Xaraes lodge Corumba

Estrada Parque, km 17 Abobral Corumba, State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

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Laatste nacht in Brazilie

A travel blog entry by dattatreya

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Maandag ochtend hebben wij de Pantanal achter ons gelaten en richting Bolivia gereden. Gezien onze eerdere ervaringen de grensovergang en het inklaren van de auto, zijn wij 's ochtens rustig vertrokken en hebben wij een hotel in Corumba, de grensplaats geboekt. De opzet is morgen ochtend alle tijd te hebben om Brazilie uit en Bolivia in te gaan. Tevens hebben wij dan rust voor ...

Into Brazil

A travel blog entry by aslightdetour




When we arrive in Brazil, it is humid and warm and like a tropical paradise. After a month in the chilly Andes, we are like heat seeking missiles who have suddenly found their target! Our first experience of Brazil however, is unfortunately border control, where we find out we have made a silly mistake.


Ever since entering South America we have been traveling on our Australian passports instead of our ...

We definitely need a new alarm clock.....

A travel blog entry by blondie-beardy

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... from our book on how to get there. Unfortunately along the way, we took a wrong turn, and ended up in the completely wrong end of town. Not good in a town which is already unsafe and when you stick out like a sore thumb! After desperately asking the friendliest looking people for directions, we eventually made it to our hostel in one piece, about an hour after arriving.
Once safely inside the hostel, we checked how we should go about buying our train tickets to ...

Brasiiiiiiiiil

A travel blog entry by dianeontheroad

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Happy we'd made the decision to hop over the border, we arrived in Brazil around midday and it was like we'd stepped into another world in the space of a few metres. Proper paved roads, no litter and beautiful people. What a change! As we were booked into the wildlife lodge on the 13th, we had a night to enjoy Corumba. After spending an exciting afternoon (!) waiting for the local bus to take us to ...

Aye Corumba - shenanigans in the Pantanal

A travel blog entry by duesouth

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The sleepy city of Corumba acts as the gateway to the Pantanal. There's little to do in the city but soak up the Brazilian sun and samba until your tour to the wetlands commences. After the soul destroying journey on the train across Bolivia we waltzed into Brazil wearisome but after a brief siesta we regained our excitement for travel and it dawned on us we had arrived in a new culture, a vast country and a new language. Our Spanish instincts which had become second ...