Author Archives: Bear and Jackie

A sun kissed paradise island in the Caribbean Sea. All we had to do was hop onto a flight from Bogota, 4 hours to Cancun, breeze through customs and immigration, transfer to Cancun then whizz across town to the port … Continue reading →

Bears Birthday a day early in Copacabana at the infamous Churrascharia Palace before heading off the next day to Bogota on his actual birthday. Colombia for us,  was just a stop off point on our way to Mexico.   We … Continue reading →

Two countries, two languages and one slightly large set of waterfalls with a border in the middle. We stayed in Iguacu on the Brazilian side of the falls so started off there. The roar of crashing water assaults you long … Continue reading →

Still slightly shocked at our participation throughout the 10 days of Carnival it was finally time to put the mankini away (and burn it!!) and head west towards Iguana Falls.  The distances are huge, we are talking over 1500km by … Continue reading →

We needed to be in Rio on 8 February for carnival! Shouldn’t be too hard getting from Quito in Ecuador? Not at all, around six days by bus! We are no strangers to long bus rides but 6 days is … Continue reading →

HA HA!!! We appear to have arrived just before carnival! Somehow a crazy mate from Melbourne made the same error… And then the heat got to us! Let’s grab some outfits and go out to play! Most photos not suitable … Continue reading →

Heard of it? No! Neither had we! Home now to awesome ex Mounties Brian and Janette, they kindly showed us around. Starting with the Ecuator Pretty cool one foot North and one foot South! Turns out that North means left … Continue reading →

Seven hours on a bus from Quito, two more in a minibus, then two hours in a motorised canoe to reach Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve. Pure jungle, no Wifi, no phones. Heaven! Off to a local village one day to see … Continue reading →

  David Attenborough, eat your heart out. Spent an unbelievable 3 weeks on these beautiful Islands, enjoying our own personal wildlife documentary! Didn’t do the somewhat pricey cruise option and went DIY instead. We quashed the myth that the Galapagos … Continue reading →

Our 5 week stay in this crazy place is coming to an end. It more than served its purpose of providing us a cheap, relaxing place to stay over Xmas and New Year. New friends made, colossal amounts of fun … Continue reading →