Campo Grande
Travel Blogs from Campo Grande, Brazil
Until the morning when I travel to the camp site..
I have 2 roomates . We went to imbibe and sample local cuisine. Brazilians are FANTASTIC! There were loud churchbells this morning across from the hotel-so I went to church. So far I love ...
More birding and a terrestrial safari!
Birding on foot and then bus departure for a terrestrial safari along the Transpantaneira park road that crosses many diversified environments, which justifies many stops to observe examples of the local fauna and flora. Arrival at the Canto do Arancua ...
Transpantaneira km 0
Early in the morning after a big breakfast with Alessandra and Nobu we leave Poconè on the sturdy blue Toyota of Pantanal Trackers: the burro xucro, that means a mule that has not been worked out. After a while the paved road abruptly ends and a ...
Karma!? Womit habe ich das verdient???
... bereits nach 18 Uhr (incl. 5 Stunden Zeitverschiebung) und dunkel. Sonntag: Um 2:20 Uhr geht mein Flug Recife/Campo Grande. Zwischen gegrillten Wachteln an einer dubiosen Straßenecke zum Abendessen und der Taxifaht zum Flughafen um 0 Uhr liegen ...
Biologie Exkursion mit der Uni Tuebingen
Jo ich bin hier gerade in Campo Grande und wollte noch kurz Bescheid sagen, dass ich morgen meine beruehmte Exkursion mit den Biologie-Studenten der Uni Tuebingen und dem Professor Rainer Radtke starte. Morgen gehts ins Pantanal - das groesste Sumpfgebiet ...
The Work
... explain things to us slowly and concisely so we will understand. Ellen is a Brazilian of Chinese descent. Her grandparents came to Brazil when they were very young. They ventured into a new frontier where they had no family or friends. Mara makes her ...
'No Step on Caiman, look into water'
We forgot about the impact of timezones and as a result had to watch some terrible Brazilian tv for an entire hour as we thought our bus to the pantanal was very late. It was a day or 2 before we realised what had happened! So before we knew it the roads ...
Pantanal here we come!!
... from the tour company, he brought us to the hostel which was great because the buses here have turnstiles, not made for backpacks! Campo Grande looks more like a cross between the wild west and the African Savannah, red soil, no jungle, just flat with ...
“Argentina is beautiful, except they’r
... Curitiba just as the sun is rising from behind the velvet winter mists and bizarre monkey-puzzle pines, and I transfer to a flight to Campo Grande, while the girls continue onwards to Manaus and the Amazon. I kill a few hours in the Campo Grande airport ...
I h8 buses...
... be in Peru for the start of May, we have to keep moving. Oh well! Although, I´m not even half way, Brazil is a definite reccommendation for anyone reading this. You could do three months here alone! We´re off to some swamps and ...
Pedal Boating bird trip and maybe a horseback ride
In the morning we will have a silent pedaling boat trip. In the afternoon we will look for birds in a dense forest (horses optional). Overnight at Canto do Arancua lodge with night safari to look for nocturnal birds and mammals. ...
Pantanal and Iguazu Falls - At one with nature!
... our way inland to the Pantanal, which is the worlds biggest wetlands, home to thousands of animal and plant species. The tour started in Campo Grande and we made our way 4 hours into the outer Pantanal, before boarding a Back of a open ...
Pantanal
So from Rio we had another overnight bus journey to get to Campo Grande from where we headed to our Pantanal experience. For this we had a 4days / 3nights package where we stayed at a Pousada (Santa Clara) and from here we had 2 activities daily. The ...
Aangekomen Campo Grande
Vanuit hier gaan we een excursie naar de Pantanal maken en hierna gaan we naar ...
one night in Campo
... We leave 'Muito Bonito' to head off on our next leg, aiming for the northern end of the Pantanal (near Cuiaba) in 2 days (via Campo Grande for a night). The 'Cruzeira do Sol' bus left Bonito 9am & arrived in Campo Grande at 2.10pm. There is a HI ...
Actually made it to Campo Grande
So on the bus trip from Iguacu to Campo Grande we have to change bus half way. Sure thats fine. Before we changed bus we got stopped at a police checkpoint for 2 hours while they searched the bus. Great. Apparently the bus came from Paraguay so while ...
A slow way home
The night before we had talked about another change in our tour-plans. Originally we were supposed to sleep one more night at Carmindo's, leave at dawn, make the whole boat trip to Porto Jofre and drive through to Cuiabà all in the same day and in a ...
Second day on the rivers
I wake up at 5 o’clock, Julinho is already busy around. After a quick shower and breakfast with Maria while we prepare our meal for the day, we leave for another day on the rivers. It’s very hot already and luckily I’m 'incentivated' to ...
Boring as bat shit
This is another entry to which there is no point. Spent last night piss farting about trying to organise buses and th best i could do was get an 18 hour bus tonight to Brasilia. which meant the day had to be spent here. This place is only sround because ...
Pantanal Tour
... about a week. So everyone got tattoos and went home in the afternoon. Was a good trip, unfortunatelly didn't see much wildlife. Stuck on where to go next, so going to spend a night at the hostel in Campo Grande and maybe go to Sao Paulo again ...
to the pantanal
Went to the pantanal for a few days, Campo grande was gay. saw lots of animals. went piranha fishing. dont feel like writing anything else ...
Long waits for a bus in a humid Pantanal city
... would take. We got on the flight which stopped over at Sao Paulo which as normal was raining when we arrived. We then arrived at Campo Grande and got a cheap cab directly to the bus station of the city. From there we where told the next bus to Corumba on ...
Pantanal can be wonderful, choose a good company
To the people travelling to the southern Pantanal Campo Grande: The Office Pantanal Viagens and tourism doesn't operates tour at Santa Clara Farm any more. It operates tours at the fishing resort at the very beginning of the park road to a place called ...
Pantanal
Enjoying our last few weeks, in Brazil now. Just had a fantastic few days in the Pantanal where we saw loads of interesting wildlife (see pics). Think of Yanomamo, Bonaly people! Iguazu Falls were very impressive. We had a great time in Buenos Aires ...
The Pantanal, Matto Grosso, Brazil
... of South America resemble business class airline service) and a Brazilain time zone later we find our self in Campo Grande a city of ..... in the South East of Brazil nearing the Bolivian border, It´s seriously hot ou here! We check in with Ecological ...

