19/06/04- 21/06/04 Corumba

After a very long journey overnight and all of the next day we arrived late in Corumba and as there were no facilities in the bus station decided to take stay at one of the touts hostels as they promised air conditioning and a swimming pool, unfortunately they didn’t mention that the air conditioning would not be on and that we would be sharing the room with a variety of animals so the next morning we checked out and checked into a posh place for our last night in Brazil. We spent the day wondering very slowly around the town as it was incredibly hot and sitting by the pool. Corumba is lovely but most people use it as a jumping off point for tours to the Pantanal which is supposedly a wonderful place to see wildlife. Unfortunately we had completely run out of time so had to limit our wildlife tour to what we could see from the bus on the way in, which in itself was pretty amazing.



Lovely town- much nicer than Bolivia's effort on the other side of the border. Above is the view from our window - the second hotel with pool and unplayable billiards thing. A far cry from the strange hostal thing that we first went to with the gaggle of pushy, incompetent kids and the mother they kept refering to who never materialised. However, aside from frog, no other incident in shower