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Pantanal Slideshow
Pantanal
Travel Blogs from Pantanal, Brazil
Lions and tigers and bears...Oh My!
... resort after our bush camps...showers, aircon, a pool and hammocks...which are my new found love. There~s wildlife everywhere in the Pantanal, which is roughly half the size of France...over the course of our stay we saw macaws, toucans, deer, capybara ...
De Pantanal, het land van de Toekan
... Pedro. Pedro woont al zijn hele leven in de Pantanal en als hij vrij heeft, gaat hij alleen de natuur in. Kortom, de Pantanal stroomt door zijn aderen. Prachtig hoe je door de bush loopt en Pedro dieren spot, nog voordat de dieren ons spotten en ...
Sao Paulo and Pantanal
... of the company that is joined with the hostel international group (forgot the name). It is a 4 days and 3 nights trip around the Pantanal. We stayed 2 nights sleeping in Hammocks, 3rd night in dorms. It takes a whole day to go to the camp from the city. ...
pantanal and into bolivia
well i made it into bolivia!! after the igacu falls we went into the pantanal. it is an area half the size of france that is just dense wetlands and hoards a mass diverse wildlife. it was the best bit so far. we got on a 4x4 safari for 3 hpours into the ...
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
... a great time to make well informed decisions...). The company advertised the following: - Jeep safari - Pool - Guided trek through the Pantanal - Vegetarian options for food What we actually got: - The last 2 hours of the 7 hour journey into the Pantanal ...
Piranas and ponys
We had time for a quick visit to Brazil so we went to the Pantanal. A huge area of wetlands which is host to lots of wild life from Anaconda and Jaguars to Parana and Mosquitoes. We stayed in a lodge inside the Pantanal for 3 nights. Our first day was ...
The Pantanal
... again we saw loads of Caimans and birds, but much of the same so was a bit boring!! That afternoon we left the Pantanal and got a three hour journey by private bus to Benito along incredibly bumpy roads. Overall it was an excellent experience, especially ...
Hammock Time
The Pantanal: 230,000sq km of low lying wet land and jungle that is home to 650 different types of birds, 80 different mammals and MILLIONS of mosquitoes. We spent three nights in the middle of it all, staying on a horse ranch/hostel with: hammocks for ...
Pantanal wild life adventure
Pantanal is swamp area in Brazil (beside Bolivia). We booked a tour for 3 days with a local guide in a Fazenda (like a Rancho in the middle of nowhere), we were with other people togehter. The landscape is totally different to the amazon forest, the wild ...
Serra Verde Express
One way to travel back from Ilha do Mel was to take a train called the Serra Verde Express. Although it is much slower than the bus and less comfortable it travels up through the mountains to Curitiba and offers some spectacular views over the ...
Mar 24, 2011
Day 139 - 141: Wildlife?
... in Campo Grande and waiting to catch the bus down south to Iguacu Falls - another main tourist attraction of Brazil. What we learnt: - The Pantanal seems to be a rather over-rated experience and really expensive! We prefer an African safari... ...
3 dagen Pantanal
... . Na een busrit van ongeveer 5 uur komen we aan op de plaats van bestemming, de kampeerplaats van ecological expeditions in de Pantanal, ergens tussen Miranda en Corumba. We hebben geboekt voor 4 dagen en 3 nachten in de Pantanal. Na een rondleiding te ...
Moment of Truth - Pirahna swimming
... exactly where we stayed as the Pantanal is the size of France but we were near a small town called Miranda in the Southern Pantanal. Apparently you need to go deeper into the Pantanal (Ie further North) to see more of the wildlife but we had high hopes ...
Pantanal Trip Day 3
... our group was a bit more experienced and told us what to do. It was a nice couple of hours, and we saw sunset over the Pantanal from horseback. We even got Stevette (my horse, which I named Steve before I realised he was a she) and Gemima (Caz's horse) ...
Pantanal Trip Day 2
... right?!). We drove in the 4x4 for a couple of hours, before hopping off at a river. This area seemed to be what the Pantanal wetlands was all supposed to be like in the wet season, but we had visited during the dry season. It was quite marshy around the ...
The Pantanal
So far, this is my favaourite stop. For someone that loves being in an anonymous city with plenty of places to dance and the convenience of late night shopping, I have to say that I also love the peace and solitude that you get being in the middle of ...
The Wetlands
... as they checked out important white slips we received upon arrival/our yellow fever records and then we took a 2 hour bus to Pantanal. We arrived to an amazing hostel, straight out of a catalogue with the outstanding beauty and minus the tourists. It was ...
Birds, bites and caimans
... ? No, today it was finally my turn to be ill. We were getting the bus from Corumba to a resort in the Pantanal. I was very glad that we would be travelling on a smart airconditioned Brazilian bus with comfortable reclining seats and not one of ...
Pantanal
For 4 days we visited Pantanal, a wetland in the south of Brazil with one of the biggest biodiversity in the world. Together with Max from Belgium and Lydia from Holland we shared the experiences of the jungle. We stayed at a nice ranch far out in the ...
Se ya later aligator
... ), heaps of cool looking butterflys and tonnes of gators, which here are called camen (there are almost 20 million just in the pantanal). Because there are so many the guide said to just be careful of where you step, which really worried linz as since he ...
Back to nature
Its been a mixture of relaxation and action packed adventure in the wetlands of Pantal, Brazil. Sadly our request for hotter drier weather was answered and it was as hot as a sauna, but with the added pleasure of mosquitos, and to our dismay they had a ...
Largest Wetlands in the World
... Brazil -- Mother Nature has not exactly been on my side. Opposite the 100-year flood the Amazon received this Winter, the Pantanal is having a moderate drought. As my Dad -- the meteorologist -- would likely say this is a common balancing ...
Brazil!
... nuevo, Bonito, un pueblito al pie del Pantanal en donde supimos realizar muy buenos asados y fiestas y finalmente, el mismisimo Pantanal, una mezcla entre Tigre y Amazonas. Bonito resulto ser una bonita sorpresa. En pocas horas organizamos un asadito ...
Pantanal
... use all warm clothes from my backpack. Voegel ueberall, war das, was ich gesehen habe sobald ich im Pantanal, das groesste Binnenland-Feuchtgebiet der Welt, angekommen bin. Es ist wirklich erstaunlich wieviele Arten von Voegel ich waehrend ...
Scared for my life!!!!
... After our nice relaxing snorkelling in Bonito we travelled by bus to a pick up point to go out to a lodge in the Pantanal Wetlands, where we could go tubing, fishing for pirahna (yes same river!), horseriding or nature watching (heaps of birds and ...
Wildnis pur...
Auf in die Wildnis nach Pantanal! 3 Tage lang in den Dschungel von Brazilien, abgeschnitten von der Aussenwelt auf einer la Faz - einer idylischen Farm mit Kuehen und Pferden, umgeben von Sumpf, 40 Millionen Caimens, Froeschen, Schlangen, Piranhas, und ...
The Pantanal
... themselves at us.... armidillos, anacondas, tarantulas, toucans, caymen, marsh deer, giant white storks (symbol of the Pantanal), giant river otters, hyacinth macaws, capybara (rat bears according to Trot!), eagles, parrots to beat the band...........the ...
Oi Brazil!
Sun 28 Nov Today we took the opportunity to prepare ourselves for the impending 18 hour bus trip to the Pantanal wetlands in Brazil. Leaving tropical Santa Cruz in the afternoon on a public bus without air conditioning, following by several hours on a ...
Drive to the South Pantanal
... of all, rheas, macaws, parakeets, tortoises are on the grounds as well. We had a late afternoon safari with Ullie Braun, our Pantanal guide. He is from East Germany but has lived in Brazil for years. We saw many capybara - mostly swimming in ...