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Pantanal Slideshow
Pantanal
Travel Blogs from Pantanal, Brazil
Water(less) World
... dug out canoe with my trusty guide, before camping in the wild. I was hoping that this would be repeated in the Pantanal. Like the Okavango, annual rains upstream slowly permeate down turning the low lying land into a shallow sea. This causes animals ...
Mar 16, 2010
The River Runs Wild!
... hopes it’s the last time he has his balls felt at gunpoint! hehe. Once at Campo Grande we arranged our tour to the Pantanal. Once again we were fortunate enough to have a good group with a good mix of people. Our journey there was quite amusing due ...
Campo Grande und Pantanal
... Ueberwindung gekostet!!) In der Nacht auf den dritten Tag hat es sehr stark geregnet und so konnten wir auch das ueberflutete Pantanal noch erleben. Wir sind dann auch mit dem Jeep im Schlamm steckengeblieben und mussten uns von einem Truck aus dem ...
Wildlife in the wetlands
... some wildlife on our trip into the Pantanal - a massive wetlands covering some 230,000 square kilometres of south west Brazil. Our first glimpse of the Pantanal is from the back of a safari truck which takes us 20 km from the highway down a bumpy dirt ...
The Pantanal: Caimans and Capybaras
... candy store was a giant protected reserve teeming with animals ranging from tropical Toucans to 10 meter Anacondas. Before heading to the Pantanal, we stopped in the border town of Corumba, which is where we would have stayed, had the flight ...
Close encounter with a Caiman on the Boat Tour
... in to show you it's safe and has a nice little swim himself. Along the way we also see the rare Toucan and the famous Pantanal Wood Stork, which is a symbol of the Pantanal. We also see a couple of species of monkeys in the trees by the river banks ...
The Pantanal - wish i had my other camera!
... we go for it. Campo Grande itself has no real tourist attractions apart from be ideally located on the edge of the Pantanal. Next morning we wake early afterbreakfast we are ready to go. We pack are bags and we are off again. I didn't ...
The Pantanal
... around 9.45am, after a fairly horrific bus journey in which I think I got about an hour´s sleep, and somehow managed to book a Pantanal tour that left 45 minutes later. After a 5 hour minibus ride we finally got to the edge of the Pantanal, where we ...
Makes Toorsaleen look like Metropolis
The Pantanal is an area of wetlands in Brazil (there are some in Paraguay too) that are preserved. They have all sorts of interesting wildlife including Piranhas and Caimen but more on that later. We were driven to the Pantanal by a van company ...
Chaotischer Grenzübertitt nach Brasilien
Fri, April 10th Gegen 5 Uhr informiert uns Sonia, dass wir bereits seit 4 Stunden stehen. Man versucht einen Bus aufzutreiben, der uns zur Grenze bringt. Um 6 Uhr geht es weiter. Alles Gepäck wird aus dem Gepäckwagen befreit –über die Gleise ...
Piranha fishing, Canoeing und Horse Back Riding
... , zu Pferd und im Boot sehen wir Tukane (unsere Lieblinge), Papgaien und andere Vögel, Affen, Kaimane, Nasenbären und Wasserschweine. Pantanal liegt in Brasiliens Bundesstaat Mato-Grosso und ist mit 230.000 km² Fläche eines der größten ...
Where the wild things are
... us that a tourist once had their toe bitten by a Piranha whilst swimming in exactly the same river. Most of the Pantanal is private farmland (usually cattle - hence the good meat), only a small portion of the south is used for eco tourism. ...
Pantanal - Tues 19th Feb 2008
... boat right up close so that we were literally about a metre away from its face! Two types of alligator exist in the Pantanal, black caiman and speckled caiman. I enjoyed the fishing as it was relaxing and tranquil, with just the sounds of the birds ...
Caymen Alligators & Piranhas
... entire day we only passed one other car, it was so tranquil and so we could fully appreciate the wildlife on offer in Pantanal, Brazil's wetlands We stopped at two different sites to go piranah fishing with these fishing rods made out of bamboo. We ...
Busy Day in the South Pantanal
We had an exciting day today. In the morning, we went horseback riding. There were no animal sightings but we rode through some water deep enough to get wet feet. Mick's horse got stuck in the mud and fell over. He fell with ...
Farvel Bolivia - Velkommen Brasilien!
... film på computeren. Klokken 13.45 åbnede de endelig grænsen så vi kunne få vores papirer i orden og ellers fortsætte mod Pantanal - Et kæmpe stort sump/jungleområde på størrelse med Grækenland! Her kommer vi forhåbentligt til at se en masse ...
In the jungle, the mighty jungle
... were getting with about a foot away from a group of fully grown caymen and seeing an anteater! our second day in the Pantanal was, again filled with activities. In the morning we went horseriding though Charlie´s horse bit one of the other people in the ...
