Today we start our adventure in Brazil. We will go to Itororo Lodge in the Atlantic Cloud forest for a few days and then go to the Golden Tamarin Preserve on the day we leave Brazil.
Our driver and van picked us up from the hotel about 9am for our 2 1/2 to 3 hour drive to Itororo Lodge.
It was the quietest drive- hardly anyone talked the entire drive. We stopped once for a bathroom break at a nice convenience store. Jennifer and I picked up cookies. Some of the road signs were interesting- especially the ones with photographs of animals
We arrived at the lodge about 11:30am and were shown to our rooms after a cup of tea and slice of cake. We sat on the deck watching the birds come into the feeders until the drizzle started and at 13:00 we had lunch.
We are the only guests at the lodge right now. It’s a small lodge that has 8 rooms.
We sat and watched birds after lunch too. It’s pretty fun to just sit there and watch fancy colorful birds fly into the feeders. Then we went to the room to organize and rest but the birds were out and about so back to the deck we went.
Actually Tibor spent the time between lunch and dinner wandering on all the trails around the lodge. He made a nice map/track for the lodge.
It was almost dark when we started dinner at 6:30pm. Our caipirinha drink was a bit strong but after the ice melted a bit we enjoyed it. After dinner it was back to the room to get ready for tomorrow.
