Good morning - Afternoon - Night everyone! The next two days were particularly relaxing for us and not worth 2 separate blog entries. We were asked by the English couple if we wanted to walk around the National Park and see the waterfalls there, but we really couldn’t be bothered, plus once you’ve seen Iguazu falls, there aren’t many more that really compare. James and Jess came back around 1pm, and said they never made it to the NP as they couldn’t work out which bus went there after the metro. Just as well we didn’t go I guess!! We all decided to go to the San Teresa Sunday markets about 2pm, as apparently they didn’t close up until 18.30. So we caught the metro over there, then walked up the famous Escadaria Selaron steps, carrying ... read more

Oi, Today we thought we’d have a relaxing day at the Impanema Beach. So Neil and I caught the metro there, which is a 5 minute walk from the hostel, then a 10 minute journey, then another 10 minute walk to the beach. It’s a bit of a mission but it’s a better beach that the one by our hostel and better than Copacabana beach. Though saying that, we would consider ourselves beach snobs now, and the beaches around Rio really don’t compare many we have been too! The water is to rough and dirty to enter, and the sand has that dirty-sticky feel to it, but we stayed for a few hours sunbathing and then headed back to the hostel via the super market to pick up the cheap ingredients for an avocado, blue cheese ... read more

Hi Friends, Family and Fellow Bloggers, So our plan today was to head to Lapa to see the Escadaria Selarón steps, Municipal Theatre, History museum and general area. We took the Metro to Cinlandia from Botafogo, and headed to the theater first, it’s an old building and the architecture is very nice, it was closed so we couldn’t go inside. We then headed to the history museum, this was a 15 min walk, it looked good but we had very little cash on us and they wouldn’t take cards so we missed out, but we have been to a million museums now!!! We walked back up into Lapa and after wondering around and walking the longest way round (my directions), we finally arrived at the Escadaria Selarón steps. They are really cool with so many tiles; ... read more

Hello All, So today we had an 1100 o’clock bus to Rio booked up online. In the morning we updated our phones, had our free breakfast, made chicken and cheese toasties to take with us for lunch then checked out. The couple we did the walking tour with were heading to Rio as well so we all walked to the Metro station then got the Metro to the bus station. It was only 8 stops on the metro so we got there about 1000, this turned out to be a good thing because when we checked our E-tickets it never said which company to go to, to get the tickets. After asking every company in English and bad Spanish we finally got our tickets and made the bus at 1100. It was 6 hours to Rio ... read more

Hi Friends, So we woke in our new hostel: Global backpackers, its clean and best of all not too noisy at night!!! The plan was to go on the free walking tour of SP with this couple we had met; they were a Spanish girl called Maria and her French boyfriend Seb. We got the metro to Republica, where the free walking tour commenced. It’s free, however the guide will keep going on about giving a tip!! Not free then-but the going rate is approximately £3-4 each. We stayed with the 3 and a half hour tour for 30 mins as all we saw were buildings and the information was not that interesting, Vick, the couple and myself ditched the tour and managed to get a tour of the theater (Theatro municipal de Sao Paulo), so ... read more