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| Adventure Pantanal |
| What: |
An authentic pantaneiro adventure in this unique area of Brazil, which includes gentle 5 kilometer a mile, downstream kayaking and hiking trips through an intriguing environment that features an astonishing array of wildlife. No other place in the world can match the Pantanal for moment-by-moment wildlife excitement; and it is a nature lovers dream.
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| Dates and Rates: |
There are various pricing options, depending on the length of your trip, as follows: The dry season is April through October but the trip will be offered year round. Prices include all transfers, accommodations, meals and activities. We are now offering a rugged version of this trip involving four nights of the ultimate wilderness camping, a trip recommended only for those willing to endure the hardships of camping where no man or woman has gone before.
Option A: 6-days/5-nights, $1340 U.S. /1100 E /747 GBP per person, double occupancy
Option B: 7-days/6-nights, $1,585 U.S. /1399 E /882 GBP per person, double
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Option C: 7-days/6 nights: $2190 U.S./1785 E / 1210 GBP per person, double occupancy
Option D Combines Option A with 1-day/1-night in Campo Grande*, $1482 U.S. /1215 E / 825 GBP per person, double occupancy
Option E: Combines Option B with 1-day/1-night in Campo Grande*, $1720 US /1410 E / 960 GBP per person, double occupancy
Option F: Combines Option C with 1-day/1-night in Campo Grande, per person, double occupancy.
* Overnight in Campo Grande is recommended for those who wish to get their land legs back after a long flight.
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| General Description: The Pantanal is still one of the world's most pristine environments. Kayaking gently along the Correntoso River and local waterways is an ideal way to feel the abundant wildlife that inhabit this special place, including herds of capybaras (giant rodents), wild pigs, marsh deer, rheas (flightless birds), magnificent jabirus storks, caimans (South American alligators) by the thousands, pink spoonbills, blue hyacinth and multi-colored macaws, parrots and hundreds of other species of birds. Hiking tours offer views of anteaters as well. Morning kayak trips (about 3 – 4 hours) suitable for non-experts are generally followed by hiking, driving safaris, and visits to local attractions during the afternoons. Our option C invites you into wilderness area which is so wild that you have a good chance of hearing the Puma roar, seeing the anaconda, the wild boar, marsh deer and animals that have rarely shared their locations with human beings. The camping option is strictly for kayakers who can brave the wilderness area. Radio communication, guides and cooks will accompany you on this version. Please be advised that life in the Pantanal is life in the wild even when staying at pousadas, life at wilderness camps will be an adventure unlike any other you have ever taken. |
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| WHAT TO EXPECT: |
| Getting There : |
| Arrival at Campo Grande Airport which is an hour and a half flight from Sao Paulo. Guests can spend a night in Campo Grande or transfer directly into the Pantanal. Those of you who are flying for long hours may wish to overnight in Campo Grande before starting your trip to the Pantanal. |
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| Room and Board : |
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Lodging is provided in three different comfortable ranch houses/lodges (Pousada dos Monteiros -São Roque and São João farms, Pousada Ararauana, and Pousada Campo Lourdes) with en suite bathrooms. The food is delicious and ‘easy to take', with some meals at local fish or barbeque restaurants, and can be designed to cater to a variety of diets. Gracious hosts will make you feel right at home, and the service is strictly first class. |
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| Weather : |
During the months of April through October (Fall to Spring in the Pantanal) the days will be moderately warm, but the evenings are often cool enough to require a light jacket. This is the dry season, and so will generally be rain free. During the rainy season temperatures rise, some afternoon rains but more water to row through temporary rivers with an outstanding green vegetation all around. |
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| ITINERARY |
Sample Itinerary: For Option A and Option B |
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Following a morning arrival at Campo Grande, guests are taken on a tour of the city, with a short stop to visit local crafts shops. Lunch is provided at a local fish or barbeque restaurant and then depart for a 220 km. drive (3½ hours) by pick-up truck, or a quicker (45 minutes) plane ride to São Roque farm. A short walk around the homestead and local countryside, and it's time for aperitifs or a selection of juices by the pool before dinner. Overnight at São Roque farm (Pousada dos Monteiros). |
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After an early morning pantaneiro breakfast, guests depart by a 4X4 safari vehicle for São João farm (36 km.), leaving the mountain range and entering the lowlands. We safari through temporary rivers -lagoons- stopping at the Babaçú outstation for juice or coffee. Lunch is served at São João farm. During the afternoon, guests are offered a choice of taking a boat ride through the wetlands, or kayaking upstream to the lake where the Correntoso River begins. Kayakers will row [paddle] next to alligators, capybaras, jabirus, spoonbills, etc. all living together. The return trip ends at the bird dormitory (a place where thousands of egrets spend the night). Night spoting in a 4x4 safari vehicle. Dinner and overnight at São João farm (Pousada dos Monteiros). |
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Today, guests kayak from the bird dormitory down to Porto. For lunch, guests enjoy a pantaneiro barbecue under trees in the wetlands, followed by a short nap in hammocks. Next we safári in a 4x4 vehicle to Cumbaru outstation, passing through temporary rivers , which is populated by a diverse community of birds, ducks, deers, wild pig, capybaras and through forests, fields and pastures with cattle. Guests dine and spend the night at São João farm (Pousada dos Monteiros). |
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The morning is spent kayaking down the Correntoso past a diverse landscape of open fields, swamps , to margins, full of Cambará trees and lush forest scenery to Pousada Ararauana, which belongs to Uniderp University. After lunch, guests will visit a Permanent Nature Exhibition and to a tower 16 meters (50 feet) high. Hyacinth macaws fly over head. Dinner and overnight at Ararauna Pousada. |
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Kayaking along the river through forested terrain down to Pousada Campo Lourdes. In the afternoon, safari through vazantes – an area marked by open fields full of wild life. Dinner and overnight at Pousada Campo Lourdes. |
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For guests on the Option A plan, return to Campo Grande after breakfast. Those lucky travelers staying on, enjoy an early breakfast and then ride back to São Roque. A hike along red mountain escarpments in the Maracajú range to gasp at the Pantanal spead out more than 2000 feet below (2½ hours up and 1½ hours down) may be challenging, but the amazing views make this trek worth the effort. A late lunch back at the farm is followed by an afternoon of rest and relaxation by the pool. Dinner and overnight at São Roque farm (Pousada dos Monteiros). |
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Breakfast and departure for Campo Grande. |
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| Option C: Expedition of Correntoso River. Complete Isolation from Civilization |
| Day1: |
Arrival at Monteiros for lunch.
Afternoon: rowing up to the spring of the Correntoso. Overnight at Monteiros São João farm. |
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Departure from São João farm rowing through open fields -Pantaneiro barbecue under tree grove –hammock rest. Afternoon kayaking through forest vegetation. Overnight Camp. |
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Rowing in forest vegetation up to Campo Lourdes port for lunch. Afternoon rowing through typical Pantaneiro lagoons
Overnight camping on last dry margin of the river. |
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Final 8 kms of lagoons entering the rapids zone. The open fields around the lagoons now become closed forests with many fallen trees,that close the river. In at least 10 places kayaks must be carried on shoulders through the forest back to the river.
Overnight: camp next to encounter of Vazante Santa Clara and the Correntoso. |
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Rowing 5 kms through “Jurrasic Park”, completely isolated place with astonishing sceneries. Lunch stop. 4 kms up to the delta of the Correntoso and rio Negro.
Overnight camp at the delta. |
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12kms up to Baia Negra farm where a welcome barbecue will be ready on the sandy beach margins of the rio Negro. Overnight at Monteiros. São Roque farm. |
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Morning leisure rest at the pool. Departure to Campo Grande. |
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| We provide all transfers all meals, tents, sleeping bags, hammocks, bee protection clothes, sun protectore, insect repellent, pantaneiro straw hat, maps, GPS, radio communicators-guide and cook with Option 5 |
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