Pousada Do Rio Cuiaba
Av Histo Cuiaba 78050-000, Patanal Cuiaba, State of Mato Grosso, 78050-000, Brazil
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Into the Wild
... such as foxes, racoons, frogs, bats, owls and other night birds. See you may think I sound quite pro naming all these animal names, but patience of learning is the key to fully appreciating the natural eco system here.
Having spent a decent amount of time in the wild now including our stay in the Peruvian Amazon, it seems true that humans and animals have a hard time co-existing with each other. Animals flee, ...
Bike, Boat, and Beasties
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I visited the Police Museum on Tuesday morning. This was a little bit odd. The guide was a young policeman who spoke some English. We saw Pablo Escobar's Harley Davidson, complete with gold trimmings, and some mannequins dressed as Pablo as a politician, a prisoner, and a corpse. They had a large collection of firearms, a lot of them confiscated from various people involved in the drug industry, and uniforms and badges from police services around ...
Transpantaneira
... lost momentum after the 140th odd bridge in a region that spends six months underwater every year. As for our desire to travel by boat down the Paraguay River through the heart of the Pantanal, as per our original plan, again we were thwarted. No more boats unless you have a group of 30+ people to charter a vessel. The passenger service stopped running about five years ago.
Our inability to do what ...
Pantanoo
The Pantanal is one of the largest tropical wetlands in the world, and one the best places to see wildlife in South America. We were quite stressed about getting a good guide, as the competition is pretty crazy here. The competitors will make up bad reviews on travel forums about each other, pick up each other's clients at the airport pretending they are from that company, and do whatever else they can to get the business! We went with Pantanal Nature, who were much more ...
Pulsating Pantanal
... we got some wonderful shots of the blue-and-yellow macaws amongst other things. We had a small cup of coffee at the house and then drove back in the rainstorm with lightning in the distance, abandoning our high perch for a seat inside the cabin of the truck.
Sue slept very badly with the humidity and tomorrow night I think we’ll use the air-conditioning despite the noise
THURSDAY 17/2/2011
Up before dawn with a wake-up knock from Roberto and we made our ...


