Pousada Caramanchao Bonito

... people travelling around. They also receive a lot of foreigners, so there should be English speaking people among the staff. They arrange transportation for the tours.

You might have some trouble in other pousadas (small hotels) since very few people speak English. Some restaurants will have an English menu as well.

Tours you shouldn’t miss

There are many tours in Bonito. The duration is usually ½ day but some take ...

Again the travel agency screws me over a bit by making me use the slow public transportation that this time was late by over an hour -- and not in my favor. However, I'm due to arrive in Bonito after nightfall anyway so it just means that I get through some more of the adventure novel I'd brought along -- fittingly set in the Peruvian and Brazilian Amazon.

My accommodation is back to hostels -- the only one actually in Bonito ...

... and the fish were just beautiful and you could just see everything. We started in the Rio do Olhos do Agua – which means the river of eyes of water, as there are so many fresh water springs in this part of the river. First of all we just headed in a circuit round the kind of source-pool of the river and then we headed down stream. It was beautiful the whole way – if you took your head out you were ...

... worlds largest wetland where we stay for three nights – two in hammocks! It should only be a 5 hour trip to get there but we are already delayed as there are protesters blocking the roads en route. Apparently this is very common here. They are protesting about the current elections in Bolivia and the current president is running unchallenged for a second term and many people are not happy about it. Should be interesting if we ...

... I am received with an impressive spread. There must have been 15 salads on offer, kept fresh by a spring channeled through the kitchen, and another 15 dishes being kept warm on the wood-burning stove. I loaded up my plate and sat down to gobble up every calorie I had just burned, happy to know that the vegetables I was eating had been grown but a few feet away (the Estância Mimosa uses their own produce grown in an on-site, organic veggie garden). When I returned back ...

... groot, tot wel een meter lang met van die enorme (gelukkig trage!) bekken. De vissen hebben andere kleuren, jagen elkaar af en toe op en weer dobber jij rustig tussen dit schouwspel door, heerlijk onder een dak van tropische boomtoppen. Lisenka en ik waren het er over eens (en wij hebben gezamenlijk toch al aardig wat leuke plekke op deze aardkloot bezocht), dit is echt een ervaring die in de top 10 aller tijden hoort te staan. Weer helemaal blij!

... girls dancing to the rhythm, it really got us ready for Rio. we settle in are cute little hostel in the middle off town, great location. After a quick city tour we all decided to sample there local dish called MOQUECA, its a hot spicy seafood casserole, you could totally taste the African spices in this on. It went really well with the Brazilian drink called CAIPARINHA,Its strait liqueur made from sugure cane( I wish i could remember the name, but i will come back to this one ...

... they weren´t very helpful. There were also these HOT guys dancing on 4 podiums throughout the dancefloor. Very Hot, but also very gay. I was extremely disappointed, though they did make very good eye candy (I hate that saying, but no other way to put it!) We also met this Boston dude who informed us that it was just a big ´Pash fest´ though I´m sure he meant ´**** fest´ To prove his point, he just walked up to this random gay guy and very persuasively found the guys tonsils for a good ...

... Anyway, the place which offered the snorkling was a very nice farm, and they must do very well out of these excursions because the place was huge, and spotless. Very nice buildings, facilities, and very well ...