Monday, November 30, 2009

Pantanal and Bonito Nov. 2 to Nov. 8








We did so much in one week it was crazy evryday we did something. Most days we had to get up pretty early. We were in Pantanal Nov. 2nd to the afternoon of Nov. 4th. We went fishing, horseback riding, on a safari, and hiking. There were so many alligators it was insane. They walk so weird. It was so gorgeous though. We hung out in the hammocks whenever we could. There were an insane amount of awesome people o the trip. We shared traditional dances from each country and had fun learning bad words in other languages.












Bonito was incredible my favorite part of the trip. They say that Bonito is even better then the Amazon they just don't have as much publicity and such. We in Bonito from the night of the fourth til the morning of the eighth. We went to the waterfall park, rafting, snorkeling, and to the caves. We went out to dinner every night and I tried Jacara alligator. It was actually really good. While we were at the caves we ran into another rotary group and there was a guy from WV in the group and we are both going to WVU next year. After getting back to te hotel one day after dinner I was going through my stuff because I was going to take a shower and i lifted up my towel and a taranchula was in my stuff. It was so scary, I screamed and my roommates saw why and we all ran screaming out of the room. One of the shaporones came and got it but i am sure we woke the etire hotel.

4 comments:

  1. Hey Shayla! The pictures are fantastic! It's great to see your smiling face and see that you are enjoying yourself and making friends. The picture of you and your friend with the fishing rods is beyond cute. Love it!!! My favorite pictures are the white water raft waterfall extravaganza and the zipline! How FUN! How did that stuff get captured on film so perfectly? Visiting Brazil vicariously is really fun :) Can't wait to hear and see more from you when you return!! Love you soooooooo much!!! PS where'd that parrot come from?

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  2. OH yeah, and I hope you are bringing back plenty of those hammocks with you... Wow. No words to describe how great those are!!

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  3. we have no idea where the parrot came from. after rafting we went to the little snack bar that they had and it was just in the middle of the table area just easting people left opver off the floor. (food that people had dropped. it was really random but really cool. lol i was afraid to touch it though. lol not to say i didnt want to!

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  4. the pic of the girl with the fishing pole and me, the girl is from france she is so cool to talk to. the understands but doesnt speak english and i understand and dont speak portuguese and she does so i would talk in english and she would respond in portuquese and vice versa it was kinda cool. lol
    the pics were captured like that because Amy got me an awesome camera for graduation. lol

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