Blogs from Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, South America - page 12

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

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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 nice. There is absolutely nothing Grande about this dump. We have just spent the afternoon sitting outside of our hostel, directly opposite the bus station, watching the pickpockets eyeing up victims and lady boys parading ... read more

Now in Campo Grande after 5 excellent days in Rio. We arrived in Rio last Thursday after being run out of town in New York due to Lucys diplomacy. An interesting guided tour around the Lower East Side Tenement museum turned nasty when the camp dwarf who was guiding us innocently asked "When the men lost their jobs during the Great Depression, how do you think the wives helped the families get by?" There was silence amongst the group of the other 12 or so all-American tour group as they thought proudly about what their ancestors would have done in this situation - making clothes, perhaps just making the money spread further. The thoughtful silence was harshly broken by Lucy suggesting loudly "Prostitution!". Rio was great fun, we stayed at Ipanema and managed to hit the ... read more

Today Rhian (who was now feeling much better after the food poisoning) Kim and Gill decided to go back to the rio prata lodge and do the snorkelling trip they didn´t do on the day before, it was exactly the same with the guide Nau who was lovely with kim and very reassuring, he still seemed to think that kims problem was that she couldn´t swim though, not just that she was scared of putting her head in the water! Tim, Nic, Jo and me had to get up ridiculously early as we were picked up at 6am by Paulo and taken to the cave where we would be abseiling. we went for training the night before to check we were able to do it, and also went to get fitted for a wetsuit, which were ... read more