It took us three days to reach Bonito after leaving Brasilia. This was mostly due too a section of road about half way through our journey. The relentless rain fall this night before we hit the road had caused the dirt road to turn in to a nice slippery, muddy one. And seeing as though we were still running with our mostly road tyres on it made our task even harder. Dave had picked up his new set of more knobbly tyres two days earlier in Brasilia but was carrying them until the Bolivian border before putting them on (too get the most out of the existing tyres). But he soon found himself and the bike lying sideways on the mud twice in one hour, and both times braking off the panniers cam locks. Its quite frustrating seeing these nice off road tyres strapped to the bike when all you want is for them to be around the wheels. Good fun none the less.
Apart from the muddy road, we made it to Bonito too meet up with Simon and Blair without too many other hassles. Bonito is a lovely small town with one main commercial street. Very similar to other tourist town we have been too, meaning that there are lots of nice restaurants, bars, and Internet cafes. But what make Bonito so special is not the things found in the town is whats around that pulls in the points.
There are a number of freshwater rivers, with the clarity of a glass of mineral water in which you can snorkel. There are a huge number of fish which surround you as you drift effortlessly down stream. Such an amazing experience. It is so strange to think that we are in the middle of all this farming land and here we are going snorkeling in water which would rival that found somewhere like Fiji or Samoa.
Next stop is Corumba and the Bolivian frontier!
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