Rio. Wow. This place had certainly been built up for us - and it lived up to it every bit. We stayed in Ipanema beach (after hearing from every s...

Salvador is the capital of the brazillian state of Bahia and is also the thírd biggest city in Brasil at approximately 2.5 million people. Salvado...

We arrived in Salvador and immediatley decided to head off the coast to an island called Morro de Sao Paulo. It was a bout a two hour boat ri...

After a marathon 36hr bus journey we arrived in porto seguro. The 36 hrs was half the brazilian bus companise faults and half ours. We tried to...

Arrial do Cabo was the next destination after Ilha Grande, it is locvated to the east of Rio on a peninsula just befotre the coastline turns north....

We left Parati early morning and headed for a town called Angra Dos Reis that is where ferry´s leave for Ilha Grande. A nice two hour bus ride fro...

Brazil is soo big! It took us 20 hrs to get to Parati and three diiferent buses. We eventually arrived at 4am to this very small town (17,000 peopl...

The lonely planet describes the train trip to paraganua as a must see in Brazil, so we decided to add it to our itinerary. Getting the train to p...

Leaving the lovely iguazu falls and the crazy argentinian football for the sunny beaches of  the Ilha Santa Catarina and new and potentially e...

Our trip to the iguazu falls started well when we caught the full cama bus from Buenos Aires for our 20hr ride. We had heard that argentinian buses...

Ahhhh Buenos Aires, feels like home again. The streets are paved and flat, the drivers don´t drive like kamakasi´s and people in the city wear su...

One of the big tourist attractions in Bolivia is riding what is commonly known as the world’s most dangerous road, however our tour company and l...

After a few days back in La Paz after the salt lakes we headed for the town of Rurrenabaque, which is the starting point for trips into the Bolivia...

We put all our trust in a guy called Raul in La Paz, for our trip down to the salt plains (the guide books say don´t do this ever) but you don´t ...

Ah La Paz, what a place. We left Puno by bus and passed through copabana, all the time reading the lonely planet, which pretty much says if we donÂ...

We arrived on a day bus (for a change) from Cusco at about 3 in the afternooon, and as usual were greeted at the bus stop by people trying to get u...

We arrived in Cusco, the ancient stronghold of the Inca Empire, at about 7am after an overnight bus from Arequipa. We had taken a Cama bus which wa...

INCA TRAIL   Day 1   The night befoe the Inca trail we had a briefing at the agency (Andean Life) to meet our tour guide jimmy and th...

We didn't know much about the Colca Canyon when we arrived in Arequipa, but we quickly got chatting tp some other travellers who had recently done ...

Arequipa, a beautiful city to say the least and easily the best city we´ve been to in Peru so far. We arrived at around 7am after an overnight bus...

We arrived in Nazca via the ´chicken bus´ (in contrast to the express bus) from Ica. The bus stopped about 20 million times along the w...

The bus from Lima dropped us in Ica, which is about 10mins cab ride from Haucachina. In Ica thay have these little 3 wheeled taxi that take you aro...

We got to Lima, Peru two days earlier than expected. We were originally intending to fly into Lima on the 1st May, however between the 1st being a ...

Back in the big smoke Santiago, and it continually living up to its reputation as the smoggiest city in South America. For the second time we don't...

The bus trip from San Martin (Argentina) to Pucon (Chile) was supposed to take 3-4hrs. I think we managed to fall on a day where all the really slo...

San Martin was a nice little town, very neat and not many dogs compared to the rest of the towns. We scored a room with cable TV and were abso...

Bariloche is a pretty big town in Argentina about 5 hours by bus from Puerto Montt. It is a majorly touristy town and is commonly known as one of&n...

El Bolson is a smallish town south of Bariloche. We decided to come here as the weather was shizen at Bariloche and hoped we get a break from the r...

Puerto Montt is the end of the line for the Navimag trip. The boat stops for half a day while to unloads cargo and passengers, reloads and heads ba...

We arrived in Puerto Natales from El Calafate the night before the cruise and checked in nice and early at the Navimag office. The lovely people ha...

El  Calafate is a small but very touristy town which is only 80km from the very famous Moreno Glacier (which was the main reason for crossing ...

We arrived a Puerto Natales, which is essentially a launchig point for trekers to get to the Torres del Paine National Park. After a thrilling bus...

The flight from Santiago was spectacular (see photos). We could see the snow capped mountains of the Andes and even glaciers! It certainly made the...

Santiago was our first stop outside Australia. We almost missed all our connecting flights when sydney interntaional airport lost power and we were...