Hotel Wetega Bonito

... from us. Other discoveries included seeing some wild pineapples, carnivorous plants and other weird fruit trees. <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br ><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><b r><br><br><br>Got back in the car and headed off to the River where after being asked for our 'insurance details just incase' we got into wet suits and jumped onto the back of a openair safari van type of thing ...

... rainforest. In the middle of this was a crystal clear river full of fish ranging from 50cm to 1cm big. Varying depths from 3m to nothing along with a strong or inexistant current gave this river varying environments to explore. We enjoyed teh cool water for an hour until ...

... br><br>How to get to Bonito<br><br>To get to Bonito from São Paulo, you have to go first to Campo Grande and from there to Bonito. There is not much to see in Campo Grande, but you could stop one day in the city if you have time. It has 700 thousand inhabitants, which makes it a middle sized city in Brazil (it is not amongst the 10 largest). <br><br>São Paulo &#8211; Campo Grande &#8211; 1,000 km or 1h20m flight<br>Campo Grande &#8211 ...

... Wild camping by a series of Argentinian gas stations in the middle of no where. The truckers didn't know what had hit them when a truck full of foreigners pitched up, lit a campfire and proceeded to party the night away. *Cooking for 22 people: we take turns to make meals while on the move, and my group whipped up home-made burgers for the group which went down a storm! *Truck parties: on long drive days, the cool box of beer gets opened, the ...

... de Prata for a day of snorkeling with 50+ variety of fresh water fish in a very shallow river formed by natural springs offering crystal-clear water. However, along the way we stop at the Barra de Aracas (Burrow of Parrots... I think). Of course, this is additional money and the weather is cloudy with light rain so I'm not at first thrilled at the prospect but I enter with everyone else nevertheless. A short <br>trail leads us to ...

... waterfall. When we had all got back in we had to swim through some rapids which was brilliant fun.<br> <br> After a little while we then joined into the larger Rio do Prata which was freezing and much bigger and deeper &#8211; but still maintained the beautiful clarity and had lots of gorgeous fish in it. Before long we had to get out &#8211; we had been in the water nearly two hours! It was an absolutely fantastic ...

... like floating in an aquarium. <br><br>We&#8217;ve also turned into avid nature watchers since we arrived here, but it would be impossible not to be fascinated by the bird life alone. I&#8217;ve never seen such an abundance of colours and shapes and sizes! On top of that we&#8217;ve got giant anteaters, emu&#8217;s, eagles and camen crocodiles plus many more&#8230;<br><br>The hunt is on for a photo of a Tucan though, we&#8217;ve seen ...

... more a huge variety of desserts has appeared, as if by magic. Not even I, renowned for my sweet-tooth, was able to find room in my stomach for everything, but I did try crystallized star-fruit and watermelon rind, rice-pudding with doce-de leite, several kinds of cake, some sort of sweet-potato dessert and ginger cookies. And then I waddled over to the hammocks to rest. That night we went out to explore the city. We went first to "O Projeto Jibóia," where during the ...

... You have to breathe a certain was when you snorkel which can't help but relax you. After snorkellign in the different parts of the river we had a buffet lunch and chilled on the sunny, grassy grounds of the snorkel shool in chairs and hammocks. The next day Katie, Rachel and I took a taxi to some private grounds near the town where you could swim int he waterfalls, zipline and play with the wild monkeys and much more including playing giant chess, which I didn't indulge in. The wealth ...

The cockerel in the yard woke us up early today and it was too noisy with the fan/air conditioning, but too hot without it, so we struggled to get back to sleep again.<br><br>We needed to get up early anyway with an 8am collection to take us on our first excursion ...