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Pantanal Slideshow
Pantanal
Travel Blogs from Pantanal, Brazil
Capybara stampede my arse.
This is a top pick! ... , pumas or tapirs?" "Maybe at dusk or dawn, but it's much more difficult." "Giant river otters?" "Sure." I'm in the Pantanal, another of my "must visit one day" places (I first heard about the place when reading John Grisham's "The Testament" ...
Howlin´ good time in the Pantanal
This is a top pick! ... ) we´d set off from Corumba, located by Brazil´s south-western border with Bolivia, on a four-day excursion to the Pantanal, a vast area of wetland savannah covering approx 140,000km2 and renowned for the abundance of wildlife it harbours. We´d ...
The Pantanal
This is a top pick! ... mixed the insides together to make a clear paste which when used to tattoo your skin goes black over the next hour. The Pantanal lacks the excitement of Africa´s big game and food chain, but is very similar to Australia´s Kakadu National Park ( but ...
29 today and bitten on the arse by red fire ants
This is a top pick! ... rang waking us all up, this was well before sunrise, but gave me the opportunity to watch the sun come up across the Pantanal and hear the Howler monkeys in the distance. The morning saw our first trek through grass and woodlands on the way we were ...
Life on the Farm
This is a top pick! ... . As we were debating what to do next, a truck roared down the dirt road to drop off a few backpackers returning from their Pantanal experience. Megan walked up to the driver and said "Are you from Green Track?" Initially he said "No", but for some reason ...
Stalked...By An Alligator!
This is a top pick! ... a little longer in Santa Cruz. To be honest I just didn`t know where to go next. Eventually I plumped to head to Brazil! To The Pantanal, I had to go and see what those Evil Clowns were on about! I had to catch the overnight train to the Brazilian ...
The Pantanal - Day 70
This is a top pick! Left Cuiaba just after 8am to visit the Pantanal, Brazil's famous wetland area situated at the geographically centre of the continent. The landscape of the Pantanal only slopes one centimetre over a single kilometre, so the frequent rainfall ...
Birds, Bugs and Bogs
This is a top pick! ... a sticky combination of sweat, sunscreen, bug juice and mud with a high content of malodorous methane. The resulting scent, Eau de Pantanal, tends to be a significant impediment to conjugal relations. Despite this, I want to go back to visit one of the ...
Hunting for Jaguars
This is a top pick! ... agent in Salvador (who was Italian an office run by a German). We told him we wanted to go to Bonito to see the wonderful Pantanal. However, when we got to Bonito, it turned out that we were not in the Pantanal at all but in the savannah in the hills ...
Toucans and McKaws for breakfast! (Not literally!)
This is a top pick! ... wildlife tends to be concentrated along with the lakes for bird life, etc! One of the most amusing things we experienced in the Pantanal though were the 'nosy cows'...literally...cows who all turned to look at you at the same time in big groups as we ...
Pirahna Hunting in the Pantanals
This is a top pick! ... and I have caught the nature watching bug, we wanted to take it to another level with an organised safari into the Pantanal. It's an enormous wetland where annual rains can cause the water level to rise and fall by as much as 3 metres. Considering ...
Animalia
... the famous Capoeira. After a final evening of surprisingly delicious feijoada (the Brazilan national dish of meats and rice and beans), the stage was set for a new adventure: December 29, 5am - Depart Pantanal for Rio de Janeiro for New Year's ...
The World´s Driest Swamp - The Pantanal
... . After fishing, we went to the farm where we were spending the night. We were sleeping in hammocks, which was awesome. The Pantanal is a giant swamp, apparently the size of France. It was dry season though so besides a few lakes, it was mostly grassland ...
These Boots Were Made For Walking!
... and loads of birds (heron, flamingo, jabaru, parakeets, etc). This included walking through water bare foot! There are anaconda in the Pantanal! I didn't fancy meeting one in the water - but our guide did the whole trek bare foot, so it must have ...
Pantanal
... I got well and truly eaten alive during the first few days, as the mosquitos and ticks had a feast. Most of the Pantanal is privately owned so we popped into ranches as we went along. Saw lots of wildlife including a few Tapir, Ocelot (small cat), Giant ...
Just make the biting stop....please
... long bus journeys (14 hours), we arrived in Campo Grande and booked ourselves onto a 4 day tour of the Pantanal wetlands. When we arrived at our lodge, we were immediately greeted by a large group of current guests that were counting ...
Brazil, The Pantanal
Sun 28.9.08: Brazil, The Pantanal PERSONAL: A 12hr travel overnight by train, then in the morning a 6hr bus to the Pantanal (finally arriving in tropical weather Brazil!). The best way to explore The Pantanal is staying in lodges on "fazendas" ...
The Pantanal, the other wildlife of Brazil!
... it was time to see the other Brazilian "wildlife" in an area called the Pantanal. For those of you who have never heard of the Pantanal (believe me I had not really heard of it) it is known as the best place in South America to view wildlife. It is a ...
Bird watchers paradise
Booked a 4 day Pantanal Tour with Ecological Expeditions, 250RS (100 euro) - camping either sleeping in a hammock or tent. The Pantanal is the worlds largest wetlands about half the size of France. We had heard alot of bad stories about Pantanal ...
Pantanal - Jungle, Critters, and Adventures
Ahhh, the Pantanal - a world of wildlife. The Pantanal is found the southwest corner of Brazil and is a major ecological attraction. Crawling with caiman, swarming with thousands of birds (and mosquitoes), and teeming with exotic animals it is ...
Kolikoo zivalc!!
... hoce - neverjetno mocna je), aligatorja, netopirje, vrsto ptic. Noro! Naslednji dan je bil na vrsti boat trip. Pantanal ravno prehaja iz dezevnega v susno obdobje,zato je pokrajina precej poplavljena, tako da ribe plavajo cisto pri vrhuin lovijo ...
Feb 23, 2011
Capybaras Rule!
... I´d not actually heard of this place before so a brief summary for those of you as well brung up as me. The Pantanal is the world´s largest wetland area, split between Bolivia and mainly Brazil. Not being dense forest it makes it a better place for ...
LILY'S LETTER TO HER FRIENDS ON THE PANTANAL
Dear Everyone We have just left a farm that I want to tell you about. It was a wetland area in Brazil near Bolivia called the Pantanal. This area has animals, fishes, birds and mosquitos which they kept biting me. It is summer there and ...
The Pantanal
Hello! Well we just arrived in Bonito this afternoon and have a few days here. But we spent the last 3 days in the Pantanal which was amazing. The first day we got there in the late afternoon so we just got to hang out in camp(literally hang, we slept in ...
Pantanal - Volunteering
... . Life was simple (just ask Missi about hand-washing clothes!), but full of smiles and laughs too. The school, The Pantanal Center for Education and Research, will be up and running later this year with solar polar, a water filtration system, a ...
Camping in the Pantanal
... thankfully i arrive around 9 am. so i am swarmed by travel agents when i get in who want to take me on a tour of the pantanal, but luckily i had gotten some advice on which one to pick. so i book the tour, buy an airline ticket, have some breakfast, ...
Pantanal: prima gids, vreselijke tour operator
... . Hij was ook onze grote held, want toen we howler monkeys hadden gespot en er heen wilde lopen, lagen twee sissende kaaimannen (de Pantanal versie wordt max twee meter lang, maar goed, een beet van hun zal aanzienlijk meer indruk maken dan een van mij) ...
Animals, Scenery and more water!
... name for a hostel) in the middle of the Pantanal. There is a link at the bottom with all the details on the Pantanal because I'm not able to remember them all. While we were there we did a two hour hike looking for animals, where I lost ...
