Well, we have arrived to the end of our trip, and what an amzing city to celebrate our five weeks. Everything about Rio is amazing. It is vibrant, colourful and it has the most unbelievable landscape that a city can be built around. Every poster and photograph you have ever seen can´t do it enough justice, because everywhere you look is pretty unbelievable. We arrived in the afternoon and headed straight for Christ the Redeemer. It really does overlook the city and it is placed up on the top of the granite hill. When you get up to it, the magnitude [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone! Well, we can officially say, WE LOVE BRAZIL!! Let us just set the scene for a moment . . . The landscape is green, lush and basically a rainforest, the beaches are strips of white sand with warm, inviting water and the whole atmosphere just kind of tells you, ¨grab a drink and kick back for a while¨. The drink of choice, of course being 'caiprihinias'...what else....We obliged. Our first taste was the really cute town, Paraty. It is an old colonial town on the beach surrounded by lots of little islands. The whole atmosphere is charming and many [View Full Entry]

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Hi all, Well we survived both the 3 hour truck ride and the 12 hour bus ride... to the border of Uruguay and Argentina, and then further to Brazil... Just a quick note to tell you that this is a thermal spa area. So after a very bumpy and exhausting drive, we found ourselves in this strange town, with waterslides and people strolling around in their bathrobes... totally normal..?! Anyhoo we then managed to cross back over into Argentina..with only one small mishap. The guards did not want to let one of our tour group through...so after a lot of persuading, [View Full Entry]

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Okey dokey... now were into interesting times.... We were pleasantly surprised by the buses in South America. Talk about luxury....picture first class in an aeroplane. we had a double decker bus, with fully reclining individual seats, so it really felt like you were floating. However we then had to get onto a truck to head to the ranch.... talk about a juxtaposition! But on to the ranch we went...yaaahhhooooo! A bit of info about the ranch.. it only has 3 hourts of generatedpower (from 6pm til 9pm), so candle light was the go. It was a fully functioning cattle and sheep [View Full Entry]

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So we ended off with our surreal footy match.... We met up with our new Intrepid group, and spent a few more days in Buenos Aires and then we took (a nice ferry) to Colonia, Uruguay, where we spent two leisurely days browsing atesan shops and then we headed for the capital Montevideo. This is quite like BA- a big cosmopolitan city. True to form, someone from our group got mugged,someone ended up in hospital, half the group got sick and we lost someone for an hour in the bus station (pretty stressful, but NONE OF THOSE WERE US!!!) and we [View Full Entry]

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Ola, As you all probably know, Argentinians are mad keen soccer fans! Or as some may say, fanatics... So, a soccer/futbol game was on our list of priorities for our stay in Buenos Aires. Boca Juniors and River Plate are the two top teams here...and alas neither had a game this weekend...however considering the support and fan base, we probably wouldnt have been able to snaffle tickets anyway. We were however lucky enough to join a tour group going to the 'Racing v's Belgrano Cba' game. 'Racing' are in the top 5 fav teams of BA, however they are currently bottom [View Full Entry]

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Well, we have arrived to the land of steak, athletic men and shoes, shoes, shoes. Heaven you may say. But first things first. .. Some of you may have already heard about our epic airport experience.... But we think it deserves to be said again, for those who may have missed out. So, taking you back to Cusco briefly... we arrived bright and early at the airport, to discover that no planes were leaving due to bad weather/fog. The airline wasnt even able to give us a rough idea of delay times. so we made ourselves comfy and settled in for [View Full Entry]

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Well, we left off at the end of the Inka Trail (and our crazy train ride), but this wasn´t the end of the day . . . After a ride back to Cuzco in our minivan (with beer in hand and eighties music playing), we saw that Cuzco was ready to play. The streets were filled with families, people in traditional dress, people in costume and all sorts of bits and bobs. No matter how tired we were, this was not a time to go to bed . . . (ahhh, an actual bed, our own shower . . .) So, [View Full Entry]

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Ok... so we got a bit over excited, and put so many pictures up of the Inka Trail.... that we didnt have room for all our Machu Picchu pics! So, here you go! Enjoy. x [View Full Entry]

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Preamble.... So, a lot of people had warned us about this amazing, yet difficult experience. To be honest, the night before we set off, there were butterflies in our stomachs and a slightly raised anxiety level amongst the group... However we pùshed through and at another early hour of the morning, we put on our packs, gathered up our walking sticks, put a smile on our face and off we went. 47 kmts ahead of us.... Day 1: The trail begins at the 82 km mark. It is by the river, and the scenery is spectacular. There was a bounce in [View Full Entry]

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