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Trip Report – 12 Day Pantanal Tour with Naturetrek/SouthWild -July/August 2016.

Whilst we have been to Brazil before, this was our first adventure (with Naturetrek, a UK based company), into the Brazilian Pantanal to see Jaguars, and the other wildlife which the Pantanal is rich in, including giant river otter, caiman, tapir, giant anteater, capybara and abundant birds.

Brief Tour Overview.

All the Brazilian land based organisation was provided by Southwild, who’s representatives met us at Cuiabá.

There were 6 guests on our tour, which is much less than the usual group sizes of around 10, or more from previous reports..

Our adventure started in London UK, flying, via São Paulo, to Cuiabá in central-western Brazil. From here we travelled in a mini-bus and then a custom-built safari truck following the Transpantaneira road to Pouso Alegre where we stayed for two nights.

From Pouso Alegre we travelled south along the Transpantaneira Road to Porto Jofre, again in the custom-built safari truck. Upon reaching Porto Jofre, we took to the water and cruised upriver to the Jaguar Flotel (a floating hotel) where we were based for four nights. We followed a routine of morning and afternoon boat safaris to explore the Cuiabá, Three Brothers, Piquiri Rivers and other waterways.

Returning to Porto Jofre we reboarded our safari truck and retraced our steps along the dusty Transpantaneira road to our final destination, the SouthWild Pantanal Lodge, where we spent three nights.

We then returned to Cuiabá to begin the long journey back to London, via São Paulo.

We visited the last week of July, first week of August and the weather was perfect. We had no rain during our time in the Pantanal and the midday temperatures were bearable (still hot though!) There were still a few mosquitoes around but not many, with hardly any seen in our rooms at night time.

Tour Leader Guide

Our tour leader guide was Naun Amable Silva (SouthWIld) - Naun was a really good guide with an excellent knowledge of birds & the other Pantanal wildlife. He balanced his time between tour guests and made himself available for questions in between boat, walks & safari drives, eating with or near the group. A keen photographer himself, he was willing to share tips on camera settings to help the group.

Accommodation.

The lodges were all of an acceptable standard, the first, Pouso Alegre, being the most basic (no mosquito nets, but the room did have air conditioning). The best accommodation was the Jaguar Flotel.

The food was pretty basic but plentiful at all lodges – buffet style with limited choices, one or two meat dishes, fresh vegetables, potatoes, rice & beans.

All lodge rooms, including the Flotel had en-suite toilets & showers.

Wildlife viewing.

Wildlife viewing was mostly done from a safari vehicle with open sides & by boat, with three guided walks (one at the first lodge & two at the last lodge). All wildlife viewing from the Jaguar Flotel was done via boat.

Wildlife viewing was the top priority each day, with little downtime for relaxing… not a problem for us at all as that’s what we like.

Overall the tour was well organised, the guide really good, the accommodation as described and the wildlife viewing excellent.

We have also a trip report, with more detail and many photographs on our website, link below.

http://www.wmtravellers.com/trip-reports/just-jaguars-2016/

I will also provide a link for each block of days in the Trip Report.

Hope others find it useful and interesting.

Well the tour we took is here:

http://www.naturetrek.co.uk/website/tour.aspx?id=41

i'm pretty certain you could probably undercut that by booking things direct and putting a DIY trip together. I looked into it at the start but decided I could not be bothered relative to the short duration we were taking and the focus which was really just 'must see Jaguars.'

Thank you for writing such a great report. I am going with nature treks just jaguar tour in July and am really keen to see this area with its wonderful wildlife. I usually safari in Botswana so this will be a complete change. I am hoping to get some good reference photos of Jaguars for paintings. yours look amazing! Thanks for all the useful advice.

Thanks for the comments. Hope you enjoy the trip as much as we did and you get the shots your after. 😀

""" I usually safari in Botswana so this will be a complete change"""

Oh yes, it will be very different.

In Botswana as in all countries of the southeast of africa, the wildlife will come to you. You just have to drive around.

Not so in the Pantanal. Here you have to search actively for wildlife. Otherwise you'll see only birds, but lots of them.

We just came back from our 4-weeks self drive trip here. All game drives we did with guides. But we were very dissapointed about animal viewing. Maybe the wrong time of the year?

Sure, we have seen a Jaguar and a few other animals, like Otter or Leguans or big Lizards. But not as much as we expected.

i completely second Reise Beate's comments... so that you adjust your expectations...

been 2x to southern Africa (once to private lodge near Kruger... second time on extensive camping trip thru most of Namibia and Botswana)... and you cant begin to compare the wildlife you see there to what you see in Brazil...

Brazil is not land of loads of large wild mammals... and just like leopard spotting can be elusive in Africa, same happens here with jaguars... though some of the top-end guides in northern Pantanal seem to have much better odds of spotting them...

Brazil is great for birds, for those into the very diverse forest species (the average person will think it all kind of looks the same though...)

capybaras are no big deal to find... heck, one can find some even here in the Tiete and Pinheiros rivers in the heart of SP metro area lol;;; they are hardy animals...

this link shows a video with pics of capybaras suntanning near the bike path on the banks of Pinheiros river (there is even a sign for bikers to watch out for capybaras crossing the path...):

https://youtu.be/nt5QDEV8nhk

Hi Rokatoo.

In fairness I think it was Beates expectations that needed management rather than cjnali’s. They have already said they expect it to be a complete change to Botswana.

Probably by putting in the research as we did, and picking a trip with a good chance of getting decent sightings of jaguar, as it sounds like that is the focus as it was for us.

Valiantsontour, why do you write such things? My expectation doesn't need "management".

We where always told, Pantanal is the Serengeti of Southamerica, so we expectet almost the same as in Serengeti. But we learnt, that this sentence only is a good promotion.

Pantanal is NOT the Serengeti, Pantanal is different. And that is what I pointet out in # 14.

This doesn't mean Pantanal is not worth the trip. No, it is worth every day you can stay there, but not with the promoted title "Serengeti of Southamerica".

I wrote a TR, but it is in german, so it is not so interesting here. But on this TR you could see that it was a very interesting trip for us.

Lol...........I think you just answered your own question!

<<We where always told, Pantanal is the Serengeti of Southamerica, so we expectet almost the same as in Serengeti. But we learnt, that this sentence only is a good promotion>>

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Posted this originally on the Cuiaba forum, but maybe better here.

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowTopic-g488170-i20437-k9836130-Trip_Report_12_Day_Pantanal_Tour_with_Naturetrek_SouthWild-Cuiaba_State_of_Mato_Grosso.html

Excellent trip report. Thanks for posting it.

Cheers. It was an excellent trip with wonderful wildlife.

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