A tour of the Pantanal with Ecological Expeditions

We arrived in Campo Grande in the morning sometime, it was about 6 days ago now and mid morning is about as one time as the buses get in Brazil and undoubtedly the rest of South America. Anyway, the bus station at Campo Grande has recently moved to a site some 13 kilometers out of town, this through us to begin with. We found some help from the hostel who we had booked, from what I can gather they where busy prowling for business at the bus station. They kindly offered to take us to their hostel, did I mention we had booked it and had email conversation with them…

On arrival they had no information about the booking we had made with them through hostel Booker’s. Anyways they knocked ten reals off the bill so we where happy for the moment. I should mention at this point that we met Nic am Olly, a couple from London travelling for 3 A tour of the Pantanal with Ecological Expeditions

Around the World Blog Carnival #1

Welcome to the first edition of my Round the world blog carnival.

Matt has some light reading to start you off, Aparnetly there are 8 types of backpacker, What type of backpacker are you?

Katie Sorene presents 25 Signs that You’re a True Citizen of the World | Travel Blog – Tripbase posted at Travel Blog – Tripbase.

Countries

Liz Wright presents Travelogged: The Best Views in Istanbul posted at Travelogged, saying, “This isn’t from a RTW trip, but it’s good advice for if you’re stopping in Istanbul on your way around the world.” One word about the pictures, WOW!

Chris presents The Tricycle Diaries – an Idea becomes Reality posted at nomad4ever. A journey through bali, what a way to explore a country.

One Family presents Cancun Trip Report posted at One Family’s Blog, saying, “A frugal family trip report to Cancun, Mexico.” This blog has some fantastic Around the World Blog Carnival #1

Saving to Travel Around The World

These are my first thoughts on saving money to travel around the world. I have given this some thought after looking at a couple of other blogs for tips about saving, there are so many which talk through ways to save money with coupons etc. There are not so many which talk about not spending money, not impulse buying and only buy what you cant live without.

Saving involves not spending

Savings with Sadie has some interesting money saving tips for you Americans out there. How I save money has some great tips on budgeting and saving long term which is also well worth a read. Fantastic, we learn how to save money when we go out and buy our groceries, toiletries and every thing else we need. For me what so many of these blogs do not address are the impulses that we have (apologies if I have Saving to Travel Around The World