🚗 Trip

All the images on this page were created from our “master map” created using Google custom maps. We update this manually, every evening or when we’re able to get to WiFi!

Before we started the “big trip” we did some short journeys near João Pessoa, in Brazil’s northeast.

• Pedra da boca
• Projeto peixe-boi
• Surf, seahorses and rockets

The Northeast

We left João Pessoa on March 16th, heading first into the interior of the northeast, then returning to the coast at Maceió.

• Ancient rocks and famous goats
• Lajedo de Pai Mateus
• Catimbau national park
• Geo-engineering in the northeast

Coast & Chapada

After Maceió we headed south to Salvador, and then inland to Chapada Diamantina national park, arriving on March 31st.

• Penedo
• A brief visit to Sergipe
• The green line
• Hosts & hitchhikers
• Salvador, the city on the bay
• Hard choices
• Chapada Diamantina
  • Lençóis
    • Part 1 – In town
    • Part 2 – Nearby
  • Vale do Capão
  • Ibicoara

Minas Gerais

We continued south on April 13th, into the historic cities of Minas Gerais.

• Long roads, big trucks, and alcohol
• Diamantina
• Belo Horizonte
• Dashcam’s greatest hits
• Swim with John Cage at Inhotim
• Pulling teeth
• The twelve prophets
• Black gold
• Raising the flags

Big Cities, and Amazonas

Before returning to the sea, and Brazil’s giant cities, on April 27th. From Rio we took a 10-day detour up north to Manaus, in Amazonas.

• Race to the sea
• Rio de Janeiro
  • Part 1 – Downtown
  • Part 2 – Sea and Stars
• Manaus
  • Part 1 – City in the jungle
  • Part 2 – The Amazon rainforest
  • Part 3 – The river sea
• What I saw, and what we will see
• A bit of Finland, in Brazil
• Concrete jungle

Inland to Paraguay

After leaving São Paulo on June 9th we briefly went back to the coast before heading way, way inland, to the Iguazu Falls, and to Paraguay.

• Chilly camping at Barra do Una
• Curitiba – winter is here
• The forgotten state of Iguaçu
• Walls of water
• Paraguay
  • Part 1 – Welcome to Paraguay
  • Part 2 – Asunción
  • Part 3 – Villarica
  • Part 4 – Encarnacion
• Three nations in 24 hours

South to Uruguay

Returning to Brazil on June 26th, we travelled through huge canyons in Rio Grande do Sul, before crossing into Uruguay, and finally reaching Buenos Aires on July 20th.

• Rio Grande do Sul
  • Part 1 – Passo Fundo & Monte Negro
  • Part 2 – Twisty roads
  • Part 3 – Germany
  • Part 4 – Porto Alegre
  • Part 5 – The end of Brazil
• The devil’s playground
• Climbing the cathedral
• Punta del Este
• Broken dreams
• Colonia
• Fray Bentos

More to come!