CanadianGuy007

Hello everyone and welcome back to my travel blog! Myself and two friends are heading off to South America for 17 days starting this Friday, and I wanted to get our intinerary up here so anyone who wants to can follow along! Oct 28 - Leave Calgary, fly to Rio de Janiero via Houston Oct 29 - Arrive in Rio de Janiero, Brazil Oct 30 - Rio de Janiero Oct 31 - Rio de Janiero Nov 1 - Fly to Florianopolis, Brazil Nov 2 - Florianopolis Nov 3 - Florianopolis Nov 4 - Fly to Iguazu Falls on the Brazil/Argentina border Nov 5 - Iguazu Falls Nov 6 - Iguazu Falls Nov 7 - Fly/Bus to Punta del Este, Uruguay Nov 8 - Punta del Este Nov 9 - Punta del Este Nov 10 - Bus/Ferry ... read more

Picking up where I left off, we continued playing cards and other games on our first night on Fraser, making friends with some of the people from other jeeps on our tour, including to girls from Vancouver, a kiwi girl and a guy from Germany. Eventually nine o'clock rolled around and off went the lights in the cook shack, so flashlights in hand we all gathered up our drinks and headed down to the beach to continue the party. I've always enjoyed beaches at night time, and this was no exception, plus with no light polution, the star gazing was quite amazing, and being in the sourthern hemisphere, there are some constellations down here that I have never seen before! There were probably about 40 people down on the beach initially and many were singing and ... read more

Well, I am now in Queensland on the Sunshine Coast, although so far, we have only seen about an hour of sun, tomorrow we are off to Fraser Island for three days and two nights of 4x4ing on the largest sand island of the world, it is going to be great! In the meantime, I will get you all up to date, when I last left you it was Sunday, April 5 and we were headed up to Phillip Island near Melbourne for the world famous penguin parade... After successfuly navigating us out of the Melbourne city centre we made our way towards Phillip Island, there were showers on and off in the area, and as a typical rainy day activity we stopped off at a winery to taste the local flavor. We ended up tasting ... read more

Well, we have made it safely to Melbourne, and I think it's time for another travel update, its been a few days, but I think I should be able to fit in the highlights! I last left off after our rainy day trip to the Blue Moutains on Tuesday, the forecast for Wednesday was for more rain, and they were not wrong. We slept in a bit Wednesday morning and given the cloud and threat of rain decided to take an easy day. After some breakfast we headed down to Darling Harbour to check out the Sydney Aquarium. I made the smart decision of bringing my old U of C student ID card along, and was able to score a $10 discount for the aquarium, which is always good. The aquarium was fantastic, saw lots of ... read more

Well, we've made it safe and sound to Sydney, and it only took 20 hours of flying! The flights weren't too bad, just a little on the long side. I managed to sleep about three hours intermittently, and killed time watching a bunch of movies, but the Air Canada 777 was quite a nice plane and there was even some extra leg room for my 6'2" body! Upon arrival in Sydney at 8:45 AM customs and quarantine went smoothly, getting fogged with pesticide on landing was slightly annoying. Shane had an issue with his Visa, his middle name had been entered as his last name, which took about 20 minutes to get sorted out, but after that we breezed through and out into the taxi queue. The taxi downtown to our hostel only cost $26 which ... read more