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Corumba Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Corumba, Brazil
Howlin´ good time in the Pantanal
This is a top pick! ... ." And here we were, looking a male howler monkey in the eye. Earlier that morning (Friday 10 February) we´d set off from Corumba, located by Brazil´s south-western border with Bolivia, on a four-day excursion to the Pantanal, a vast area of wetland ...
Entering Brazil again
This is a top pick! ... embassy though to inform them of this supposedly illegal practice. We are now spending the day in a suprisingly cold and rainy Corumba before going on a three-day, two-night excursion tomorrow to the Patanal, the world´s biggest wetlands. We will ...
The Pantanal
This is a top pick! ... , maned wolf, deer, anteaters, armadillos, monkeys and tapirs. It is also home to world´s biggest rodent, the capybara. We left Corumba sitting in the back of a sort of army truck shared with eight more people. The trip there took four hours and ...
The Pantanal
... we were a little late for the border crossing to Bolivia, so we stayed the night in a hotel near the centre of town. Corumba seems nice, it's seriously hot but there is a pretty plaza (small park in the cente of a block) with shady trees, statues ...
Pantanal
Aih Corumba! Gateway to the Pantanal. The best place in the whole of South America for wildlife. (The Amazon itself is actually not great, overpoached and generally very thick forest so viewing anything is actually very rare) Just one ginormous ...
The Pantanal Wetlands
On Wednesday morning, we left Hotel Santa Monica in Corumba and took a 3 hour drive to the Passo do Lontra lodge in the Pantanal. The Pantanal is a tropical wetland and the world's largest wetland of any kind, sprawling over an area estimated at between ...
Boating on the Rio Paraguay...
Here is the Brasilian Pantanal and Corumb'' is the innermost city of the area...."la Cidade Branca" was a very important port at the biginning og 19th century, and it is visible in the lowest part of the city: the ancient port on Rio Paraguay is really ...
Farewell Brazil- we loved you!
Corumba; border city notoriously dangerous and infamous for smugglers. It was a long ride from the Pantanal to Corumba, the border of Brazil and Bolivia. We were wiped out from the Pantanal. We took lots of rest and met some lovely English people and a ...
Move over Mr Attenbourough
... horses go into a canter which was very exhilarating, especially as we were riding one handed like the horses are trained in Brazil. Gained a fair few bruises in the process but no pain no gain. That evening we were relaxing in the hammocks outdoors ...
The Weird Brazilians (by KCT)
... , we took a bus to Corumba in order to cross the border to Bolivia. Yet, when we got to the bus terminal in Corumba around 6 pm, some Brazilian guys who wanted to offer us some hostels said that it wasn't possible anymore to get ...
Bienvenida a Bolivia (by KCT)
... to be normal on comparison to the Brazilians as they have their immigration office right at the border (see last story from Corumba). Yet, when we got our passports stamped, we found an Argentinean flag hanging in the Bolivian immigration office. What ...
Aye Corumba!
So the death train took as almost all the way to Brazil. Sounds worse than it was... found out was called the death train cause locals used to jump on top to ride for free, and often fell off, to their grizzly deaths... as you would, as it was by far the ...
Corumba
The rain last night makes our scheduled trip to visit the treetops of the forest impractical. I get a tour of Corumba instead (which Guilherme has already given me). I make sure to go to a police checkpoint to get my exit stamp which I never needed for ...
Arrivée en Bolivie fatigante / In bolivia
... , un Seb qui dort toujours, etc, bref apres 6 heures de bus (bien remplis le bus et les 6 heures), nous arrivons a Corumba. Très facile de se faire tamponner le passaporte puisque la douane bresilienne se trouve dans la station. Le moins drole vient ...
I'm not a jockey!
... other tourists he was supposed to meet and who never turned up. We got in his car and went to the bus station in Corumba which was where their office was. It was a bit of a surprise to see that there were no other tour companies in ...
Pantanal
we got the bus from bonito at 6am to corumba. the bus was fairly modern and it was nice to drive and watch the sun rise. pretty soon it was onto dirt tracks which made it a rather bumpy ride and we were crossing little rickety wooden bridges that didnt ...
Boozing into Brazil
... we got our Bolivian exit stamps and then walked across the border to get our Brazilian entry stamps. Then, we took taxis to Corumba, our gateway to the Pantanal wetlands, where we checked into the Hotel Santa Monica. Priority number one was finding a ...
Plane dramas in Corumba
... and were due to drive into Bolivia the next morning and then catch a short 45min flight to Santa Cruz. Corumba is on the border between Brazil and Bolivia and on arrival in Corumba we had to pass through Brazilian immigration. In typical South American ...
Coppice Corumba
This is a top pick! ... compared to us), and the views they must see every morning must be amazing. After several days we took the jeep back to Corumba, said goodbye to Bosco (who asked for my hat ... fat chance), got a hotel, took a welcomed shower and went out with ...
first city in days
A nice old city in the middle of the pantanal. we really enjoyed our time here. the small and simple hostel we were in was friendly and cosy, though didnt have much in the way of luxury. first night we went for a stroll around town. a nice town that ...
Pantanal
On Wednesday morning we arrived at Campo Grande and booked on a tour to the Pantanal leaving later that morning. So, lucky for us, we headed off on another 5 hour bus ride, lol, but we stopped for an amazing buffet lunch in the middle which was ...
Brasiiiiiiiiil
... no litter and beautiful people. What a change! As we were booked into the wildlife lodge on the 13th, we had a night to enjoy Corumba. After spending an exciting afternoon (!) waiting for the local bus to take us to the regional bus station (we could have ...
Piranha fishing in the Pantanal!
... the night. The next morning was our last in the Pantanal - another walk followed by a long bus journey back to Corumba, on the border between Brazil and Bolivia. We will tomorrow be getting the ´death train´(don`t ask me why its called that`- we don`t ...
Rio Paraguay
We took a full day excursion on the Rio Paraguay. The open border policy between Bolivia and Brazil proves the tourist pound/dollar is now more important than yellow fever vaccinations as our documents were never checked. A good job too as my certificate ...
Breakfast with the Alligators (by MAPG)
Three days later, after a total of 20 hours spent on several buses, we were in the middle of the Pantanal jungle. Together with 2 Dutchmen, one Australian guy, and under the command of our rough guide called Amazon, we spent 3 nights in hammocks & ...
Corumba
... but my guide is nowhere. Turns out to be quite fortuitous. I meet Guilherme who's is a 23 year old student from the town of Corumba Brazil, 20 min away. His family picks him up and he offers me a ride to the hotel. His parents are great too. They quickly ...
Christmas in Corumba, Brazil
... english or spanish, which was surprising, and made communicating very difficult. Vic and I did alot of sign language. We came to Corumba (on the border of Brazil and Bolivia) to get our Visas to go into Bolivia, which is only a 15 min. drive to the ...