Brazilistol Jandaia Campo Grande

... otters playing about in. We enjoyed sitting fishing at that spot for a couple of hours, and despite us all catching a fish, we were quite obviously outfished by the otters who seemed to be having a productive morning! Gabrielle prepared some of the fish we'd caught for lunch, and then we packed up our stuff and got in the 4x4 ready to take us back to Campo Grande.<br><br>All in all, despite some of the ...

... to open it though with a little elbow grease.<br><br> We started to reverse out of the terminal, and low and behold, the bus broke down! We were sat there for over an hour while they buggered about with the thing. By the time it got going it was already dark. Bought a bottle of juice from one of they 3 million vendors that come onto the bus, but it was frozen! Wasn't my day I can tell you. The fact that the bus company used a typewriter from the 1920s ...

... rainy season which supports the rivers and wildlife. The profitability of the cattle farms has declined over the years and the farmers have turned to ecotourism of their land to support themselves and the environment. Brasil has less than 10% of its land untouched or cleared so this initiative is important as so any habitats have been lost. We arrive therefore at the gates of Santa Clara Poussada (far) and go through the and drive 10 minutes and come to the settlement. As we do we see ...

... gekregen, moesten we vast ergens overstapppen, maar waar? Geen idee. In Brazilie wordt nagenoeg geen Engels gesproken, zelfs geen Nederlands en het Portugees lijkt in geen velden op Spaans, behalve geschreven dan. Dat zou wel handig geweest zijn trouwens, als net als in een stripboek iedereen van die ballonetjes boven zijn hoofd had met tekst erin, maar helaas, wij moesten gewoon maar afwachten. Om 20:30 stroomde de bus leeg en ons werd verteld dat de ...

... rodeo/fair on the first night and was really good. Some big country music singers there doing a concert and went on the ferris wheel (wow). Met with Luciana frmo couch surfing the next day and she took me to her uni classes easter bbq which was good. Met a haep of people, ate delicious bbq, learnt some stupid card game called Ruco. Off on Pantanal tour today to feed some mosquitos.

... Caprinhas are made with) so we decided to do that thinking we could just have as many as we felt like and then any left over we could take to Rio...well when the time came for making the cocktails practically the whole bottle was added to a bucket where the cocktail was mixed and we were given four straws!!!! It was a very fun (if slightly blurry) night, that had all four girls up dancing with the guides...or at least having the guides attempt to teach us to dance ...

... même temps!) we left at the crack of dawn for a jeep safari. Our guide Carlos, is really funny and extremely interesting. We saw loads on the way then stopped for a walk in the forest. We saw the howling monkeys again. We also saw some warthogs (like Pumba in the Lion´s King) and beautiful blue macaw birds.We had lunch in a farm then siesta time for 4 hours as it is too hot outside. We quickly got bored because it was too hot to sleep in the hammocks and the mosquitoes did not help ...

... I'll definatly do it again though as its a really fun and rewarding thing to do, I loved it. Right now were in Sucre in Bolivia, its a lovely old colonial town, all white washed colonial buildings and bolovians in traditional attire. We went to see 68 million year old dinosaur footprints today which was cool. I'll update the blog with more pics soon, hope your all well and looking forward to seeing some of you for christmas drinks...god how this years flying! Steve :)

... to learn about the different seasons (wet, dry and the in between bits) and how different the landscape is. Finally we were given a talk about one of the most beautiful birds we found during our time, the Hyacinth Macaw. The blue bird is being studied here and looked after by a team of biologists who are very passionate about increasing their numbers. In the afternoon we took a long trek through the forest surrounding the lodge where we were told to ...

... we were out of our tent and collecting fire wood. At this point Marcello pointed out we needed enough fire wood to last the night as this keeps animals away from our camp. This fact certainly improved my wood collecting ability. With a fire now on the go we sat down as Marcello pulled four enormous steaks out of his pack. As we had arrived late at our camp we had had no time to fish for dinner, luckily Marcello was prepared as he chucked the steaks onto our ...