Blogs from Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, South America - page 4

Hola querida familia y amigos! Por fin estamos de vuelta! Hace unos días que salimos de Samaipata (Santa Cruz-Bolivia), desde ahí nos dirigimos hacia las Misiones Jesuitas las cuales son una preciosidad y el paisaje que rodea los pueblos donde se encuentran las iglesias es impresionante. Desde Santa Cruz hacia el norte y en dirección a Brasil se encuentra el Pantanal, una zona boscosa y pantanosa con una cantidad increíble de aves que se divisan fácilmente desde el autobús. Cerca de la frontera Bolivia-Brasil tuvimos la oportunidad de ver tucanes, búhos, garzas, loros y otras muchas aves de las cuales desconocemos el nombre. Tan solo íbamos en un taxi de camino a un pueblo fronterizo, aplastados como sardinas en lata y pudimos ver tanto..... Ahora estamos en Brasil en un pueblo que se llama Bonito, está ... read more

The Pantanal, one of those things that I am glad I did, but will never do again. The pantanal is a swampy area full of animals and lots of insects. We decided to do a three-day two-night tour. The first day it took us a while to get out there and we didn’t arrive until dinnertime. When we got close to arriving we learned that the pantanal has been flooding and we had to take a boat to our campsite. This consisted of fitting ten people in a tiny boat and having a guide try to push us through the water. When we finally arrived on our island we had dinner then went out for our first adventure, a night boat ride. During this ride we saw many different kinds of animals including alligators, or caimans ... read more

I woke at 630 am the next day and left at 7 with Katie (Sam wasn’t feeling so hot, so decided have a rest day) in private car to Rio de Prata about an hour away from Bonito. The welcome site were some wooden clad buildings set in beautiful gardens where there were green parrots everywhere feeding on the bread and milk that had been put out for them. We got into our summer wet suits and got our snorkels then took a ride along a dirt road and then a 2km walk through forest to the ‘starter pool’ . The wet suits were good protection from the mosquitoes but got very hot as we walked the 2 km. The river Prata that we were to be snorkeling down had a natural current from the springs ... read more

We got into Bonito too late to do much on the first night. So after purchasing some new thongs and buying some water we headed back to the hostel for an early night. It turns out that this was our first alcohol free day of the trip. Probably my first day not having a beer in quite a while. Damn England. Once we managed to drag our assess out of bed we were determined to get the most out of Bonito. So we headed downtown to one of the many tourist offices to see what we could book for the day. It turns out that we couldn't book too much but the biggest problem was that anything we wanted to book costs and arm and a leg. Since being in Brazil I've been surprised by the ... read more

Hi Everyone!!! Wow, it sure has been a while since we wrote anything, and this blog is more then a month behind, considering we left Rio a month ago. We have been in a lot of places without internet, and i have been a very sick little cookie so havent been up to staring at a computer screen to write out long essays. Sooo, to pick up where we left off. After Rio Hayden and I hopped on a 24 hour bus to head inland of Brazil to Campo Grande. There was not much to do here, but it is the gateway to The Pantanal - a large wildlife/jungle-type area where you are supposed to be able to see caymans, anacondas, jaguars, piranhas, etc etc. Hayden and I were really looking forward to this part, we ... read more