Eldorado Cuiaba
Avenida Isaac Povoas 1000, (formerly Eldorado Cuiaba) Cuiaba, State of Mato Grosso, Brazil
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Into the Wild
... out.
Morning sun rise and the fresh air brought me into a whole new world as the grounds surrounding our lodge bursted into life. Birds (the red headed Angry Birds) chirped around the breakfast table waiting for food scraps of the hungry tourists, wild Capybaras slowly scrolled across our front lawn possbily on some morning exercise routine, and Caimans woke and yawned loudly in the pond next to the lodge.
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Bike, Boat, and Beasties
... English and Spanish and described how people so long ago were able to find and work gold, as well as silver, platinum, and copper. There were also pottery artifacts on display as well as good information on each of the different cultures the exhibits represented.
On Monday I was having breakfast when Sarah the Stalker showed up (again!). I talked her into doing a cycle tour with me. Four of us from the hostel ended up going, along with 9 other people ...
Bom Dia from Brazil
... if you try speaking Spanish but just make your "o"s longer and make everything more nasal, that can kind of work sometimes.
From Iguassu, we flew to Cuiaba in the northern Pantanal; a region covering 230,000 sq km and home to the densest wildlife population anywhere in the New World. We quickly discovered that the only way to see this region is by parting with an enormous amount of money, which we duly did, and headed south to a Pousada (guesthouse) in the heart ...
Transpantaneira
... hostel (actually different from the one we thought we were going to) in the town centre owned and run by one of the industry tour pioneers for the Pantanal. The owner, who wore a toupee or dyed his hair or possibly both, proudly showed us his Lonely Planet listing and his guestbook with favourable reviews.
When I enquired about pricing for a Pantanal tour, he quoted U$300 each per day! It was the ...
Pantanoo
... so we knew it was a long shot, and sadly we didn’t see any. But we did hop off the boat onto another lodges lookout tower was had really nice views as well. You can really compare the land on both sides of the river – on the transpantaneria side the land extensively cleared compared to the other side which remains pretty much untouched.
Sorry about putting up so many photos – we had to cull them down from about 500! Most were fuzzy photos of birds ...



