Brazil by Daniele Somenzi
Stato: BRAZIL (BR)
Brazil
Within Brazil Bus 4x4 with a flow of about thirty people from Venezuela. The bus is full of people and the road is the transamazzonica, on cards in a dozen hours should arrive in Manaus, the capital of the Amazon, but soon discover that it is not so. The reason the road.
Every time it rains here, not 2 drops and so does not otherwise explain a thriving green so, come here cammionate water at a time, and ruin the road, causing mini streams that break up the large holes prevent the bus to go strong, but these holes were not of a meter, no we went around the whole bus is so large. Well the result that half of the passengers was evil and never get anywhere, even after hours and hours of travel under the sun with moisture.
Even I was there to throw them, I am seeing the courage 2 sisters before me who do not ever complained, but perhaps they prayed, only later discover that are missionaries in Italy. We arrive finally at Boa vista, on one arm of the Amazon, where the garimpeiros have the base, here are gold-diggers to sell their nuggets. Indeed in the village there are shops with more than written off in Portuguese buy gold.
Me and a boy and 2 Swedish Swiss, we leave the bus and decide to take the plane to not die in the Amazon forest, where no road or from a precipice in a channel, by vomiting. Mancavano still 6 hours to get to Manaus in the heart of the night. ma chi me lo fa fare.
The cute little airport nestled in the forest, quiet, with only one plane, I filled with joy, peace at last, just transamazzonica. Flight of varig, I have been sleeping on the window was so much stress, I had never before have abbormentato on un'aereo so suddenly.
Manaus to arrive in the dark and 4 we take a taxi driving by going crazy with the red 4 times. Behold, I say, we cracked on the bus, not plane crashed hours that goes against us spiaccichiamo car.
He says to our reproach, but here they do it all, VERY WELL. Mah!
Un'ostello to sleep in cages, but we accept all while going to bed. After fleeing to another place that looks like un'affittacamere.
Passeggio to Manaus and discover that although no major roads that have come from other cities, is very large. Here is all duty free, without charge. many arrive by plane from Rio or Sao Paulo to buy radio tv computer etc., everything is cheaper.
But the purpose of my coming here in the Amazon is of course to visit the nature that I book a tour of one day with a meal including first by boat and then by canoe between the jiungla flooded. Everything is very beautiful, gigantic trees, we also see the biricchino and lazy sloth as well as a pair of long anaconda ten meters
The caiman is musetto see it's not touch, while the fish piranas, I see them in a stand dried in the sun. will buy a put that on my dashboard in Australia.
Lead us in a kind of swamp where a houseboat is a very big restaurant to go the tour.
On the way back we see the meeting of the yellow waters of the rio solimoes with black rio negro who accompany without mingling for tens of km.
The river is so great that a cruise ship has arrived here in three days by the sea, along the water. The Vistafjord of Cunard. I had already seen in the past in Miami.
Poverty is rampant, the shacks are so many, children plunge into the putrid discharges close to the city, which of course go into the river.
In the evening I take for the first time in my life the new Boeing 767 for the transbrasil The capital of Brazil.
Where to arrival in the morning at dawn. From Brasilia is designed as a sheet of paper, all the buildings in order. Just take a long-haul bus that brings me, traveling, this time in beautiful paved roads, to Rio de Janeiro. The following morning.
I remain a few days the guest of a friend in one of the buildings in front of copacabana, visited the great cristo Corcovado and the cable car above the pom de sucar the view is spectacular, but as you know, the confusion of the city where buses are also the races with each other for who is ahead, I do not like. So I see a day of tests on the Formula 1 Grand Prix circuit and then with Jacarepaguá Varig 747, flying directly to malpensa, during the night doing my usual visit to the flight deck. hello