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Boa Vista
Travel Blogs from Boa Vista, Brazil
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Dull town blues.
This is a top pick! I have seen some wonderful places on this trip, but also a handful of ordinary ones, amongst them several dull cities. Boa Vista in northern Brazil is definitively one of them, so it's kind of funny that I am back here for the third time in less than a ...
Staying in a coconut plantation of course!
This is a top pick! Leave our bush camp and continue south where scenery progressively more rainforesty. Lots of flooded fields and very wide rivers and trees which just go on for miles. There are intermittent gaps in the trees where there are huge lakes with dead tree ...
Reunited with DC3
This is a top pick! ... and were ready to head north again after only four days of arriving in Manaus. Although not really intending to cover the 800 km to Boa Vista in one day, there didn't appear to be anywhere suitable to stop, so we just kept going for twelve hours. The road ...
Amérique du Sud / South America
... façon je prévois toujours de retourner au Pérou un jour ou l'autre. Quelqu'un intéressé à m'accompagner? Finalement nous arrivons à Boa Vista. Que la fête commence! Pourquoi? Et bien... On m'a dit, avant que je ne quitte le Canada, qu'il ...
Big skies and Amerindian reservations
... ) pulled into Boa Vista at first light, and headed off to find some basic digs for the night. From all accounts, Boa Vista is a quiet, unattractive place with little to attract the casual traveller, but it was a convenient stopover before heading into ...
Venezuela to Brazil (Boa Vista)
... Boa Vista was full!! Nothing till tomorrow!!! I went searching for a bus to Santa Elena (the border crossing point- 4 hours from Boa Vista), but all buses were full.Finally after an hour of searching I found a bus that left Ciudad Bolívar at ...
Au Brésil / Across Brazil
... . He usually flies Tucanos, but being the only one speaking English he's been assigned to us for the duration of our trip across Brazil. Adalberto is very helpful and we probably won't need to fake a mechanical problem to stay here. Oooops did I just say ...
Reportaz z plavby/ Amazon Cruise
Rivers are the roads of Amazonia. It is not a cruise teritory but merely means of transport from place to place. Boats pass the Amazon River with cargo and people. They go from port to port, loading and unloading cargo, slowly hauling around their ...
roraima is great
went north from Manaus across the equator into the northern hemisphere again off to Boa Vista, the capital of another unexplored state in Brazil. i met tobias and his family here and his sister took me out to a cool nightclub and the next day we went out ...
Boa?
... seems they go in for it in a big way here, It's an easy city to leave behind, and quickly we're heading north toward Boa Vista. Like others before, we thought for sure there'd be a nice little place to park for the night and so avoid driving 800k in one ...
The Life Of Brian
Arrived at Boa Vista 14:30 Here all about how I spent 4 hours at the bus station trying to be converted to Jesus by Brian the American Evangelist. Coming soon............. Bus to Manaus (sat next to Brian) 17:30 80.50 ...
towards Boa Vista
After a good night at our parking stop we set of towards the town, by now the scenery has changed to very flat ground with lots of low scrublands. Still with lots of different birds though. On arrival at the town it was the usual story of very few road ...
Work,Work and Painting, Our 2nd Month In Sta Elena
Our second month in Santa Elena went well, and mighty quickly. I spent most of the time working on a new website for the foundation. Not exactly typical 3rd world volunteering perhaps, but it was the pet project of the foundation's director, and I thus ...
At Border
... organised in that once across the bridge there is another bridge over one carriageway because we have to swap the driving position; Brazil is on the right and Guyana is on the left. Eventually we came to the last barricade, manned by Brazilian soldiers, ...
1 night 2 days great trek up Serra Grande
... experience was worth all the effort. Francisco was a great guide and will do very well with Helio in the business. We have been very impressed with our good fortune at spending the additional time in Boa Vista and highly reccommend this very cool ...
Boa Vista
... kijken hier streng toe. Ook alle bagage wordt hier door een scanner gehaald, zoals het hoort.) We krijgen een voormalige luxebus naar Boa Vista, vanwaar we dezelfde dag nog met een nachtbus verder kunnen naar Manaus. Om 20h15 is het zover. De bus van ...
Week 24 - Merida (Ven) to Boa Vista (Brazil)
... whole pack and re pack it..took 20 minutes). Eventually I arrived in Santa Elena. Jan 16th - Santa Elena (Venezuela) to Boa Vista (Brazil) At 6.30am I walked into town and got a shared taxi to the border ($2.50). While I was waiting for the ...
Bonita Brazil
... thing here is that people do seem to understand a little english whereas Venzuela is solo Espanol and without it you are stuffed. Boa Vista is a great little town and we are thrilled to be here. People are friendly and the place is cleaner and ...
Eu nâo falo portuges
Made it to Brazil in one piece. Don~t speak the language and i feel pretty stupid about it. ...
Try Couchsurfing - check!
... bought he had second thoughts, "maybe the bus wouldn't have been so bad..." Ggrrrr!! Anyway, because we ha to stay a night in Boa Vista I suggested we try Couchsurfing. This is a website that allows you to ask people can you stay in their house while you ...
Waiting in Boa Vista
... and no town anywhere nearby, so people started hitching a ride in both directions - those hitching to the north, eventually reached Boa Vista. But I couldn't go anywhere, even though I had been offered a ride with the post office truck at 16:00 but but ...
Manaus to Cuidad Bolivar - the road less travelled
... bus and not on the cold floor of Boa Vista bus station, waiting for our 07.30 departure to C.Bolivar. As a matter of interest, Boa Vista bus station is quite a modern setup compared to some bus stations, all tiles and glass, and a 24 hour security guard ...
from Doris
The trip has been great Today we put up walls poured concreat and had pineapple upside down cake. The people here are so kind and thoughtfull. They bring us drinks and coffee while we are working. I have met the Pres. of the Womens group, and many others ...
La Nina- herzlichen Dank.
Gerade bin ich etwas traurig- habe heute mittag Henrik und Steffi meine beiden Mitbewohner zum Flughafen gebracht- die fahren nach Deutschland zurück und ich bin jetzt allein mit den Katzen im Haus. Ach man, das ist echt schade! Wir hatten soviel ...
Hoher Besuch
... Brot, Marzipankartoffeln und das GPS-Gerät für mein Projekt mitgebracht. Gestern abend wurde noch schön Bier am Pool im Nobelhotel in Boa Vista getrunken und erzählt. Immer wieder Wahnsinn, was solche Leute erzählen können- z.B. von der Zeit als er ...
Zellstoffproblem
Mal kurzer Exkurs zum Zellstoffproblem hier in Brasilien. Erscheint lapidar, es beschäftigt mich jedoch sehr. Brasilianer haben ein Problem mit Produktion und Gebrauch praktikabler Zellstoffprodukte. Und zwar auf allen Ebenen: 1. das Klopapier löst ...
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