Campo Grande, Brazil Travel Blogs

Capybara stampede my arse.
Mar 21, 2005 (14 photos)

... place on the continent to view wildlife. At least it got the highest density. My Norwegian friend, Alf Kåre, and I flew to Campo Grande (one of the three gateway cities to the Pantanal) from Rio, and we are getting pretty excited about what the tour ...

Gateway to the Pantanal
Sep 19, 2006 (2 photos)

We arrived early in Campo Grande, the gateway to the Pantanal (well one of them anyway!). As we left the bus we were accosted by the local tour agents trying to sell the benefits of their particular tour. We dutifully took the brochures and found ...

The Brazillian Pantanal
Nov 22, 2004 (4 photos)

We spent the last four days on the pantanal which is a flooded region of grassland in the Amazon basin. The pantanal is a land where domesticated and wild animals live side by side but a place where man can control them all if he keeps his wits about him. ...

bonito pantanal
Sep 1, 2005 (4 photos)

... a higher number of unique animal species inhabiting its terrain than I have seen throughout my entire life. Statistics and superlatives: Brazil's Pantanal (swamp) region is the largest inland swamp in the world (half the size of France). For the life ...

Into the Pantanal
Oct 4, 2005

The overnight journey to Campo Grande was pretty uneventful apart from to say that you pay more in Brazil and don't get quite as much for your money as we did in Argentina!!! And no bingo in sight! Boooooo! The other thing to mention was the thunder storm ...

Back to Campo Grande
Oct 11, 2005

... , checked back into the hostel and headed out for a burger and beers on the streets...it turned out to be a holiday in Campo Grande so everyone was getting absolutely wasted, there were huge speaker systems on the streets and it took great skill to avoid ...

Pantanal
Apr 15, 2008 (28 photos)

... a poor sighting the day before. After lunch I was dropped off aty Buraco Das Piranhas where I had to take a bus back to Campo Grande. I recognised the company Andorinha on my my to Pousada Santa Clara. I believe it actually may be possible to get to ...

Pantanal
Jun 12, 2008 (200 photos)

... 's largest wetland. Pantanal is derived from the Portuguese word "pantano" which literally means "swamp". It is situated in western Brazil in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and extends into Bolivia and Paraguay. As part of the Paraguay floodplain, it ...

Kolikoo zivalc!!
Apr 28, 2006

... je cakal se dnveni safari. Tokrat off-road. Premetavalo nas je sem in tja, ampak divje svinje vseeno nismo videli. Po (ne bom povedala,kaksnem) kosilu samo se pot v Campo Grande, kjer cakava,da bo ura 4 zjutraj, da se odpraviva na letalisce in proti Fozu.

Entry and escape from the Pantanal
Jul 23, 2009 (5 photos)

... didn´t it live up to the name. Despite arriving in the "dry season" it began to rain (thanks to a freakish weather system over Brazil) as we drove deep into the northern regions of the park we were staying at. It didn´t let up the whole afternoon or night ( ...

The Pantanal Reloaded
Sep 24, 2005 (12 photos)

... a strange grin on its face. The Pantanal was exceptionally good for our tans, or so we thought at the time. But on returning to Campo Grande to embrace our first hot shower in four days we realised that our tan was not skin-deep - it was the Pantanal´s ...

Camping in the Pantanal
Apr 29, 2005 (1 photos)

... the fancy bus so its not so comfortable as the last overnight one. the bus stops many many times and i continue the confused "Campo Grande" question over and over, until finally thankfully i arrive around 9 am. so i am swarmed by travel agents when i ...

A long time on the bus
Sep 13, 2008

5 hrs from Bonito to campo grande on the bus.

pantanal
Oct 20, 2006 (20 photos)

From Campo Grande I did a 3 day trip to the pantanal which is a wetland area to the south of brazil near the bolivian border. It´s the end of the dry season at the moment so it´s not really a big marsh or swamp at the moment, it´s pretty easy to get around. ...

A la recherche de l'Arara Azul !
Feb 14, 2008 (8 photos)

... (allez chercher sur une carte, vite !!) se trouve la pousada Eco-touristique Caiman. Cette pousada est située sur une grande exploitation d'élevage (une "Fazenda") de 530 km², comptant 4000 betes. Le propriétaire est un riche brésilien, qui a beaucoup d' ...

Das Pantanal.
Jul 23, 2005

... Flaeche von 230.000 Quadratmetern und ist einfach nur traumhaft-Natur pur! Gebucht haben wir eine 4 tages-Tour von Campo Grande, was nicht sehr preiswert war. Aber Brasilien gehoert generell zu den etwas teureren Laendern Suedamerikas. Von einem sehr ...

I am no Gobshite
Dec 14, 2005 (10 photos)

... . As it turned out he was a nice bloke with a wife (10 years younger than him)and two kids. On the Sunday I was in Campo Grande he invited me to his house for lunch and to talk.Judging by the house and the swimming pool he was definitely no gobshite :-)We ...

Another Bus Bites the Dust!
Sep 19, 2005

... - we were mere amateurs, it was as if some had invested in an amplifier just for this trip. The arrival in Campo Grande has been a welcome relief. We have stayed the night in readiness for our four day ´safari´that departs tomorrow. Apparently we get ...

Familienleben in Brasilien-Campo Grande.
Sep 14, 2005 (5 photos)

... , aber auch anderen Moeglichkeiten kennengerlernt hat, darueber nach, wie er sein Leben aendern kann. Viele Moeglichkeiten bleiben ihm in Campo Grande nicht, denn selbst zum studieren braucht man Geld, was die Familie nicht hat. Mit Telma, der Mama der ...

First leg of the big bus journey
Jun 16, 2007

Scared of Green Track Travel´s response to us being in town. Cannot believe they posted an entry of us being thieves - how slanderous!

Patanal (South Americas Kakadu)
May 29, 2008 (26 photos)

... the way. On the way back it had rained all night and through the morning so the roads where extremely muddy. We slipped and slid all the way back to Campo Grande in a two wheel drive Hilux. Said goodbye to the  boys and was of to Sao Paulo.

Day 211 - Bonito to Campo Grande
Mar 31, 2008

... an hour, so it was a good job we checked. We changed at the right place (after a number of false alarms) and arrived in Campo Grande late at night. We bought our tickets to Cuiaba when we arrived, had something to eat in a cafe opposite the bus station ( ...

The longest bus trip so far
Nov 13, 2008 (4 photos)

Not much to say about Campo Grande really as it is just a stop over for us on our way into the Pantanal. We will say that the bus ride up from Rio was pretty cool. It was 25 hours long which wasn't so great but the sights on the way were fantastic. The ...

Brazilian Pantanal
Aug 17, 2008 (7 photos)

... from the Earth and see the full moon rise into the sky. Our last day was another long one with a drive back to Campo Grande to get our flight where we found that some changes to our itinerary had occurred without us knowing! We arrived at about ...

Reality bites in the Pantanal
Oct 11, 2006 (10 photos)

... everyone! Unlike the plane before us which crashed in the middle of the jungle and which took rescue teams days to find. So Campo Grande? The town is just a hub for travelers going into the wilderness to come face to face with wildlife, i could ...

The Pantanal
Sep 17, 2005 (14 photos)

to be updated (with photos)

Pro Watching
Sep 28, 2005

We stay in a HI hostal next to the bus station. Bus stations are never in the most salubrious of areas and this was no exception. There was nothing to do except playing pool and watching prostitutes.

The Pantanal
Mar 16, 2006 (30 photos)

... , it is roughly the size of France and is said to be the best place to see wild life in South America. We left Iguazu for Campo Grande, which took us 16 hrs. As soon as we stepped out of the bus we were mobbed by agents trying to sell us tours. As you ...

the pantanal
Aug 1, 2006

biggest lowland and wildlife area in south america!

Hell in Campo Grande
Oct 10, 2007

Hell in the Bus Station in Campo Grande