Rio de Janeiro, Brazil With this year’s Rio carnival expected to be the biggest yet and the city gearing up to host the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016, this year may be the perfect time to visit Rio. This vibrant party city was recently claimed by MasterCard to be the world’s …
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Leishmaniasis From Ilha Grande, Brazil – My Experience
My wife and I had been travelling for a total of 2 years in some pretty remote places which included the Amazon Rainforest, jungle of Borneo, Outback Australia and “off the tourist route” parts of Bolivia, Peru and Argentina. We had met some fabulous people and experienced things that we will never forget. All this …
The Paraguyan Border Jigsaw – Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil
When backpackers draw up a list of ‘must sees’ on their South American trip there’s a good chance Paraguay isn’t on it. I’ll be honest it wasn’t on mine. But it felt rude not to take a squizz at the landlocked nation considering we were only a few hundred metres away in neighbouring Brazil. Like …