SAMIPATA & SUCRE, BOLIVIA
15 – 19th November The road from Santa Cruz to Samaipata winds steadily up into the cool, green foothills of the Andes, trading the heat of the lowlands for misty curves, dense cloud forest, and sudden viewpoints that made us pull over just to breathe it all in. SAMIPATA Samaipata is a relaxed, bohemian little […]
SANTA CRUZ, BOLIVIA
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia’s largest and most modern city, sits low in the tropical plains of the eastern lowlands—a world apart from the chilly Andean altiplano most travellers picture when they think of Bolivia. Founded by the Spanish in 1561 and later relocated to its current spot after repeated Indigenous resistance, Santa Cruz […]
BRAZIL TO BOLIVIA
5th November 2025. Corumbá, I’m sure, is a lovely town—of the little we saw. Leaving the river around 4 p.m., we made our way to a laundromat and then to a truck stop for the night, marked on iOverlander as a good spot before crossing into Bolivia. Before leaving Brazil, we tried to fill the […]
CRUISING THE PARAGUAY RIVER
The Cuiabá & Paraguay river is the next leg of our journey. Short and sweet. We’ll board a cattle barge & slowly motor downstream from Porto Jofre to Corumbá. A 40 hour cruise over 100+ km of snaking, water that will slowly take us back to civilization. Crack of Dawn 3 & 4 November. The […]
Five iPhones, Seven Jaguars, and One Gin & Tonic
29 & 30 October. On the heels of yesterday’s high on the river, today was meant to be a quiet one — time to re-organize, do a bit of schoolwork, and catch up on admin. I don’t think I mentioned my little Apple fumble? A couple of months back when I ordered an iPhone and Pencil […]
Brazil’s Magnificent Jaguars
28 October. By 7 a.m. we’re up, fed, and loaded into the boat, ready for a full day in search of jaguars. The river is perfectly calm; the cool morning air is delicious, skimming over the milky brown water we ask ourselves again in sheer amazement “Where are we?!” Remote? Very. We are about as […]
The wild pantanal
THE Transpantenaria 26 October – 2 November. After weeks of tackling Brazil’s rough backroads, we thought we’d take on one more. The Transpantaneira, different and unique in its own way. This drive was also on our bucket list, a region we’d been looking forwards to exploring ever since first reading about it. From the small […]
Goias
Leaving Brasilia Leaving Brasília’s cooler climate, we soon found ourselves travelling through changing terrain once more. The endless flatlands of croplands gave way to rolling green hills and farmlands. Big machinery groomed the earth into perfect rows of cotton, soy, and corn ready to plant after the first rains. Harvest done — cotton bales are […]