Project Amazon-Bike

Glimpses for the Daily Newspaper of Great ABC

While most of the cicloturistas chooses routes that ally beautiful landscapes and good infrastructure to pedal, others prefer the less favorable places exactly to be faced of bicycle.
It is the adventurer's Dan Robson,que case your house it came back in São Bernardo do Campo in the last 10, after passing more than 70 days crossing the country of West to East for the precarious highway Transamazônica, from Rio Branco, in Acre, until the capital paraibana of João Pessoa.

Although the course among the two capitals is of approximately 4,5 thousand kilometers, the deviations and obstacles took the former-analyst of systems to have to pedal more than 6 thousand kilometers to arrive to the same destiny. That without speaking in the ascents and descents that the own adventurer qualifies as " uncommon ".

And what is worse: in rain time. " the last 21 days were inteirinhos under water. In that time, Transamazônica is practically impassable; very difficult to finish the trip ", it counts Dan Robson, that characterizes the route as beautiful and, at the same time frightening, since it is far away from any place where one can ask for help case it dirties some unexpected.

" Before beginning the course, I caught some information in the 54 Battalion of Jungle of the Amazonian, that guided me with relationship to the five worse problems of the area: the risk of contracting malaria, the terrible conditions of the highway in itself, the assaults, the conflicts among Indians and prospectors, and the animals as ounces and snakes. But the worst of everything is the malaria that can kill if it be not treated on time ".

As compensation the those difficulties and to the lack of help, Dan detaches the infinity of types of fruits that can be picked there same, well to the margin of the highway, as the mango, ìnga, cupuaçu, wild passion fruit and banana, among others. " Of hunger nobody dies in Transamazônica ".