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Pantanal Slideshow
Pantanal
Travel Blogs from Pantanal, Brazil
Adventure in the Pantanal
... humidity, lots of rain and irritating mossies with 50 bites alone on my back as evidence (relentless, they bit right through my shirt) we were ready to leave the Pantanal behind and head to the idyllic beaches of Brazil's southern ...
You say Tuiuiu, I say Jabiru.
... ;Just south of Pocone, we took pictures of the large wooden gateway on the edge of town announcing "Here begins the Pantanal." Unfortunately, this is also the point marking the demise of the Transpantaneria, as the asphalt highway quickly is reduced ...
Pantanal - cowboy country - Carolyn
... back on top of the world. Our guide, Michael ( a lovely young man of 23 who spoke excellent English – his father a Pantanal guide before him had married a lady from Wales so he has lived in Wales for 2 ½ years) had really given them a ...
Mosquito heaven
... without lisence and tyres bald and and and...... So rant over. Campo Grande did not have much but the transport to the Pantanal. 4 days of pure heat and animal watching, it was a very good experience. Now first of all, if McDonalds were to feed ...
The Pantanal Part III
... for my towel, my ISIC card (difficult to get discounts here anyway) and (almost) my watch. Today I completed my tour of the Pantanal with a day safari. We went on jeeps a little out from our hostel and then waded through knee-height water to get to the ...
Everybody wants to be Alex
... it is beautiful here. It was way better than Foz. I can´t wait to see more wildlife. The roads to the Pantanal were terrible. A bit like sitting on one of those power plates in the gym for 3 hours!! Should have worn a sports ...
Wildlife in Pantanal
From Rio, a 24 hours bus drive brought us to another world: Pantanal! This region, located in the South-West of Brazil, is famous for its fauna and flora; some travel guides even say that it is better than Amazonia to see wildlife! Our lodge was lost in ...
The Brazilian Wetlands...
Our first stop in Brazil was the Pantanal which are the wetlands - fortunate as apparantly its been raining for 10 days here... but its hot now thats all that matters. Had a 3 hour ride down a bumpy potholed mud road on this cattle truck which has been ...
Mud and mosquitos - 3 days in Pantanal
... and out, walking, on horseback, in the truck, day and night, I had a full experience of the Pantanal wetland in Brazil. Pantanal was by far the hardest part of the trip with zero privacy, hammock beds, extremely hot and humid ...
Fun in the jungle!!
... chico get your line back in'!!! we were well fed with fish for dinner that night! The next day we did a boat trip around the Pantanal, it was just coming out of the wet season so it was still quite flooded and we could see the lines on the trees where ...
The Pantanal!
... nts in the pants´, but suffice to say we were glad to roll out on the dirt tracks again at 6am - destination The Pantanal. The Pantanal is a tropical wetlands. This one is the largest in the world, bigger than the size on england. ...
Pantanal
... trip where we saw Capybaras, more Caiman and lots of Kingfishers. The late afternoon was a jeep safari into the depths of the Pantanal. We got to see a few Toucans, Macaws and even the arse of an Ocelot, no Anacondas or Jaguars though. Finally going to ...
5 days in The Pantanal
5D/4N in the Pantanal region of Brazil. Just adding photos for now and blog ...
Auf ins Pantanal
... Größe Deutschlands und einem minimalen Gefälle der ideale Ort für temporäre Gewässer, Artenreichtum und Rinder. Das Pantanal kennt keine Jahreszeiten in unserem Sinn. Hier gibt es lediglich die Trockenheit, steigendes Wasser, stehendes Wasser oder ...
Im Herzen der Wildnis
Unsere Tierbilder sind hier zu finden: http://brasilienexkursion.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/tierisches-aus-dem-pantanal/ Tag 1 Das Camp war also aufgebaut. Es bestand aus mehreren Zelten, Hängematten, sowie einer Feuerstelle. Nach der ...
The adventures of Tarzan and Jayne
... the Jungle Trip we had booked. We met the rest of the gang at the office where we began the journey into the Pantanal area. This area is a specific type of wetland, a perfect habitat for many different species of animals-specifically the Black Anaconda ...
The Pantanal
The Pantanal It would be easiest to describe the Pantanal as a jungle / wetland, complete with torrential downpours, the highest density of wildlife in the known world and more mosquitoes than you can shake a stick at. The first day of our 4 ...
Hoping the piranha would bite the right tackle
Well our trip to the Pantanal wasn't quite what we were sold but i did enjoy what we saw. There were four of us leaving Campo Grande, two girls from england, Sarah and Laura were in our group. They were absolutely lovely and it was nice to be able to chat ...
Another airplane ride
... the wildlife and vegetation. We will arrive at the Pouso Alegre Lodge which is in the middle of the Flooding Fields (Low Pantanal). After lunch we will hike the surrounding Swampland looking for birds. After dinner we will have a night safari when we'll ...
More cold nights
Despite the intense heat throughout the day, hot enough to make our tours early morning and late arvo ones, the nights were as cold as any we have previously encountered. We could have stayed in a lodge but thought the expereince in the shacks in ...
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Mar 17, 2010
Mar 19, 2010
More Piranha then you can feed a Caiman
... don't want to get back on..... But first the Pantanal . So we left Porto Velho heading south for our long journey to the Pantanal. Bordering with Bolivia and Peru the Pantanal is a vast wildlife area covering 230,000 sq km and home to 650 species of birds ...
Alligators, more alligators & a lot of mosquitoes
... us. Eventually we get dropped off on the side of a dirt road next to a shack, which is apparently the tourist office for the Pantanal!? We are then picked up in a pick-up truck by our guide for the next few days - Ellias. He then tells us ...
The Pantanal!
... and said hello to Thomas, who will take us all the way to Rio. We boarded our bus and headed into the Pantanal, a huge national park inhabited by all forms of wildlife mainly consisting of birds, but also thousands of alligators, and mammals specific to ...
Where is the Jaguar?
... we only just missed it then? I don't want to paint the wrong picture here because we actually had an amazing time in the Pantanal. Although we didn't see the Jaguar there was plenty of other wild life including, caymans, toucans, and macaws. We even went ...