Today a group of us hired a taxi to take us to a national park to do some trekking. Little to my knowledge did I know that the track would be muddy from the previous four days of down pour and that pink jeans and Birkenstocks would not be appropriate. The trail at times was a foot wide, with fallen trees and bushes across the track, sometimes there was also the need to duck under some of these, it was an obstacle course. So after 3hrs of walking (along the wron...

Bolivia has been a massive culture shock! However I was talking to some Swedish people today and their slogan for this country is 'atleast it's cheap' which is very true. I arrived here from chile on a tour from San Pedro to iyuni,where I took a tour to the salt flats. It's amazing and the scenery is beautiful. The first night of the tour we stayed in the middle of nowhere, without heating or hot showers, which I went without. Did I mention it was -10 degrees ove...

My first stop in argentina!! This place is incredible, massive waterfalls that seem to go on forever. The force and sound of the water is amazing and the mist that comes off of it is very wet!! But it's pretty hot here, so not a problem. I visited the falls from the Brazilian side which is said to have better views, however I also visited the argentian side which was also spectacular, but also included a train ride to the top, and more walking paths. There was al...

I didn't like this place so much as there wasnt actually much to do in town and u needed to spend lits of money. the first day I did a jeep tour, in which a guide drove us around to different waterfalls in a rainforest, which was nice, the water however was very cold. The next day I went on a boat trip to different islands around paraty (this was rather similar to the boat trip I took in ilha grande, so wasn't that great, more so predictable. The next day was ove...

Ilha grande, an island south of rio has been my favorite place thus far. The beaches were beautiful, and clear. The first day I hiked 2.5hrs to Lopez Mendez beach, which was a little tricky, as there was a lot of uphill walking thru forest tracks, which wasn't so fun. But all in preparation for the inca trail perhaps. This was a surf beach and apparently classed as one of the best beaches in the world. The 2nd day I took a boat trip around the island to different...