Sonesta Hotel Brasilia

Once more time for an early start, unfortunately it was not to be. We were ready, but on trying to start the vehicle the air system was still playing up and we had a problem with the fuel flow again. Mike changed the primary fuel filter, which seems to have done the trick. Regarding the air, we cannot take off the brakes without air, it was a case of taking of the primary distribution valve to check it. It did look OK but on replacing the air worked and so we re going to continue until we ...

Planujac wyjazd wymyslilem sobie pojechac do stolicy. Wszyscy mi to odradzali ale pomyslalem sobie ze nie ma takiego drugiego miasta na swiecie (choc tu sie mylilem - drugie ``wymyslone`` miasto to Belo Horizonte w Brazylii i chyba cos w Afryce jeszcze jest). Uparlem sie jednak no i dostalem tom co chcial. Zastalem tam drogie, przepelnione hotele (jakies obrady rzadowe akurat mialy miejsce), monumentalna archtekture Nemeiera, ktora robi wrazenie z daleka, ale ...

... the gears.... The day went without incident really apart from Alex driving it relatively fast through a salty stream, covering the engine, causing us to stall. Still, we were up and running again after a push start and lots of revs to dry off the engine... Ouch! Next day we relaxed and then decided to sandboard at sunset from the main dune in Jeri... All great until I decided to follow what some other guys were doing....sandboard down ...

... a paper form that he had to fill out by hand. It took him quite a while, since he'd never done it before, but we finally got our piece of paper. It was clear we could have driven off into Brazil without it, but doubtful whether we could get the Jeep out at the other end. So we headed off finally to find the road to Porto Alegre on the coast, where we were supposed to meet up with the family of one of our neighbors in St. Charles. She's Brazilian, from Porto Alegre ...

... people told us we wanted ´Cristo.´ The bizarre way you get your entry stamp into Brazil in this case; is a bus ride from the border to a small terminal, then a queue (providing you´re there when they are open) for the required piece of paper and entry stamp. All legal. (or for speakers of Porguguese todo legal!!!!) The Pantanal After the mountains the flatlands; or more appropriately the very wet lands where wild animals and amazing birds show themselves to the ...

... brésilien est beaucoup moins visible. Rasé dans de nombreuses villes, il a été souvent défiguré par des constructions récentes, et le Centro de Rio comme le Pelourinho de Salvador offrent un mélange indigeste de belles maisons et d'ignobles immeubles type « Moche-les-Grands-Clapiers ». Quant aux villes nouvelles, elles perpétuent la tradition des plans en damier (Campo Grande, Foz do Iguaçu), mais sans le charme colonial, et en mode vertical, préfigurant les ...

... After going way up again and circling the city the pilot came on, informing us that just as we were about to land, a helicopter flew in our flight path and had we not pulled up we would have hit it. I guess the only recourse is knowing that the people in that helicopter probably about ******* their pants at the sight of an Airbus 320 barrelling right down on them...a friendly game of chicken if you will...haha! After that, we landed (on a different ...

I still cannot believe it.. I am finally in Rio! I would have loved to share some of the amazing beach pictures, but as confused as I am of the sudden whether and culture change, I forgot to take my memory card with me today. So, you will have to wait... I am staying in this lovely area called Jardim Botanico with a middle-aged woman, Lea. She does not speak a word of English or Spanish, basically any language I speak... I am really ...

Wall i say Brasilia but thats just cause i gotta put something. Although it was at one point our destination we went through several 'moods' on our record long bus journey that changed this. Many of these moods hardly as reliable or logical as the state of mind we were in when we made our decision to visit brasilia in the first place, but after 20hrs on a bus where they don't serve food, logc easily falters to our states of mind that can best be described as the borderline of ...

... each outfitted with newer heavy duty tires. Each buggy had people, one a full family, one two high school age lads, and one had four older men... and you know what, they were dressed like they were out of the 1800's and speaking a vaguely familiar dialect.... GERMAN! I guess we had stopped at one of the most northern towns in Mennonite inhabited region of the Chaco (vast, barren region in the middle of South America). In ...