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Campo Grande - Entry point for the PantanalJul 20, 2005
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Carrie and her first caipirinha, the national drink of Brazil.
| We took an overnight bus from Foz de Iguacu and expected to have a 12 hour journey into Campo Grande (an entry point city for the Pantanal). This turned into close to 16 hours, due to some reason that we didn't understand as it was explained in Portuguese. We arrived in Campo Grande, which is quite a large city of 700,000 people on the southwestern side of Brazil. We picked Hotel Iguacu for our accomodations - nice looking lobby and friendly staff but the room was nothing special. It was conveniently located next to the bus station, which is where all the tour companies are located, so that worked out well for us. We were bombarded by tour company representatives when we got off the bus and put off talking to them until after we got a bite to eat in our stomachs. After lunch, we got in a long conversation with one owner of a company who happened to have been the soccer coach at Carrie's middle school in Michigan back in the mid 80's. He went on and on about his love for Michigan and Billy Joel, but despite the common background (the state, not the music), we went with another company which offered a lodge with hot water, nicer accomodations, and a cheaper rate. With the day to kill in Campo Grande, we wandered around the city, checked out the local market (still no peanut butter for sale), and enjoyed a fish dinner with caipirinhas (the Brazilian drink). We had hoped to do a website update, but we had to delay this plan when the only two open internet cafes we found didn't have any empty seats. |
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