After a nightmare bus journey from Rio to Puerto Iguazu (30 hrs with 2 unsheduled bus changes) we were in good spirits arriving to our hostel, the hostel inn. The hostel is fab, has its own pool and the bar stays open 24hrs although on the first night I was too shattered to have anything more than a 7up! Very like me I know! The next day we decided to take it easy and slept in, then took a cab to the Brazilian side of the Iguaçu falls. It was amazing. There are 275 falls along 2.7 kilometres (1.67 miles) of [View Full Entry]

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Arrived in Rio on Wed 20th Feb all excited to begin our trip, thankfully we weren´t suffering too badly from jetlag so since it was 30 deg out we decided to hit Rio´s famous beaches. Ipanema beach was the closest, its less famous than Copacanana but the locals informed us this is their fav beach. and having read about Firstly there was Ipanema Beach. The beach stretches for over a kilometer and has a beautiful backdrop of mountains and looking out on the horizon you see numerous little islands. The beach is divided into sections so the hostel staff explained these [View Full Entry]

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