We got to El Calafate and it was a tourist town again, everyone comes here to see the Perito Moreno Glacier one of the closest ones you can get to see it really well. It took two hours to get to it and when we got here we could see why people come here. It had awesome blue colourings and we were fortunate enough to see a few chunks break off. Have a look at the photo´s attached. From here we took a 4am bus to Commodore Ridivaria or something like that where I am now writing this blog on [View Full Entry]

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From Ushuaia the southern most city in the world to Punta Arenas in Chile, this trip took us around 12 hours and we did an overnight in this city before heading to Puerto Natales - the launching pad for our accent on Torres del Paine National Park. Nothing interesting to note about Punta Arenas except that the price went up and that we had the best Lomito (steak sandwich) ever. We arrived late into Puerto Natales and were greeted by an old lady from Niko´s a Hostel mentioned in the lonely planet who offered us a price we couldn´t refuse [View Full Entry]

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We left Buenos Aires on the 21st on Aerolineas Argentina on a flight to Rio Grande (10:30 am - 2:30pm) we actually arrived at our accommodation at 11:45pm that night. Why you ask? Well the plane which because we are tourists we pay double - broke down and had to land at Trelew in the middle of nowhere. The 3-4hr wait turned into 7 and we were a little annoyed. Nothing to do in the airport except eat overpriced food and wait not knowing what was going on. They flew down their engineers who quietly fixed the problems and flew [View Full Entry]

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We´d taken the best bus we´d ever been on from Paraguay for 16-18 hours, I can´t remember anymore and arrived around 10am in Buenos Aires and decided to find accommodation in San Telmo (named after Saint Elmo but they put the T from saint infront of Elmo?? too much vino me thinks). Found a hotel Bris del Mar @ 40 pesos a night - a bargain for a double ($16 AUD for 2). The first thing I could say about this place is that I could live here in a second. I love it, its fantastic, the people are great, [View Full Entry]

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Now the first view I had of Sao Paulo at night from the airplane was a city that just didn´t end. It was massive. From the plane it was difficult to determine where the centre of the city actually was because there were massive clusters of sky scrapers everywhere. For those travellers who only venture to Rio here and Iguazu, this is nothing like the rest of Brazil, nothing like it. It´s a pretty clean young and well organised city with the most efficient subway system I´ve ever seen. You have to wait less than a minute between trains and the [View Full Entry]

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From leaving Sao Paulo, Brazil we were about to arrive Foz do Iguacu to do the Brazilian side of the Cataracts Iguazú Falls one of the best in the world, when I discovered that my camera was not in the bag where I left it. 10:1, one of the pricks on the bus had it and I immediately had enemy´s everywhere. Worse than loosing a Canon Ixus 60 was that my 1 gig card had photos of Manaus, Sao Paulo and the end of our Amazon river trip and they were in the hands of a theiving cock head. The wost [View Full Entry]

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The aircon area in the boat was upstairs and this was where we spent the first night. There was an elderly lady who worked on the boat and we dubbed her ¨The Hammock Nazi¨- because if you didn´t have your hammock in the correct spot (males & females were separate) or where she wanted it - then you got moved. And we got moved! Sleeping in the upstairs the first night was hell, the area was so jam-packed that each hammock touched the next and if you needed to change position during the night, then all the hammocks around moved in [View Full Entry]

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Belem About a 12hr overnight bus ride arriving at 7 am we were finally in a big city - around 2 million people. Craziness. Belem is a land of street vendors and entrepreneurism right on the Amazon river. You can see its charm with the old Port still loading like it once did a hundred years earlier and a central market nextdoor with all the fish, meat and fruit / vegetables you desire, interesting smells but you can tell that not much has changed and it has been the same every day. It is chaotic but steeped in character of [View Full Entry]

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The next day from Bara we caught the first bus out of dodge to Sao Louis another one of the Portuguese early settlements that produced sugarcane and had a good little slave trading racket going on. They´ve done up the old heritage centre of the town and we actually prefered it´s vibe to that of Salvador and the shopping street is insane. You can take a boat ride to Alcantara where all the sugar Barons once lived in the many mansions (most ruined). One of the two ways to get there is a boat that takes about 1:15 and it [View Full Entry]

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Well its been another couple of weeks and I´ve been in country for five weeks now and when I last left you I was leaving Fortaleza heading to a funky little beach town called Jericoacoaca. It’s a cross between Airlee Beach mixed with Coral Bay (WA - people will understand Dowdell) with sandy roads everywhere and heaps of accommodation and restaurants for the tourists. It also must have one of the worlds largest number of beach buggies because everyone has them and run sand dune tours and take you out to some lakes to swim etc. Then in the arvo [View Full Entry]

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