Rio de Janeiro is a fantastic city with much to boast about, the famous Copacabana beach, the largest carnival in the world, Christ the Redeemer a new wonder of the world, just to name a few that generically spring to mind. Ranted and raved about by tourists, adored by locals and lets not forget the…
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Poorly Petropolis
After our exploits at Rio De Janeiro’s famous carnival we were in need of some major down time and relaxation. We used our trusty lonely planet guide, various blog posts and other online information and decided to head to Petropolis, just a short hop a few hours north before heading off inland to explore more…
Christ the Redeemer
Rio de Janeiro is famous worldwide and it is also where we decided to dedicate the majority of our time here in Brazil, specifically we made a massive detour within our travel route so we could tick ‘Rio carnival’ off the bucket list. After 7 nights in one location it begins to feel normal and…
Valparisio; graffiti, steps & funiculars
A relatively small port city located two hours west of Santiago, Valparaiso is steeped in history and in geography. Rising up from the ocean side are numerous hills that make up this once famous and extremely important South American port which has been a UNESCO world heritage site since 2003. It’s these hills where most travellers…
Paraty…no we haven’t mis-spelt party!
Continuously people back home were mistaking the spelling of this luscious Brazilian town, and thinking we were repeatedly at a party and our iPhones were just coming up with even more bizarre auto correct offers than usual. In contrast to their images of us attending multiple pre carnival raves somewhere in the country, we were…
São Paulo
Our first stop in Brazil was the continents biggest metropolis.. São Paulo. We landed the day before Jonny’s 24th birthday and for that reason we had booked a nice hotel before even leaving the UK for our three days here. Quickly collecting our baggage we headed out into the sun – oh no, sorry wait,…
Santiago
Arriving in Santiago filled us with more happiness than we had ever expected upon reaching this destination on our itinerary. This was of course because we had swerved a 30 hour bus journey and instead arrived in less than two hours by plane from Arica. Absolutely thrilled with our decision we hopped in the airport…
Arica – First stop Chile
Chile was somewhat of an unknown to us. Not knowing many people who have ventured to this part of the world, coupled with the fact that it is often overshadowed by its neighbouring nations (except for the obvious region of Patagonia) meant that we were both intrigued and also slightly sceptical about what to except….
Huacachina – Desert Oasis & Sand Skiing
Huacachina is a desert oasis on the west coast of Peru and raved about by backpackers, so we were intrigued to see what the hype was all about. We got a bus to the city of Ica and then hopped in a taxi which surprisingly arrived in Huacachina just 10 minutes later. It is not…
Mancora
6am in Mancora makes the place seem like a ghost town. The only people visible were a small number of tuk tuk drivers waiting to whisk us and our fellow travellers arriving on the overnight bus away to nearby hostels and hotels. After some debating we jumped in the back of one and were driven…
Guayaquil & our Peruvian entrance
How to get from Qutio to Peru was the biggest challenge we had faced so far on our journey. We had to be in Chile for our flight to Brazil (for the carnival) by January 27th and it was already January 11th. Flights between the two countries are remarkable expensive – the cheapest we found…
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