Blogs from Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, South America - page 2

Arrived this morning in Campo Grande after long, cold overnight bus journey - not as good as Argentina, but OK. Assumed Campo Grande was the last stop - which it wasn't so we were still sitting on the bus when our bags were already off and sitting on the pavement, Atsuko was still asleep - putain !!! weather is now getting warm - high 20s in the day and much warmer in the sun. Tomorrow we're heading into the Pantanal for 3 days. Organised the tour through the hostel, should be hiking, piranha fishing, horse riding, and lots of wild animal watching. We took the option of camping so plenty of mosquito repellent to hand. Expect to have more huge steaks and chorizo sausages for dinner tonight - Brazilian portions are the same size as Argentinian ... read more

Hey Guys, Well we arrived in Campo Grande @ 7am and we´re booked for a 4 day Amazon Jungle excursion in the Pantanal by 9am so pretty productive morning to say the least! We can´t take all the credit since we were mobbed at the bus station, but we choose to go with the Hostelling International guys since the took us to there hostel gave us breakfast, let us use a room for an hour to shower after a long night on the bus so we were impressed. So at 10 we jump in the van for the 5hr ride into the Pantanal, once we arrived at our lodge we pretty much just hung out since it was late and waited for dinner. The Pantanal is the southern edge of the Amazon jungle and is the ... read more

So having left Rio without managing to see any of the major sights, although neither of us would have changed our time there for the world, we headed off the Campo Grande from where we were hoping to arrange a tour to the Pantanal, which are the largest wetlands on earth, not far off the same size as Great Britain! Our original plan was to try and do them on our own, making it a lot cheaper in the process, but we felt that we must keep moving and so figured for the time saved a tour was probably worth it. On arrival in Campo Grande, a large town at the edge of the Pantanal, we quickly found a tour, one that had previously been recommened to us, which included one night in the hostel there ... read more

We are in Campo Grande, the capital of Matto Grosso do Sul. it is a city in a sort of bland lowland area, surrounded by cattle ranches and has a distinct wild west feel about it. lots of cowboy boots and john wayne wannabe´s! Got really over-excited because we read in the guidebook that there is a museum, called museo dom busco, that is mainly taxidermy animals, 10,000 insects and butterflies etc. So we got up early especially to find this place, wondering the streets in the heat for hours... only to find that the damn place is moving location. thats bad timing! On the topic of animals... we found the most amazing shop, Planeta. from the outside it looked like woolies but as we moved into the depths we heard the noise of a waterfall... ... read more

Chegou o passaporte com o visto!!! Chegou também os formulários médicos!!! ... Já está quase tdo arrumado!!!Amanhã fecharei a mala elevarei pra pesar!!! Afinal não quero pagar excesso de bagagem!!!! ... Fomos até a Tam e acabei encontrandoi uma colega minha que trabalha lá!!! Ela disse que não tem como trocar o bilhete, iamos então comprar outra, mas ela nos recomendou que fossemos mais cedo ao aeroporto no dia do embarque que conseguiremos antecipar o embarque!!! melhor neh!!! ela olhou no sistema e disse que ainda tem muitos assentos, mas pra garantir vamos confirmar a quantidade de assentos disponíveis na quinta-feira!!! Estou terminando de imprimir os últimos documentos e as apostilas!!! ... Agora já configurei o blog e adicionei o e-mail de todo mundo, assim sempre que eu atualizar todos receberão notícias minhas!!! Não deixem de ... read more