{"id":5520,"date":"2014-12-13T02:37:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T01:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/?p=5520"},"modified":"2020-12-19T16:20:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T15:20:20","slug":"5520","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/2014\/12\/13\/5520\/","title":{"rendered":"Soy instead of rainforest"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Arrival in Campo Grande<\/li>\n<li>Direct onward journey to the ecotourism Mecca Bonito<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the morning at 7:40 a.m. we arrive quite exhausted, but on time at the modern yet somewhat chaotic one <b>Campo Grande bus station<\/b> at. We want to get something for breakfast, which is not too easy with the monotonous selection. Only pao de queijo and salgados - all sorts of boring, salty, but edible pastries - are offered everywhere. Fortunately, it turns out to be easy to buy another bus ticket and after a good hour of waiting you can continue.<\/p>\n<p>At 9 o&#039;clock we board the bus to the Brazilian <b>Ecotourism Mecca Bonito.<\/b> We spend the time-consuming journey with many stops reading and sleeping. Bump outside <b>enormous soy fields<\/b> past us, which the original forests and savannas had to give way. Since 2013, Brazil is the <b>world&#039;s largest soy producer<\/b>, which is mainly used for the production of oil and flour, but almost half of it is also exported to China (more information in this article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/wissenschaft\/natur\/brasilien-die-gier-nach-soja-frisst-den-regenwald-a-456376.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/wissenschaft\/natur\/brasilien-die-gier-nach-soja-frisst-den-regenwald-a-456376.html<\/a>). The monoculture may bring money to the few landowners, but the ecologically rich areas are completely impoverished. After all, with tourism - which is not beyond all doubt - an alternative source of income is growing, which creates incentives to protect the unique beauty of the local nature.<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon at 4 p.m. we finally reach our hot and humid destination. We take a taxi to the <b>lovely HI hostel<\/b>which will be the next to our base. We spend the rest of the afternoon in the shade, after all we are both totally exhausted from the long journey. We&#039;ll have a quick meal in the hostel before going to bed early.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Arrival in Campo Grande<\/li>\n<li>Direct onward journey to the ecotourism Mecca Bonito<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\nIn the morning at 7:40 a.m. we arrive quite exhausted, but on time at the modern yet somewhat chaotic one <b>Campo Grande bus station<\/b> at. We want to get something for breakfast, which is not too easy with the monotonous selection. Only pao de queijo and salgados - all sorts of boring, salty, but edible pastries - are offered everywhere. Fortunately, it turns out to be easy to buy another bus ticket and after a good hour of waiting you can continue.<br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,820,821,901],"tags":[191,2199,2205,934,936,937,2206,939],"class_list":["post-5520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tagebuch","category-suedamerika","category-brasilien","category-mato-grosso","tag-regenwald","tag-brasilien","tag-mato-grosso","tag-andorinha","tag-overnightbus","tag-mato-grosso-do-sul","tag-bonito","tag-soja"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}