Tag: Brazil
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Official Name: Federative Republic of Brazil Established: 7 September 1822 Population: 210,147,125 (2019 estimate) Religion: 64.6% Catholic, 22.2% Protestant, 8.0% no religion. Language(s): Portuguese Capital: Brasília Order of Visit: Thirty First First Visit: 5 December 2009 Last Visit: 18 December 2009 Duration: 14 Days Visit Highlights: – Rio De Janeiro: Christ the Redeemer statue, the beautiful…
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Friday 18 December 2009 Highlights: Sunrise in Pantanal Today we left the stunning Pantanal but first some of us got up at 5.00 am to see a amazing sunrise. On my return to the cabin I found that Andrew had considered waking up, but decided against it 🙂
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Thursday 17 December 2009 Highlights: Day Safari and wildlife spotting, Horse riding Today we set out on a day safari of the countryside. We saw lots of different wildlife, caiman, capivara and giant river otters. With the caiman we went down to the river and slowly got closer, David even got into the water —…
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Wednesday 16 December 2009 Highlights: Mosquitoes attack, Night safari We set of to the Pantanal today which is a large area of mostly swamp land. The roads are very rough and as we found out when we changed rides to a truck mosquitoes attack all the time. We will spend the next few days sleeping…
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Tuesday 15 December 2009 Highlights: Snorkelling with topical fish Today we went to Rio da Prata which is a private farm with a really clear river which we went snorkelling down but not swimming (swimming can cause the dirt to kick up, we float instead). This was an amazing experience and we got some great…
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Monday 14 December 2009 Highlights: Beach fun, Snake handling The overnight bus trip went fine and we settled into the new hotel at Bonito as soon as we arrived. We learned that the daughter of the owner was having a birthday party tonight.
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Sunday 13 December 2009 Highlights: Itaipu Dam Water release Andrew skipped breakfast but made it down for our 11 am trip to Paraguay to buy electronics and go shopping. We weren’t stopped at the border entering Paraguay and before we knew it where in a new country. We did some shopping in Paraguay,…
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Saturday 12 December 2009 Highlights: Iguassu Falls from Argentina side, speed boat ride under the Falls, Devil’s Throat. What an amazing, stunning day. First we started with a great included breakfast, the best by far in the trip. It was a little difficult getting Andrew up to breakfast in time and he did struggle a…
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Friday 11 December 2009 Highlights: Natural Wonder of the World – Iguassu Falls Our 21 hour and 30 minute bus rides from Paraty come to an end at 11 am which was followed up with a short shuttle ride to our new hotel which looked very impressive. Unfortunately not all our rooms were ready…
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Thursday 10 June 2009 Highlights: Overnight Public Bus Adventure A curse of a traveller is long bus and plane trips. Today was the day for a 21 hour plus trip. After doing some shopping with Martin and Andrew to prepare for the big trip and transferring some money to our VISA Travel card…
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