It was time for our last few days on this 175 days long adventure and we were definitely ready to spend the last days on our trip soaking in the sun on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro! The coastal city did not disappoint and we had a fantastic finish to 175 days of traveling around the globe. We ended up at the Crab House hostel close to Ipanema Beach and woke up the next morning with blue skies and [...]
I studied together with Paola at the Technical University in Munich and as she was Brazilian she quickly invited Eli and me to come visit her! As Paola was one of the people that I got to know the best in Germany I was really looking forward to getting to see her again. It was time to stay in a proper house with homemade food again! Woho! I first of all have to apologize for how much time it took [...]
Crossing over to the Brazilian side was both easier and harder than we expected. We found a bus that was heading to Foz do Iguaçu which is the city closes to the Brazilian side of the Iguazu Falls. This was no problem at all and we booked our ticket and got on the bus. The thing was that when we started approaching the border the bus just drove straight through and continued into Brazil without stopping! We were as of [...]
Iguazu Falls was along with Angkor Wat and Taj Mahal one of the sights that we had decided on in advance to make sure that we ended up getting to see them. Iguazu Falls is the second largest waterfall in the world after Victoria Falls in Southern Africa, but due to a more dispersed location of the falls it is possible to get a more immersible experience of the gigantic waterfalls compared to the large curtain of water that is [...]
There is no denying it, Argentina rocks when it comes to bus transport. There is nobody even close to touching their spot on the throne of bus transportation. Why do you ask yourself? What do they have that the regular Norwegian bus company doesn’t? A whole damn lot if you ask me! Read on to see what your local bus company should be offering you on your next trip back home to ma and pa.
