Campo Grande, Brazil

... place on the continent to view wildlife. At least it got the highest density. My Norwegian friend, Alf Kåre, and I flew to Campo Grande (one of the three gateway cities to the Pantanal) from Rio, and we are getting pretty excited about what the tour ...

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We arrived early in Campo Grande, the gateway to the Pantanal (well one of them anyway!). As we left the bus we were accosted by the local tour agents trying to sell the benefits of their particular tour. We dutifully took the brochures and found ...

A travel blog entry by eatdessertfirst
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We spent the last four days on the pantanal which is a flooded region of grassland in the Amazon basin. The pantanal is a land where domesticated and wild animals live side by side but a place where man can control them all if he keeps his wits about him. ...

A travel blog entry by brendanlarkin
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... a higher number of unique animal species inhabiting its terrain than I have seen throughout my entire life. Statistics and superlatives: Brazil's Pantanal (swamp) region is the largest inland swamp in the world (half the size of France). For the life ...

A travel blog entry by tysonv
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