April, 2016: While for many the Amazon conjures up images of an exotic wonderland teeming with wildlife, for me it’s more about spending time in an immense expanse of jungle bigger than most decent sized countries. After a fairly…
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April, 2016: Some of our favourite memories from South America came while exploring the north east, ‘desert’ coast of Brazil from Jericoacoara to Atins. From sand dune sunsets while looking over the Atlantic at Jericoacoara (Jeri to the locals)…
April, 2016: Between the mid 1500’s through to the late 1800’s Brazil was BIG on slave trading, consuming nearly 40% of all slaves sent to the new world. This horrendous blight on humanity inflicted untold misery on the approximately…
April, 2016: As we’ve said before, Brazil is BIG and it’s two most famous cities provide perfect if not in some cases contrasting examples of this. Both are BIG on urban sprawl and traffic jams filled with lung busting…
April, 2016: Unfortunately when most people think of visiting the cities of Brazil, Rio is top of the list. Sao Paulo doesn’t get a look in because it’s thought to be too big, too dirty and too dangerous. Thankfully…
March, 2016: The Pantanal in south west Brazil is a patchwork of untamed wilderness and massive cattle stations criss-crossed by countless piranha filled rivers. After a night of enthusiastic caipirinha drinking we took our leave of Londrina and kicked…
March, 2016: Brazil is BIG…in fact southern Brazil is probably bigger than most countries! For some foolhardy reason we thought that we could skip through it in a few weeks. In doing so, we thought we would be happy…
