Boats and Buses

One of the most prominent aspects of this journey is travel, and with around 14,000 miles to cover my time on trains, buses and boats will be plentiful. As I write this post I'm 14 hours through a 16 hour bus journey, but we'll return to that shortly.

The morning came to leave Ilhe Grande and in the hot sun the return ferry took place over the speedboat. This took much longer, but with a guitar to play and the morning sunshine a fitting way to leave such a wonderful place. We (myself and five norwegian girls) soon transferred our shit onto the bus and settled into an uneventful 7.5 hour bus journey.

We arrived in Sao Paulo (referred to as 'Sampa' by the locals) late that evening and transferred to a hostel in a supposedly nice area of the city. The hostel was very nice, however the surrounding area was riddled with beggars, prostitutes and other nocturnal creatures and a short walk for some food was more than enough exploration. After a day of washing, internet and necessary provision acquisition we would be leaving on the nightbus to Foz de Iguassu (the Iguassu Falls) in the far south of Brazil on the border with Argentina.