Another good start to the day with sunshine and blue skies (I think about 22 degrees celcius). We get into in the city centre and board the Buenos Aires bus tour! With headsets provided we hook up to the English tab and view our map. As we start moving through the city we notice we appear to be on the wrong side of the bus to take photos of the main sites - oops! Quickly scrabbling acoss we settle down and enjoy the journey. A few of the pictures are from the bus journey itself however the main ones are from when we actually got off at a registered stop and wandered about ourselves. The bus takes a total of 2.5 hours to do a complete circuit but with 12 different stops Brim and decide to ... read more

I already updated you on the long bus journey from Puerto Iguazu to Buenos Aires (BA) so I will not bore you (Fuzzy take note) with the details again! Anyway, arrived in BA and took a taxi to our hostel on Avenida Corrintes. The taxi man let us out and we tried to search for the entrance! Entrance to Augur Hostel found we are buzzed into the building. As we walk up the flight of steps to reception I noticed a rather recognisable image on one of the doors-see picture! Anyhow, ignoring that, we get into the hostel and our dorm room which was quite big and only Brim and I had to share it :) Decided to take a walk into the city centre to the tourist information. 40 minutes later we get there and ... read more

Arrived at Puerto Canoas hostel thanks to Carlos ;) Hostel was very brightly painted with flowers and bird food holders attracting a number of Humming Birds just outside the door to our room with en suite!! The luxury of budget travelling cannot be overestimated ;=) We dropped off our bags had a quick look around the hostel, no communal bar and everyone seeming to keep to themselves so we walked into the town centre which was just a 5 minute from the hostel. The town was like a ghost town. Lots of the shops were closed and no one was around! However, we located a bank and then the supermarket and worked out it was just 55 pence for a large bottle of beer! The rest of that afternoon and the next day we did not ... read more

Arrived at the main coach station in Foz De Iguazu. Managed to find platforms for local buses but not entirely sure of when next bus would arrive and where to get off! Anyway, convinced Brim we didn't need a taxi and we could do it, so we boarded a bus into town. Brim had to help me with my bag over the turnstile as I got a tad stuck ! At the local bus station we both looked at each other as there were a number of platforms and again no clear signs. We spotted the tourist information and thankfully the assistant spoke sufficient English to inform us we needed to get a bus towards the airport but to get off at Remanso Grande and then take a free bus called Alimentandor to the hostel! We ... read more

When I last wrote we had made it to the bus station in Rio. Next stage was to purchase tickets for Paraty. After a bit of searching we found the correct operator and asked if they spoke English. No, so Brim, using the worst rough guide phrase book in the history of phrase books managed to ask for 2 tickets. With a bit of pointing at the computer (computer said yes!) the tickets were purchased. With about 10/15 minutes to spare we loaded our bags (with appropriate baggage stickers attached) onto the coach and settled down. A few minutes later having sat down we were asked to move - apparently we had seat numbers! The coach, was actually not bad and there was considerable more room than on the BA flight. 4.5 hours past rainforest covered ... read more