Paraty is a small town on the coast of Brazil, between Sao Paulo (six hours) and Rio de Janeiro (four hours). Beautiful, old and calm are the words best describing the city and when going here it is worth staying for a few nights. We had four, which was great for just relaxing and...Read More
Kids getting the city ready for the 2014 World Cup starting in two weeks Initially we were supposed to stay two nights in Brotas, a small city four hours outside of Sao Paulo known for its outdoor activities such as rafting, canyoing and mountain biking, but instead we after just a night we decided to...Read More
On our last day in the Pantanal we finally got to go on a safari game drive in daytime, which we had been looking forward to the most in Pantanal. Like you probably know, game drives can be an all or nothing thing and unfortunately for us we did not see much that day. Luckily...Read More
In order to take advantage of the morning hours, when it is less hot than the middle of the day, we got up at 7 o’clock to go cayaking. Even though we did not see much animals other than hawks and caymans on the river it was still a great paddling trip. The water...Read More
The drive from Bonito to Pantanal was just a few hours, so we arrived our lodge, San Fransico, in the early afternoon with plenty of time to do some exploring already on the first day.After filling up on a really good lunch at the Lodge we went on a boat tour on the river...Read More
Bonito is a place hard to reach by your own as there are very few buses going there, so when we parked up to our hostel there were just a few Brazilian road trippers there from before and then there came an other overland truck from Tucan travel after a couple of days. Bonito is...Read More
Iguassu Falls is (one of) the biggest waterfalls in the World and connects Argentina with Paraguay and Brazil. It attracts over a million visitors every year and is one considered as one of the ”New Seven Wonders of the World”. It consists of 170 individual waterfalls together making up the broadest waterfall in the World....Read More
Ciudad del Este is a small border town in Paraguay, located exactly at the end of the friendship bridge from Brazil. The city is mainly made up of shopping centers and street markets, as loads of Brazilians and other tourists seeing the Iguazu Falls go over to do some cheap shopping as the level of...Read More
The last leg of our 3,5 month around the World journey has already started, which is a journey with an overland truck going for 21 days from Buenos Aires to Rio, through the drylands of San Ignacio and the wetland of the Pantanal, with stops at the Worlds biggest waterfall (in volume) in Iguassu, the...Read More
Initially we were only supposed to stay one week in Buenos Aires and then travel on to Uruguay, but after just a couple of days in Uruguay we turned back to stay another week in Baires. With the very favorable economic situation for tourist here at the moment, we have lived like kings spending almost...Read More
Colonia del Sacramento is a small Portuguese colonial town listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is also a city that is quick and easy to get to from Buenos Aires, which makes it perfect for people who want to get out just for a day or two for sightseeing, visa runs or to...Read More
When arriving in Montevideo, a city with around one and a half million people, we were surprised about how small the Uruguayan capitol felt. From our hostel downtown, we could walk to about everywhere in the city center and got to see the main sights and all of the main street just in a few hours...Read More
Normally I would not even mention food in my travel blog, but for our stay in Buenos Aires our restaurant meals deserve a chapter to themselves when talking about our travel experience in this city. Here we have eaten like never before on our trip and would like to share our reccommendation of some of...Read More
It is no secret that the economy in Argentina is not going so well at the moment. For the tourists going to Argentina this is good news as everything gets cheaper, but locals are loosing their money from inflation and jobs from poor company turnover. Some people make protests in the street and are not...Read More
About two hours after passing San Salvador de Jujuy by bus, we arrived at Salta, our first stop in Argentina. We had absolutely no impression of the city prior to our arrival, and that might have helped us getting the good experience as we had when being there. Salta was our first big city since...Read More
