Transamazônica 2009

In the pace of advenure

1o, 2o, 3o days - 4o, 5o, 6o days - 7o, 8o, 9o days - 10o, 11o, 12o days -

13o, 14o, 15o, 16o days(end of official route) - 17o, 18o e 19o day (End of expedition)

On the seventh day was raining heavily in the region. This brought more excitement to the participants and makes the adventure more interesting.

The output of Apuí happened in heavy rain at 8:00. The destination was arrive in Humaitá.

Many beautiful scenery during the journey.

In this part of the way there is a huge crater that swallows the road every rain.

Also passed by the Indian reservation and paid a "toll" of R$ 20.00 per car.

Some kilometers ahead, a ferry replace a bridge. This bridge fell due to heavy rains in the region.

Detail: ferry using only manual force to go from one side to another river.

When was close to Humaitá a stretch with lot of mud. This obstacle required a lot of attention and low speed. This transition occurred during the night.

Objective completed, participants arrived at the Hotel in the city of Humaitá. In this hotel, they had contact with members of the Jeep Club of Manaus. They informed the group about the terrible condition of the BR-319.

The eighth day begins the more expected route for all adventurers, the abandoned BR-319.

The initial objective’s day was make a farewell lunch for the argentine participants, Eladio and Glenda. The Argentines leave the group that day, due to commitments in his homeland.

After to supply the vehicles, they followed to a local steak house and celebrated the end of the second stage of Transamazon 2009. They did a little fraternization for the farewell of the argentine friends.

The group left Humaitá at 15:00 pm

Interesting fact: during the fraternization two guys in a BMW and a Fiat Palio asked the group about the possibilities to follow them up to Manaus. This was promptly denied because those cars could not ever get to Manaus in the current road conditions.

5:00 pm after much rain and mud the group had traveled 130 km on the BR-319.

It was time to stop and set camp. The place chosen was a beautiful country house on the roadside, stream, pond and a beautiful porch.

In this place the resident (Mr. Francisco) received the group kindly and gave the porch and the garden of his home for the group mounting camp.

After mounting camp, the group made a small bonfire of fraternization.

During the night everyone heard a pop coming from the direction of the cars. When they check, it was found a big problema - the torsion bar of the Xterra was broken!

Ninth day of expedition, they had in this day a lot of work to fix the Nissan Xterra‘s problem.

It delayed the expedition in 2 days - time needed to find the broken part and bring back to the place of encampment.

The participants wake up soon, raise the Xterra with the Hi-Lift and begin to remove the damaged part.

Later, Daniel (driver of the Xterra) and Sérgio Holanda departed toward Humaitá for find the part.

Coming next to Humaitá they met with the group "Lameiros do Sul" that are also doing the same path.

Before this fact, the participants found a BMW, it was plunged in the mud in the beginning of the BR-319. Yes, those were the guys of Humaitá. They resolved to follow the road, even being warned not to do so.

The BMW was towed to a safe place. Water and food was unhand with them, because they had nothing and had a small child in the car. A great irresponsibility!

Arriving in Humaitá the two participants don’t found the broken part. Sérgio Holanda then called to your friend João Lucena in Porto Velho and ask for help to find the part in this city.

The two participants go toward Porto Velho to purchase the damaged part. During the journey they receive a call of João Lucena with good news, the part was located.

In this day the group offer a special thanks to John Lucena. He is the responsible for the success in locate Xterra's part.

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