be taken to ABISMO ANHUMAS!!!! It was discovered by accident in the 1970's after a bushfire destroyed the bush on someone's farm. The first people to explore the underwater network of caves all died, which is really comforting to learn in the car on your way to diving these caves. It is a huge 72metre rappel (like abseiling but with no footholds, see picture, that is abismo) into the abyss onto a pl...

Another awesome wake up call from our friendly neighbourhood howler monkeys making excruciating burping noises at 5:30am. Combined with the macaws screeching away, there was no way we'd get a sleep in! Dawn and I got up and went for a walk on the boardwalk around the hostel looking for the elusive anaconda but all we saw was a cheeky coati (like a long tailed possum) that wandered in front of us, completely comfortable with our presence. We then had a nice buff...

The last few days before boarding our train from Santa Cruz to the Brazilian border really aren't worth writing much about - we basically ate and slept and rested before hitting Brazil with full force. We left Santa Cruz at 6pm on an overnight train, after Ken, a 70 year old flamer from Canada got pickpocketed, losing his camera with an entire trips worth of photos and a wad of American cash. 13 long, cold hours later, we arrived at Quijarro, right on the Boliv...