MAGAZINE VENTURES AND ACTION Of Chuí to Oiapoque - Trekking

Of Chuí to Oiapoque Fotos: I File pessoal/Dan Robson after traveling 8.051 km the adventurer Dan Robson Dias finally it arrived to your final destiny, Oiapoque, on December 30, 2001. The expedition began in Barra of Chuí, on December 31, 2000 and, on those 365 days, he traveled nothing less than 1.938 beaches - walking, on average, 26 km a day and counting numbers and quite interesting histories.

The trip that mixed the study of sporting equipments, tourist mapeamento, understanding of preservation of the environment, researches scientific - through the identification and registration of the plants used by the native ones - and a psychological analysis, went by 17 States and it will turn book: " Sands, 365 days of walk for the Brazilian " coast. To accomplish the day, the former-analyst of systems, 32 years old, it carried in the backs 15 kg of necessary equipments to accomplish the course.

Hut, flashlight, c anivete, kit of pots with little stove, sleeping bag, bottle of water that also served as filter, a papetes pair, stanque - I take out that protects the electronic equipments of the water - filmadora of 8mm, photographic camera, materials of personal hygiene, besides the victuals and some pieces of clothes were among the principal items. The principal balances of that crossing were the solidarity and the demonstrations of affection.

The half of the lodgings was made homes of fishermen, to the seashore, 30% in lodgings and hotels and only 20% in your own hut. A peculiar detail in that walk of more than 8.000 km is the fact of Dan to have walked without using sunscreen. /you used to protect the skin, just, an oil for cellular regeneration in the end of the day, formulated starting from one of the species of plants of Santa Catarina, for the doctor fitoterapeuta Suzumi Aoki.

Another peculiar detail: same going by thousands of beaches, it took only five sea a shower. " The fact of passing for so many beaches ends up making you to nauseate a little of that vision. Besides, it didn't provide me a refreshment sensation, it was as if I was ' assando' ", counted. The adventurer, that escaped twice from the Hospital Emílio Ribas, in São Paulo, for not having to take the 17 necessary vaccines before beginning the trip (I " have ' injection " fobia', said) it just contracted an influenza during all the expedition. Four days it passed in feverish state in Rio Grande do Norte.

The best moment of the adventure was, clear, the arrival to Oiapoque. It had won the fatigue, the house longing, the hours in that didn't have where to get what to eat and all the difficulties of the course. Besides, I could meet the beautiful beaches of Jericoacoara and Camocim, in Ceará, and the Beach of Maragogi, in Alagoas. I accomplished the first part of my project.

Await what it comes thereabout ", it is thrilled. The next lunge of Dan will be 61 days to pass inside the cave Santana, in PETAR, in the attempt of breaking the previous world record, of 45 hours. The objectives of the permanence in the cave will also be to make experiences, as the behavior to the light absence and psychological reactions. * * *Obs: the Hospital Emílio Ribas, in São Paulo, possesses a nucleus that offers free vaccines to who it will travel. For larger information, enter in contact with the Traveler's Nucleus: (11) 3896 1366.