Blogs from Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, South America - page 7

The Pantanal Ok, so I'm having trouble with photo uploading again. Which is a shame as I have a few great animal photos. I'll try again soon. Our last day of driving to the Pantanal involved a couple of interesting moments. We had to change a tyre on the way, only to see one of the Budget overland trucks fly past. This was slightly annoying until we got onto the dirt road into the Pantanal. It hadn't rained for a while so this road was extremely bumpy as all the previous bumps caused by rain plus trucks had hardened. It made for an interesting ride, especially for those on the back seat. We'd been over a few small bridges which were just made of very rickety looking wood with no sides. We reached the big long ... read more

In Bonito bin ich deswegen gelandet, weil Ricardos Schwester dort Urlaub gemacht hat, und mich die Photos doch ganz schoen beeindruckt haben. In Bonito an sich gibt es ziemlich wenig zu sehen, es gibt nur eine einzige Strasse voller Poussadas und Reisebueros. Wenige Kilometer entfernt gibt es aber einen Haufen touristische Attraktionen. Da ich alleine bin muss ich immer Motorradtaxis zu den einzelnen Orten nehmen - ueber die orangenen Strassen durch's gruene Pantanal... Interessante Leute habe ich in Bonito eigentlich nicht getroffen. Ein nettes franzoesisches Paerchen und ein paar englischsprachige Touristen. Das war's aber auch schon. Trotzem: meine Poussade ist recht preisguenstig und wenn man nicht viel unternehmen will, ist Bonito ein guter Ort um sich etwas zu entspannen. Auch ist hier im Gegensatz zu den meisten Brasilianischen Touristenorten alles hervorragend or... read more

On a lucky buy (flash sale) from the local TAM airlines, I was able to get tickets to the city of Campo Grande for about 20% of the regular prices (which still came to about 300 bucks, but...). My good friends Marcelo and Genesis (no that is not his real name), jumped on the opportunity along with me. Already on the flight, the party began. We had like 5 inflight beer each, and it was like the good old days. Just being silly teenagers again. We arrived in Campo Grande, and took out our rental car. We were spending the night there, and driving the 200kms to Bonito in the early morning. Did some grocery shopping to save restaurant money, and off we went. 200kms of the straightest road I have ever seen. The pastures here ... read more

ok, so we´ve left Brazil now and were in Bolivia, but hopefully we´ll be able to get up to date with what we´ve got up to so far!! and i´ll start with the snorkelling we mentioned at the end of the last blog. After arriving in Bonito, Bryan our guide then told us a bit about the town, it has only fairly recently started offering ecotrips to tourists, the town itself has no attractions other than the natural resources of the area, and it has only been recently that the people of Bonito realised that people are interested in taking ecotrips such as snorkeling, abseiling and horseriding. As a group we decided that we would go to a ranch that was near the Prata river that offered snorkelling trips and horseriding, and would possibly abseil tomorrow. ... read more

Ok, so it's been a week since we left Bonito but this is the first chance we´ve had to write about it (see next entry). Spent a couple of beautiful hot days here, a bike ride to an artificial beach, which included volleyball courts in and out of the water, a "Flying Fox" hang-slide into the lake, a trampoline, and huge fish surrounding you as you wade through the shallow end! The next day was spent snorkelling, unfortunately we have no photos other than us in our wetsuits (very flattering!), but it was amazing. The waters were absolutely crystal clear, and in fact we weren´t allowed to touch the bottom as disturbing the limestone would dirty the water. The fish were beautiful, colourful, and unperturbed by us floating silently above them watching their every move. One ... read more