It’s been a few weeks since we were in La Paz, Bolivia, and I promised I’d get Cal to write something about his Death Road experience.  In his own words, ladies and gentlemen, I give you Callum: The world’s most dangerous road was quite a day.  Downhill mountain biking is definitely something that some people … More Callum’s La Paz

Cusco.  We love this city.  It is so beautiful and a kind of “user-friendly” sorta place.  Admittedly, it is rather touristy but it’s big enough and full of real-life-living sort of people, that you sorta don’t mind all the shops that sell the exact same thing, the massage-sellers, the desperate “free” walking tour guides offering … More Cusco and the Amazing Machu Picchu

After La Paz we took a bus to a very touristy town of Copacabana, which sits on the edge of Lake Titicaca.  It was alright.  Kinda boring, to be honest.  Also a place full of steep hills to climb and feel ashamed halfway up because of how much I was panting.  Seriously.  I used to … More Copacabana, Bolivia Style

La Paz was full of hills and we certainly got our exercise there!  We stayed at a nicer sort of place but unfortunately, our room was on the fifth floor of a building without an elevator.  So, La Paz is 3650m high and my breath came in short gasps a lot, even though we were … More Rachel’s La Paz

In the southwest of Bolivia is a small town called Uyuni which is not the greatest of places in this writer’s humble opinion, but it is the place to go if you want to see salt.  Lots and lots of salt.  I mean, if that’s your kind of thing.  Salar de Uyuni is the largest … More Salty Business

We caught a very tiny plane from Santa Cruz to Sucre.  The plane ride was about half an hour while a bus from point to point would have taken upwards of 15 hours, and likely more due to the rainy season, floods and potential landslides.   The cost of the flight was not too expensive—only about … More Sucre History

Santa Cruz has been a rest stop kinda place for us.  We have done very little in the actual town besides eat, sleep, and get some laundry done.  However, we did go to Biocentro Guembe, a resort and park which has some beautiful grounds and gasp—a butterfly dome!  Anyone who knows me knows how much … More Jungle Walks

From Rio we took a bus back to São Paulo as our flight was booked to Foz do Iguacu from there later that day.  It was a long travel day and at the end of it I was a nasty, nasty version of myself.  Let’s just say, long travel days do Rachel no good, and … More A Natural Wonder of the World

Okay, so three days in Rio is flat out not enough.  What were we thinking?  Seriously.  You need about five or six good days there, we think.  A couple beach days, a couple tour days, a couple of shopping days, etc.  What we did was a squishy condensed version of that.  We arrived in the … More Salt & Sugar (Rio de Janeiro)

Nothing makes you feel more like a dunce than not having the ability to communicate.  In our last term of working as teachers, we downloaded the free language app Duolingo and tried to learn a bit of Spanish each night.  We knew that Brazil of course does not speak Spanish—they speak Portuguese.  Since we were … More Obrigado! (São Paulo & Paraty)