We got pretty tanned at illha do mel and then we flew to foz, man planes are far superior to busses, in fox we checked into an actual hotel, it had a fountain out the front and everything. We therefore watched a few hours of tv in our air conditioned room cause apparently rainforrests are hot. We at dinner at a all you can eat barbeque and oh my, best sausages in the world, in the world. The next day we visited both the argentinian and brazilian side of the falls, it is easy to do both in the one day. [View Full Entry]

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After an overnight bus ride down to Curitiba and a two hour bus down to pontal do sul we took a little boat out to the island to see the first real sun in the Brazil part of our trip. The island has no cars and has a protected northern end which Lachlan is convinced contains some kind of top secret military base, due to the very buff perk rangers on the island and big wire fences, that or the womb of the earth, i cant remember which he decided. Anyway because of our many acquired souveneirs the three and a [View Full Entry]

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Buzios is a trendy little costal town just north of rio; kind of reminded me of a theme park without the rides, just the shops. Some places worth mentioning are Chez Crepe, probably the best most extensive selection of crepes i have ever seen, captains bar and the bar across the road from captains bar where you can listen to 5 units of live music and watch the waves trying to macro elusive geckos. We rented a buggy (the red devil) which was fun but driving in the pooring rain may have been dangerous with no wipers and all. That and [View Full Entry]

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Hey, we are now in brazil, or we have been for a few days but to lazy to write anything. The flight from lima had a 30 us departure tax, and andrew got all his toiletries thrown out by security and got pissed off about it, haha he is still sore. I was stupid and packed a bottle of grog, classy grog mind you, in my carry on whish was swiftly binned. After geting to rio via sao paulo we checked into che legarto 1 copacobana. since then its been raining, there isnt alot to do in rio in the rain. [View Full Entry]

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The train back to cusco was nice and long, and made longer still by our refusal to get off and take a buss into cusco from the outlying station, Poroy, which would have saved us half an hour travel time. We got back to cusco pretty late and decided to shun the questionable saftey of a taxi and walk arround on foot. Dinner was at McDonnalds, woops, but i managed to scoff down some cultural street food on the way there. Our 20 hr buss ride was ok, though they played the worst movie i have ever seen ´el analphabe´ which [View Full Entry]

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So our last night in cusco involved experienceing the delicacies of the street vendors and the local markets. We had meat and one veg on a stick, some kind of fried sausage on a stick, tea made from some type of grass, oil flavoured doughnuts and juice of three mangoes. And our GITs are still intact. We also came across the wholesaler of all the souvenier stores over here. Bought some local Pisco for almost nothing then went to bed to wake up too early for the train. The train ride was largely uneventlful, aguas calientes is a very touristy town, [View Full Entry]

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We came up from copa, stayed one night in puno and are now in cusco. Our hostel, LOKI, is awesome, so much to do and so many travelers, oh and they are playing harry potter rite now, woop. The first day was of general exploration of the city, then going out to a restaurant too expensive for us, but it was good food. Next finding our friend from the dorm wre are in Nick, we headed out on the town hittting up the local, called kamakase. One moment there was oasis playing then a traditional peruvian band with pan pipes and [View Full Entry]

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We just got back from isla del sol, well ok we have had breakfast and slpt for about five hours since but whatever. The boat to the island took an inordinatly long amount of time as we chugged along in the weird hot-cold weather that if found at this hight. On the island we set off on a walk from the southern tip to the north, i dont think at first andrew was convinced that this was a brilliant idea. It was long and hot but has the most beautiful views. Allong the way we had to pay several taxes, i [View Full Entry]

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With much stamping we passed into bolivia and suprising ly it didnt cost anything exxept the small entry tax into copacobana. Our reservation at hotel la cupola worked out and after working out that we wernt actualy a gay couple looking to share a bed we were given a room with four of them. The view over copa from the hotel is amazing and the whole town is relaxed and sunny. At sunset we walked to the top of the lookour north of copa and on the way down i stubed my toe and lost the skin from it. After patching [View Full Entry]

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On arrival to puno Lachlan, and to much less an extent myself became affected by altitude sickness finding it much more tiring to walk around the city. We had quite some adventure through the local makets looking for a llama hide with one poor man bicycle taxiing us around town to some very natural looking hides with flesh still somewhat attached unfortunately not what we were after. Also on the way back finding some good llama skins in the form of a gorilla costume for some reason. Waking up early the next day we were once again off to copacabana, and [View Full Entry]

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