Carla's Adventures: Bonito

I am nearly 2 weeks behind myself in keeping up to date with blogging!!!! Most of the internet places in the hostals are soooo bad and so slow and frustrating so trying to get photos uploaded is a mission!

After leaving the Pantanal I travelled with Avi and 3 other girls to an awesome little place called Bonito. It totally lived up to its name (bonito is beautiful in both portugues and spanish).....we had a fantastic 2 days there. Snorkelling in the crystal clear river and visiting a cave that had incredible blue water (grutos lago azul). It was very relaxing and we felt really safe there. Walking around at night at 1am was no problem at all. The locals were really friendly. We frequented the bar across the road from our hostel a couple of times to hang out with the awesome people that owned it! Our marks are now permanently on the wall of their bar - they get all travellers to write on the wall! Its very cool!

I had my first taste of Brazilian Cachaca....its alcohol made from sugar cane....to me it tastes like pure ethanol!!! But its a fav with a lot of travellers and obviously the Brazilian people! In true Kiwi Carla style I nearly spat it out.......and proceeded to order a beer! We decided since we had just spent 3 days hanging out with Caiman in the Pantanal we had to at least see what they tasted like so in Bonito we also sampled a caiman curry! Not bad!