Project Amazon Bike: Crossed the country of West to East, leaving Acre to arrive in Paraíba. using the highway Transamazônica. Without paving and without defined socioeconomic function, the highway became a nightmare for 50 thousand mischievous families for the area.
Objectives of the project, 71 days crossing the country of West to East for the precarious highway Transamazônica and to use the highway as a laboratory to open sky, The Itinerary, without doubts none it was the largest adventure with relationship to know if it was possible or the trip not to continue, as soon as I stepped in Acre the first alteration it came in the route of the expedition, the highway that ties Rio Branco in Acre the city of Lábrea in Amazonas it doesn't exist, I have to go for Porto Velho in Rondônia and of there to proceed to the city of Humaitá, arriving in the city went until the 54 Company of Jungle of Amazonas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Beginning, to begin a new project, you are months imagining how it will be, suddenly there this you due to the reality, or better of the unbearable heat, I get off the airplane and I am hot that hovers in the air, I leave São Paulo with your 15 degrees I am me here in Acre with more than 40 degrees.
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Transamazônica, On the 27/08/1972, the government prepared a great solemnity in the middle of the amazon jungle, something that marked the history of the Country. In the morning of that day, the Presidente, the general Emílio Garrastazu Médici, would begin the connection of Brazil of the North to the Northeast, inaugurating Transamazônica.
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The Itinerary, without doubts none it was the largest adventure with relationship to know if it was possible or the trip not to continue, as soon as I stepped in Acre the first alteration it came in the route of the expedition, the highway that ties Rio Branco in Acre the city of Lábrea in Amazonas it doesn't exist, I have to go for Porto Velho in Rondônia and of there to proceed to the city of Humaitá, arriving in the city went until the 54 Company of Jungle of Amazonas, Lieutenant Coronel explains to me the difficulties of arriving to Jacareacanga, to see more...
Objectives of the project, after passing more than 71 days crossing the country of West to East for the precarious highway Transamazônica and to use the highway as a laboratory to open sky, I got to make the residents' study economical partner and test of the equipments
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Transamazônica cost 12 billion dollars!!!
The largest public work of the history of the Amazonian is not the hydroelectric of Tucuruí, but Transamazônica. At least in the federal deputy's Delfim Netto accounting. He affirms that the highway cost nothing less than 12 billion dollars.
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The friends of the trip, during the 71 days in that ventured to cross the country of West to East I had the opportunity to know wonderful people of the which great friendships appeared.
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Pictures of the project Amazon-Bike, of Rio Branco in Acre to João Pessoa in bicycle Paraíba, using with route the highway Transamazônica ", see the regional differences and the beauty that it surrounds the highway tranamazônica (BR230).
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Numbers of the Project Amazon-Bike, later of 71 days of trip, Dan Robson completes the crossing, leaving Rio Branco in Acre 28/11, he concluded the trip in the city of João Pessoa in Paraíba on the 06/02, totaling like this, 4.015,17 Km
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Transamazônica is still unfinished
Highway completes at that time 30 years with 70% of the impassable course of the rains and reduced investment of the Union, it is Surrounded 50 thousand families they live to the margins of the highway that to today league anything to place none.
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Solidarity, to Arrive in a person that you never saw, and you convince her that you will camp beside your house and later to eat lunch or to have dinner close to him, that is a task dificíl, but in some areas of Brazil it is as reviewing old friends.
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The Arrival, I feel the smell of the sea, looks and I don't believe, after 71 days of a long trip I arrive to my final destiny, the coast of João Pessoa in Paraíba, to be more exact, the point more oriental from America, the light of Seixas' Tip, I sight a kiosk of ice cream of Kibon, I didn't think twice I asked for a super ice cream.
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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 you/they 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 ".