AFTER yet another delayed flight and waiting around for three hours at yet another Bolivian airport, we finally made it to Sucre, the state capital. The flight was just 30 […]

HAVING gotten our exit stamp from Brazil we walked 100 metres to the Bolivian border. Trying to walk separately from us, our peruvian guide, Hernan warned us officers at the […]

HAVING experienced its worst ever flooding, acres and acres of the Pantanal were underwater when we arrived. While it is used to some seasonal flooding, the area of natural wetland […]

WELCOME to beautiful translates the road sign as we enter the next town on our itinerary – Bonito. This tourist town is a small oasis close to the Brazil and […]

OUR visit to Paraguay was short and sweet. While it gave me two days to practice my Spanish, it was purely added to the itinerary because it is the quickest […]

THE visit to Iguazu was one of the main things I was looking forward to most on the trip.But even I didn’t understand just how amazing it would be until […]

Parati We were in Parati, a coastal pirate town, for two days. Famous for its beautiful beaches, ports and fishing I would never have known about this place if it […]

Five days in Rio went very quick. Too quick…. I had spent the time getting to know other people on my tour and others who had just finished similar tours […]

Samba bands lead the street parties I had heard so much about Rio Carnival but you don’t realise how crazy it really it is until you experience it. For four […]

To some people my South America trip doesn’t seem like such a massive deal. People take gap years or career breaks all the time and they go for six months […]