We have been over the border into Paraguay for some tax free shopping. Not quite as exciting as it sounds as those who needed visas wimped out and didn´t join us! They needn´t have worried, as border control was rather slack. I´m please to say we did do something illegal though, as Darren smuggled his cigarettes over and back into Brazil. Anyway, the shopping turned out to be a bit disappointing because it was mainly electrical goods, so we ended up buying some suncream! There were lots of street stalls, and we kept having socks thrusted in our faces! Not sure why there were so many socks, as it was so hot everyone was in flip flops anyway. After Paraguay we had to get a night bus to Sao Paolo, which actually took 17 hours. We
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