Getting off the bus at Rio was a little mind boggling there is so much works going on in Brazil currently - mainly upgrading or building new infrastructure for the football (soccer) world cup in 2014 and no doubt also the Olympic games two years time in 2016. The current infrastructure is barely up to the job as it is, let alone another million people travelling through its systems... so it took us a while to get on our way find the right bus to take and head to ...

We travelled to Paratay from Ubatuba which was a pretty drive with some of it being rain forest. Once in Paratay we got talking to some English girls who gave us some good advice regarding places to stay as the YHA that we had emailed never got back to us. In return Karl gave the girls some advice as what there is left to do in Christchurch which is their next stop. We got supplies for the next few days prior to heading to the Hostels that were on the beach fron...

After getting a tip from a lady from Sao Paulo, we decided to head to a beach town called Ubatuba. It's about 2 hours north of Sao Paulo and from what a few Brazilians have told us that it's where they like to go for long weekends etc. So we decided to hit it up. As we've said before, Brazil is a little more expensive that we've been accustomed to and we thought that the place that the locals go (rather than the major touristy bits) would be more suitable to ...

After arriving back in Cuiaba from our bus trip back from Chapada we then headed in the direction of the airport to find and rent a car. We managed to find a local bus to take us. Once arriving outside our first place we went inside to find not a single person understood Spanish so Jane couldn't converse with them but have no fear as Google Translate came to our aid, we were able to set ourselves up as customers and rent a car and negotiate the locals rate instea...

So after leaving the island, we caught a bus to Curitiba and stayed the night in a cheap bus-station hotel. Then we caught a bus to Sao Paulo the next morning. We decided to stay around the airport somewhere as we had arrived at 5pm and flew at 6am the next morning. It was a bit of an expensive disaster. Lets not talk about it. We went to a hostel that has good reviews and tried to organise a tour of the Pantanal - the world's biggest wetland! It's dry se...