Back from pantanal now chilling in Iguaçu

1 month on the trip and one month in Brasil.

day 23- 29: 16 nov - 22 nov 2008

on the bottom of the page you could see some pictures from chapada.

olaaaa, boa tarde. tudo bem?? sou bem, opoco dor a cabeca pelo muito longo viagem (30 horas).

yep, back from the other heaven here in brasil (i think everything in Brasil are heaven). Anyway, pantanal was amazing. in the beginning I was a bit worried, actually geoff and I, but everything turned out very well. hereby my thanks to Joel Souza and family for your hospitalities and great tour. and Alex and Marco & Fatima who gave us a really pleasant time in Pantanal North. yes I went to the northern site of pantanal, from Cuiaba in the state of Mato Grosso. it was about an hour to pocone and after that there was another 3 hours to reached the first pousada. the pousada had a really bad ambience didn´t liked it there. but it was the place where we need to spent 1 day and half for our boat trip and horse ride. boat trip was good we saw alot of birds and a capybara (that was really closed to the pousada). although that was also the first time we met another animal very famous here in Pantanal. I believe the name was : nosquito mosquito. billions of them, luckily they didnt have any malaria parasites.
we also had a night walk to spot some snake and tarantula, we didnt have to walked very long because the italian couples found a snakes and tarantula at their room.

hehe, but we did walked abit to the tarantula territory, and found a big one (with huge fangs). We also spotted the stars, it was a really clear sky and the stars was sonderful. Also when we aimed ourspots to the waters we saw many red eyes poppin out the waters (caymans). boa, the next day we woke aup at 5 o clock for a lil early morning walk. We went to the watch tower to see the sunrise and also to hear the birds and the caymans burping. till Alex woke yup us yelling ´look an anteater´. wow it was an anteater next to us. amazing!! it was also the day that I heard good news from Alex (yayy moving top another pousada) but first horse back riding. really awesome to be gaucho in pantanal.

haha..... lost gaucho

okay after the swiss- german couple (ahumm, third time i met people from Swiss)are arrived, we moved to other pousada deeper in the pantanal to almost the end of the transpantaneira.. on our way we saw lot of caymans and capybara (duhh..). but one cayman lost one leg it was an awesome sight. the next Pousada I really like it. it was run by Marco and Fatima. there is no electricity lines to this part of Pantanal but marco have a generator which supplied a warm water and some Aircon in the evening. next day was another boat trip to the cuiaba river. we spotted some giant otters and some C&C (cayman and capybara). although this place was famous for the jaguar we didn´t saw any of them. well the next day, was also our last we went for a walk in the nearby forest / jungle. saw a horned owl, howler monkeys and brown capuchin. later in the day we ride back in the back of the pick -up back to civilisation. although BIG SURPISE... anaconda (young one) was on the road.. and later JAGUAR. and that was a big jaguar too.. that was a really wonderful closure of our adventure here in Pantanal.

jaguar... the time that i regret, i didn´t bought a better camera

After that i had really long bus trip; de: Cuiaba, MT para: Foz do iguaçu, PR. 30 hours in the bus!!! although from cuiaba to campo grande, I saw alot of emas and also some owls and eagle i hadn´t seen in Pantanal. Tomorrow the wonder of Iguaçu..

Muito Obrigado,

Christiano

WARNING. Anaconda photo on the very bottom ..

the famous woman breasts and hat mountains in the parque nacional chapada dos veadeiros

YELLOW ANACONDA