Pousada Aguas De Bonito

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How to get to Bonito

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).

São Paulo – Campo Grande – 1,000 km or 1h20m flight
Campo Grande – ...

... 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 ...

... He says "no, it's impossible". After a few argumentative exchanges I prove to him it's actually not "impossible" as I ignore his wishes and run back to the other side. I'm rewarded by the best shots of the trip of birds in-the-wild as opposed to those in captivity or being domesticated by constant feeding by man. The rest of the group regretted not following in my footsteps once they see my pics. Anyway shortly after we reach the ...

... for sure. Only thing was having got off a 19hour bus we were on another bus for 5 hours AND again no time to get food. We had a packet of wafer biscuits to see us through and water. All good really. So 5 hours later we are at the Pantanal area where we board an open back truck much like a cattle truck with 3other backpackers who had come from the north off another bus and were like us going camping in the Pantanal wetlands. It is much hotter than Rio here and we are sweating already ...

... there is no such thing as health and safety, its look out for yourself. So we are handed our equipment on the river bank, given a load of bait and told to fish for piranhas, ´oh and watch out for caimen, when they come onto the bank (that we were standing on) move along the bank´. So we start fishing and more and more caimen begin to appear on the banks, discreetly pearing their heads above the water surface. It starts with 2 or 3 and then there ...

... for its money beach wise aswell with some of the nicest beaches we've seen on our travels and very quiet to. I can stand a packed beach, another reason why I didnt like Copacabana. From here we went to another small town on the coast called Paraty a fishing village and old portugese colonial town, it was another place full of cobbled streets and colour, Picture opts around every corner. Next was the Iguazu Falls which I have to say are mind blowing! one of ...

... out all the animals and birds along the way - oh, and sore bottoms! By this point we had made a few friends including an Englishman called Alan, two French guys Philippe and Pierre and an American couple Linda and Paul (who were not with us at this point). With a little pursuasion Claire was picked first to be mounted on a horse, followed by the rest of us, for a couple of hours riding around a lake and forest. Chris seemed to be ok having ridden ...

... alligators and Anacondas so we had to watch ourselves! Climbing aboard our horses we now headed off into the wetlands. I did wonder at this point what there was to stop an alligator or giant Anaconda eating my horse with me on it, I suppose we just had to trust Marcello so off we went. The next 3 hours we rode through the wetlands, sometimes with the water up to our knees seeing endless birds that I can't possibly list but Storks, many different ...

The cockerel in the yard woke us up early today and it was too noisy with the fan or a/c, and too hot without it, so we struggled to get back to sleep. We needed to get up early anyway with an 8am collection to take us ...