Hello from civilization of sorts, Just returned from our 3 day expidition into the heart of the Pantenal. Looked fabulous in the guide book and strangely the guy who sold us the trip told us much the same story. Having spent a night too long in Campo Grande ( ie one night ) I was looking forward to our big adventure in the wilderness. We met the other characters in our group and thankfully they all had English as a first language which saves the polite stilted conversations about random countries I´m never going to visit. The camp was interesting, basically [View Full Entry]

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Foz to Campo Grande on a bus, deep joy. Very interesting trip from the spectacular waterfalls at Foz Do Iguacu on an overnight bus to Campo Grande. A bus picked us up, took us about 2 hours away and left us at a strange roadhouse where they served a fantastic buffet for pennies. All was well until the bus cleared off and the place filled with strange looking locals. Fortunately our fellow passengers looked unperturbed and so we did like the romans. A different bus did return to get us eventually and I got to watch ´Flubber´ in Portuguese which was [View Full Entry]

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Hello all! Wonders will never cease and thanks to Mike Essex I´ve only gone and managed to set up a real honest to goodness Blog to give me a forum to bore you with and probably rant on. If you´re reading this then you are probably very bored at work so I´ll try not to rub it in too much that I´m not. Well Rio turned out to be a bit of a washout as I think I´ve already moaned about and so we´ve left the coast and set off inland. The place is enormous and the main mode of getting [View Full Entry]

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