Tropical Araxa Resort

... the streets. It took some help from Wayne to get through. Wow it's an experience. At the bus station we are only just able to get on the bus and buy water for the trip no food. Oh well they stop at roadhouses, yes but these are shockingly overpriced places where there are no choices so we end up paying way too much on food for the trip. The bus was reasonably comfy as we got a 2 seats to ourselves as it was not a full bus. Tuesday 14th April. Arriving in Capo Grande at 11 am (we ...

... you through marsh land, and even stopped off at a lake at one point for the horses to wash themselves. It was really beautiful scenery. The next morning isn´t worth mentioning...another sweaty walk! After returning back to Campo Grande we had our bus to Iguassu Falls. This was our first experience of Argentinian buses and we didn`t want to get off after 17hrs, it was luxurious...well compared to Brazil anyway.

... not such a hard life. The first night our activity was a jeep safari, which was more like a ride in a jeep, not the best start to our trip. But then the next day we were up bright and early to rinse breakfast as usual and head out on our boat tour, covered head to toe in suncream and mozzie spray. This was really nice activity and we saw lots of monkeys, various birds and caimen, oh and capybara (the largest rodent). At one point our boat was being ...

... foxes, a variety of birds, capyburra (worlds largest rodent and they really were pretty massive), deer and literally hundreds of Caiman the spotlight would make their eyes light up and in one particular pond you shone it out and it almost looked like stars there were so many little lights all around the edges of the water. Day two and the morning was spent on another jeep safari followed by a walk (in the rain again) where we saw monkeys, armadillo and learned ...

... assuree. Si je voulais revoir la jungle apres mon etape bolivienne, c'etait pour avoir une derniere chance de voir le fameux anaconda qu'une de mes rencontres m'avait affirme avoir vu au Pantanal (region marecageuse a l'extreme ouest bresilien, pas en amazone mais le climat est tres similaire). Mais pour cela il faut de la patience, tout indiana jones certifie le sait, et 4 jours n'auront malheureusement pas ...

... makes a huge difference from the Spanish countries. Don't get me wrong, people have been generally good to us the whole way but Brazilians certainly top the list for smiles. One problem though is the change to Portuguese. Our Spanish isn't particularly good but we were able to get by and got quite comfortable with it in the end and now suddenly we're at the start again! but like I said, people are so friendly and helpful that it's not too much of a problem.

... football ending 2-2 on the night, Boca levelled things up in the last minute with a great 20 yard free kick scored by Riqelme. Boca lifted the trophy as they were alreadt 3-1 up from the first leg. There was fireworks, ticker tape and the fans went wild in Buenos Aires after the game driving around sounding their horns with massive flags hanging out of the cars. Even Lucy thought it was great and she doesnt like football! We visited Recoletta a nice ...

... of us or that they would have to dig us out of the rubble the next morning. Amusing now but terrfiying at the time. More debris fell and water was streaming in through multiple points in the ceiling... After a couple of minutes the wind subsided and we moved out and took shelter on the two bunkbeds next to the double bed. rain continued to flood in and wet a lotof the room but we managed to move all our stuff into a cupboard and slept in the lower single ...

... the Pantanal! The drive there was fantastic and provided plenty of wildlife. Sadly we passed a giant Ant Eater that had been hit by a car, an Alligator that had been squashed and a Capybara (the largest rodent in the world, bit like a giant guinea pig) that had all been left at the side of the road being picked at by the vultures! A little more interesting than the roadkill we get in England! Carrying on with our journey we stopped at a small shack to have ...

... in sea water, was interesting to see river life-some enormous fish. The kind you wouldn´t want to mess with really. Nice landscape too-used to be very forested until quite a lot was cut down for farming. Saw more parrots, rheas, and even an anteater which was an incredible highlight, to see that huuuuge shaggy creature sloping off into the sunset was stunning. Then it was tchau Brasil and onto Bolivia...