Bonito

We made it out of the wilderness of the Pantanal and arrived in a lovely town aptly named Bonito. Bonito means beautiful in portuguese. While the town itself is not all that beautiful, there are some ´bonito´things to see around it! Bonito is famous for its incrediably clear rivers surrounding it, with thousands of tropical fish swimming around. So we walked 8k to a natural swimming pool south of town , the water was so clear it was amazing. And there were literally hundreds of fish, we hired snorkels for the day and swam around with all the fish!

The next day we made a trip to the Gruta do Lago Azul. We put some very attractive hard helmets on and entered the magnificent cave. There was hundreds of amazing stalacite formations and the lake within the cave was the most beautiful blue, the pics wont do it justice...it was the best cave we´ve ever been in.

The final ´sight´we did in Bonito was a visit to the Project Joboia. It is a snake show by this guy who is VERY enthusiastic about snakes. It is a 2 hour talk about snakes and he is basically trying to change people´s opinions on snakes and get over their fear of them. I thought I would be terrified and not really enjoy this show at all, but it was great...I was the first one up to touch the red tail boa he had draped over him all night! (Sorry Mum) By the end of the night Chris and I both had the snake round our necks and had even had a quick kiss from it!!

But the highlight (sort of) of the night was watching a very hungry snake gobble up a live rat-something I never thought I´d see, it was quite disturbing as the rat was very much alive but it was over quite quick and really fascinating watching the eating process and how the snake managed to get this giant rat into its mouth...disgusting, but certainly an experience!