Global Garden Cuiaba

... to nothing today, I really enjoyed the inactivity, just me my laptop and an air conditioner, glorious! Day 69 - 16/03/09 Got caught in a massive storm this afternoon while making a visit to the ATM. Thunder and lighting with torrential rain turned the roads in to raging torrents. I was marooned under the veranda of shop for half an hour waiting for the rain to subside, which it didn't. So I made a run for to a the bus stop across the road and got completely drenched. Caught ...

... and ready to carry on our adventures we soon hit the Transpantaneira, the infamous road which is only 160km long & mostly red gravel, as someone had the foresight to consider how wise building a road that was under water for most of the year actually would be. Thanks to this dirt trail given relatively easy access, it's dotted with Estancias and Posadas as the Pantanal is predominantly privately owned land. Our first night accommodation was on a rustic Estancia complete with it's ...

... aa dra opp denne lille djevelen sier nok!!(Paa fisketuren fikk Hans fra nederland et stygt bitt av den 15 cm store fisken i fingeren! De har jammen skarpe tenner!) Mange dyr ble sett, mange bilder ble tatt, mange opplevelser skal fordoeyes......formidabel fin tur!! Og til slutt: Lives moeter med lite hyggelige mindre og stoerre dyr: moete #2, 3 og 4 - En ¨forferdelig stor¨ gresshopper hopper ...

... gave way to swampy marshes, where locals were fishing, more birds sat on the fence posts, and then...alligators! At first we saw one or two, then whole billabongs full of them, like an Alligator Soup. As you can see from a few pics, it turns out these creatures were pretty timid, and I could walk (slowly) right up to them. We eventually arrived at our accommodation. Our first afternoon, we joined a family of three Californian-El Salvadorian men, and an Austrian girl (Iris ...

... on the default setting. This is Play All Songs - In Alphabetical Order of Artists! Of course, this meant we started our trip out of Foz do Iguaçu with ABBA. Throughout the next day and a half, we enjoyed other "A" listers such as Aerosmith, Alannis Morriset, Andrew Lloyd Webber (!?), Andre Bocelli and Avril Lavine. At this rate, we should get to listen to Queen by the time we are in Chile! Anyway, back to the bus trip... Things were humming along pretty well until about ...

... was no visible sunrise.<br><br>We did see a heron silhouetted in one of the trees which was pretty cool. <br><br> <br><br>Just after we decided to walk for another 10 minutes before turning back and we were rewarded with a clear sight of a toucan in a tree ...

... the problem was that it then came face-to-face with another horse, which for some reason went absolutely mental!<br><br>One of the Dutch ladies (who is 73!) was on the first horse, Fernando was on the second, and both were thrown off into the deep water when ...

... caught a fish inside the first 5 minutes, which was very impressive and extremely annoying as we were getting nowhere fast! <br><br>We didn't have much luck at first and the other boat soared into a 3-0 lead. My competitive nature was bubbling under the surface like The Incredible Hulk, but I managed not to have a complete paddy and remained patient! <br><br>After about 15 minutes of trying without reeling (pulling!) in a fish, we asked the guide if our technique ...

... guide &amp; driver to formulate a plan for getting through all the water. <br><br><br><br>It was absolutely boiling outside, so after 5 minutes I had to find some shade because I'd left my cap in the van and the sun was really beating down. <br><br>It was here that I designed a new cutting edge piece of eyewear by ...

... Na manhã seguinte fomos para a UFMT orar. Andamos por quase todos os institutos e, no final, fomos para a frente da Reitoria. Quando começamos a orar eu me lembrei do sonho que tive. E foi justamente o que aconteceu. Pasme! Começou a ventar e os participantes do projeto estavam sentados em forma de círuculo. Eu estava de pé. Então eu comecei a interceder e disse para a equipe: dêem as mãos. Todos deram as mãos e começamos a adorar e ...