When I made it to Brazil and met up with my friends Pete and Tash.... I left Cuzco last Friday and flew into Lima for 2 nights. I must admit that I spoiled myself and stayed at the Melia Hotel in Lima (5 star) so experience Peru in a completely different way. The flight was short but I got a surprise when we hit the landing strip..it was so mist...

Be Careful, don't go, its dangerous is all I heard on the lead up to my stay in Rio. Ok, yes, it is dangerous if you are not prepared and cognoscente of the fact that the little 13 year old boys wandering around the streets mug you with knives. I figured this and wore nothing but boardies t hongs and a shirt for the whole time I was there. I wok...

Hey guys! We slept well last night, suprisingly really as were above a nightclub and the entrance to our roof top bar is directly in front of our room! Thankgod for earplugs thats all i can say! so after an early night and our first original caiprihana (how ever you spell that!) we awoke about 6.30 and decided to get up! Em decided that nature w...

Oh my God, were here, its pretty mad really as neither Em or I have slept properly apart from a wink or 2 on the plane for over 36 hrs!!! we had a bit of a nightmare at the airport where we actually thought they wouldnt let us on the plane.....not our fault, sta travels for booking us with quantas instead of BA but all sorted after an ordeal in ...

06/05/2008 T Woke up to a glorious day so booked onto the ´Christ Redeemer´ tour for the afternoon and went to the beach all morning. A taxi collected our group including four English lad´s and Serg, a Spannish guy and drove around Rio and up to a viewing point on Dona Marta, from which you could see the statue and the city. After this we drove ...

Of course we´ve left it a few days before starting this thing, the weathers been good, an we´ve been busy!!! Keyboads in the cafe´s are pretty poor so bear with any typo´s! 03/05/2008 The flight was pretty awful, delayed and long but we arrived at our hostel and got into our room by around 11am. It was hot and sunny so straight to copacabanna be...

04/04/08: Rio De Janeiro Don´t believe the hype...about being held up at gunpoint for your camera, that is! We did believe the hype; hence we only have photos from about three days into the visit! The motorway from the Airport is worth a mention, no traffic lights until you get to Copacabana (40 mins in taxi). Stayed at a hostel called Stone of ...

Highlights Food on a stick - cheese, meat etc The amazing beaches Juice bars Acai - purple berry ground and then frozen into a sorbet like treat, apparently it has lots of vitamins etc (I'm willing to believe this if it means I can eat lots without any guilt!) Can collectors - they scour the streets for any aluminium cans to then sell back to a ...

We headed back to Rio and spent the night at Lapa. this is a suburb where at night especially on the weekends the area comes alive with bands and dancing and people every where, like a small version of carnival. Spent some more time wandering around Ipanema. Sunday was all about the football! Sunday afternoon we headed to Maracana stadium, the b...

We arrived in Rio a night earlier than we expected and because the hostel we were staying in was full they put us and Danica and Shannon a couple of girls from Canada in an apartment close by. We rushed out to have a quick look at Copacabana beach which was only a couple of blocks from where we were staying, and then found a bar to watch one of ...