trip diary
Longest Journey Travel Journal
CorumbaOct 29, 2009 Thu | |
| Morning | |
|---|---|
| 06:20 | |
| 06:52 | Time Changed Last night
to GMC -3 |
| 07:08 |  hotel santa monica palace |
| 07:46 |  corumba |
| 07:57 |  sentur - tourist information You can get a tourist map here. They don't speak English, but they tried to be helpful. |
| 08:30 | Here is where you get your passport entry/exit stamp
They supposed to be open on 8:00am, but here I am at 8:30, and they are still closed |
| 08:36 |  corumba bridge |
| 10:01 | Booked Santa Clara for 330R, staying in Lodge from Indiana Tour. The owner claimed she was from Sweden (her ancestors probably were).
11:37:37 no river tour today, |
| 11:38 |  brazilian three musketeers |
| 11:40 |  antonio maria coelho |
| 11:41 |  antonio maria coelho |
| 11:55 |  giant corumba lizard |
| 11:55 |  corumba iguana |
| 11:59 |  boat tour on rio paraguay |
| Afternoon | |
| 12:00 |  fisherman of rio paraguai |
| 12:13 |  fisherman of rio paraguay |
| 12:16 |  corumba tree |
| 12:32 |  corumba from santa monica palace |
| 12:34 |  santa monica palace hotel Price: 85R
Expensive but worth the money Include Breakfast Breakfast is great, best variety so far Air Con, TV, Fridge, private Bathroom, hot water (electric) 12:00pm checkout Breakfast 6:00 to 9:30am Polite staff (don't speak much English) |
| 14:39 |  croumba church from hotel |
| 15:00 |  statue of st francis |
| 15:12 |  snake woman |
| 15:18 |  flying stone birds |
| 15:19 |  st francis and his animal friends |
| 15:19 |  wolf and heron |
| 15:20 |  snow crane and the stone tree |
| 15:21 |  hollywood handprints |
| 15:22 |  unicorn and cow girl |
| 15:22 |  woman with bare breast |
| 15:23 |  jesus and the cow |
| 15:34 | |
| 17:12 | |
| 17:27 |  collapsed roof Traveling is not about good food or good hotel, it is what you can experience. Why this, why that.... once a decision is made, it is set in stone.
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| 17:41 |  corumba harbour |
| Night | |
| 18:11 |  corumba granary Ordered a Pizza for 25R and a soda. They don't have sprite, only "soda" Antarctica, same same. The pizza is huge, it doesn't look like the food for one person... wasteful.... |
| 18:12 |  pizza in vivabella corumba Ordered a Pizza for 25R and a soda. They don't have sprite, only "soda" Antarctica, same same. The pizza is huge, it doesn't look like the food for one person... wasteful.... |
| 18:17 |  tuck boat in rio paraguay |
| 18:47 |  granary sunset |
| 18:48 |  sunset rio paraguay |