I’ve spent the last five days just wandering around staring at things with my mouth wide open. We arrived by plane on Sunday evening and after a bus-boat-bus journey we got to the main town of Santa Cruz. After finding a cheap place to stay and grabbing some dinner we went to a tour agency…
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Quito
Quito, Ecuador is the higest official capital city in the world at 2,850m. The flight in from Colombia brought us over some awesome mountains and we landed on a runway enclosed by ravines. We arrived on Saturday evening and took a quick stroll around the historical centre. There are lots of gorgeous buildings but not…
Colombian Coast – Santa Marta, Taganga, Tayrona, Cartagena
On Monday we flew from Medellin to Santa Marta and grabbed a cab to our hostel, Villana which turned out to be one of the nicest hostels I’ve stayed in. Beautiful, clean, sturdy bunkbeds in the dorms, air con, bean bags and a small pool beside the bar. We headed straight out for dinner at…
Medellin
I’ve just spent five nights at the Black Sheep Hostel in Medellin which has been great. We arrived late last Wednesday night and on Thursday morning Harry, my neighbour from home, arrived having already spent five weeks in Colombia. Thursday was definitely a food day. After a very delicious breakfast in Al Alma beside our…
Bogotá
24 hours in any city isn’t enough to do it justice but having heard amazing things about other areas of Colombia that’s all we could justify dedicating to Bogotá. Laura and Barry, an Irish couple we met in Brazil both teach there and were kind enough to let us stay with them. They live in…
Rio de Janeiro
We arrived to Rio from Ilha Grande last Wednesday afternoon and were all pretty sad about leaving that gorgeous island. We were staying in an AirBnb between Ipanema and Copacabana beaches and after dropping our bags went for a wander down the Ipanema main street. It was already obvious that this city had a good…
Ilha Grande
I’ve just spent one week on Ilha Grande, a paradise-esque island off the Brazilian coast just south of Rio. The island only has one road, hardly any vehicles and no ATM. The most populated area of the island is Vila do Abraão and from there the best beaches are a hike or a boat ride…
Paraty
On Saturday we took a 12 hour overnight bus from Florianópolis to Sao Paulo which was freezing so not a great sleep was had. In Brazil so far we haven’t been given any food on the buses like in Argentina and Uruguay. Instead they stop at services every three or four hours for about 30…
Florianópolis
Florianópolis in Brazil is hands down the most beautiful place I’ve visited so far. It’s an island accessible by bridge littered with beautiful beaches and foliage covered hills. We arrived Thursday afternoon with Laura and Barry, an Irish couple who had been sitting beside us on the bus from Uruguay. We spent the first…
Getting from Chuy, Uruguay to Florianopolis, Brasil
As we wanted to see the coast of Uruguay before going to Florianopolis it would have been crazy to travel back to Montevideo to catch the bus so we tried to find a way to get from the border town Chuy instead. A direct bus was out of the question as they only go twice…
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