W e headed to Bonito after replenishing our depleted cash reserves in Campo Grande. Bonito is a town surrounded by many natural attractions, but strangely enough transportation to these attractions is not well organized. Even though all visits have to be booked through a local tour operator, every visit requires a taxi ride.
We visited a cave with a blue underground lake and snorkeled down a crystal clear river with colorful fish. An impressive sighting was that of two toucans that settled in a tree next to our hostel.
B esides the day time natural wonders the evenings turned out to be less than boring as well. The first evening, at the hostel, a Brazilian girl shamelessly showed us her photo album, of pictures of her and her drunken girl friends!
On the second evening we tried some Brazilian drinks, downing a caipirinha or two or was it three or four? The waiters even took a picture of us T raveling to and from Bonito involves a needlessly long bus ride to a town called Anastacio stopping in every village in the area.
One of them had a group leaving that afternoon for a three day stay in the Pantanal. T he Pantanal is South America's largest wetland, it is supposed to have a lot of visible wildlife, but we were a bit disappointed. As we drove to the camp we did see the world's largest rodent, called capybara, and loads of caimans. More impressively we saw 6 toucans land in a tree along the road. The excursions around the camp by contrast, yielded very little in the form of wildlife viewing in part due to 24 hours of heavy rainfall.
