Bonito

Trip Start Jun 03, 2008
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Trip End Aug 11, 2008


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Flag of Brazil  , State of Maranhao,
Thursday, July 24, 2008

After leaving the Pantanal we arrived in Benito. Benito is a small town in the middle of nowhere in Southern Brazil, which is famous for its Snorkelling and cave diving. On Friday(July 25th) we did the snorkelling in the Rio de Prata which apparantly is amongst the best in the world. It took us about an hour to get to the base from the hostel, nine of us were doing the trip. We then got in our wet suits which were to keep us afloat so we would not have to swim which might frighten the fish away, the rivers current would carry us downstream. We had to walk 40 min in our wetsuits through a forest to get to the river which was a bit surreal, along the way we saw monkeys.

When we arrived at the river we had 10 min practise in a shallow area of the pool. We then proceeded downriver for over an hour. The feeling was brilliant just floating along the fish inches from your face, some of them were bloody huge and there were loads of them! Dive board
Dive board
 ! We also got to briefly go through rapids and saw little volcanic bubbles at the bottom of the river. We also saw a Caiman and monkeys along the way and the whole thing was excellent, would highly recommend it although it is pretty expensive, but you also get a superb buffet lunch!!

 The next day we went to a private resort beside a river. Got meat in the supermarket for a big BBQ for lunch as well. The resort was amazing, crystal clear water, diving boards, waterfalls and a zip-line which was great craic. We spent the whole day there, they also had facilities to play beach volleyball and soccer and had an area for monkeys and also a huge bull you could get up on. Was a brilliant relaxing day and the weather was beautiful as well
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