Best Western Mato Grosso Palace Cuiaba

Day 71 - 18/03/09 Today I stayed in doors due to the 40 insect bites on my back. Not sure if there're all Mosquito's, maybe something else had a nimble too. A bit of massacre unfortunately so I've been in my air conditioned room for most of the day. The mosquito's in the Pantanal must of bitten straight through my clothing yesterday, the persistent little *******s ...

... to Brasilia: if you do not know anyone there just give up that idea. The city is not tourist friendly at all. We knew some people there but we were not able to reach them and we had no place to stay the night. So we rented a car (Brasilia is a city made for cars, so you won't go anywhere without one) and drove to the city following some pousada hints from Lonely Planet. They were all closed, apparently because the local government does not ...

... Guarana is the country's answer to Coca-cola, and is pretty good, with the rum. Coffee is GREAT, the best we've had since our supply ran out from home. The cafezinho (tiny cups of strong super-sweet coffee) is ok, but the basic coffee is as good as any we've ever had anywhere. Here also, they share the tradition of Mate with other south american countries, but they have HUGE mate cups, instead of the petite Argy versions. Does size really matter??? Along the way we start to see a ...

... and then an early dawn walk. One highlight was seeing a giant old tree full of about 5 different bird species, plus bats and insects, and surrounded by a group of alligators. There was also a fantastic mine-field of dew covered spider webs in the morning, very pretty. Another highlight was a hand sized tarantula spider in our bathroom. I had to get Flavio just to make sure it was going to eat me or something. Can´t be too sure here in the Brasilian wildnerness! The only ...

Neither of us slept very well last night, so it was a bit of a shocker to wake up when the alarm went off at 5am. <br><br>It was pitch black outside, but by the time Fernando, a guy from the hotel, Katie &amp; I left the premises it was definitely getting ...

It was another 7am start today and our first activity after breakfast was to go horse-riding. <br><br>We walked behind the pousada (hotel) and round to the stables, where a variety of horses of different shapes and sizes were saddled up and waiting for us. <br ...

We were up at 7am to have breakfast and then both groups climbed into a motorboat and we headed back to the mainland to start our "eco walk", which sounded... 'interesting'. <br><br>The weather today was nowhere near as good as yesterday and it even threatened rain. <br><br>We got the boat to the place where we'd taken the jeep to yesterday and then started walking.<br><br>The eco walk turned out to be a rather lame walk (now THAT must be an oxymoron if ever I saw one ...

<br>Today was one of those 'travel days' where most of it was spent on a bus. <br><br>Our third and final bus connection landed us in the town of Cuiaba about 90 mins later than planned, which normally wouldn't matter but we were a little nervous this time because we had a guide &amp; driver meeting us from the ...

... as a very hot and sweaty affair as we were forced to put on the long trousers and long t-shirts in order to avoid the mossies and did they come out! I was luckily enough to avoid getting bitten too much but what irritated me the most was the constant buzzing in your ears. For the second night in the Pantanal we stayed in a lovely lodge with air conditioning ...

... campus. Cada um deles preencheu uma ficha de comentários onde colocaram seus dados pessoais e assinalaram o desejo de participar do movimento estudantil em Cuiabá. Entendemos que juntos somos mais fortes. Não havia barreira denominacional, simplesmente o desejo de servir a Deus. Facilmente pudemos ver a mão do Senhor sobre esse evento que foi marcante para o estabelecimento de um movimento espiritual no campus da UFMT.