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Just a couple of hours to go until we catch our bus and head to Rio. We´ve checked, doublé and triple checked the time and the tickets so all going well in the morning we´ll be in Rio de Janeiro and ready for Carnival on Saturday. Can´t wait.......we´ll keep you posted. Oh, and we´ve decided to stay on an extra month so it´ll be 6 months all up. ... read more

With just under 2 weeks to go until Carnival it´s time for a well deserved rest from all this travelling. We need to recharge our batteries before some serious mayhem in Rio. Yes, I´m sure you all have no sympathy for us whatsoever but backpacking is actually tiring and at times stressful (the biggest violins you can find please, altogether now). Our chosen destination is Ihla de Santa Catarina in southern Brazil. We step off our overnight bus (yes another one!) at Florianópolis, the gateway to the island and get approached by a guy who introduces himself as Alejandro and tells he can help us with accommodation on the south of the island where we are heading. We just need to pay him 10 reis for the petrol to drive us there. We decline and then ... read more

It´s amazing how much the scenery hás changed this far up north to lush, green and tropical which also means it´s now not only hot but very humid. After arriving at 10am we find a hostel and hit the tourist info and find basically there is the waterfalls and the 3 frontiers to see and thats pretty much it. As we knew we were doing the falls the next day we headed to the 3 frontiers. The Três Frontiers which is a lookout point on the Iguazu river where you can see the Brazil about 50 meters across the river and Paraguay about 300 meters to the left. Its not every day you stand on the border of 3 countries. The next day we got up early (8am) and headed to the bus to Iguazu Falls.... ... read more