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The Pantanal offers some of South America's finest wildlife watching. From jaguars to anacondas, parrots to caimans, this is the place in Brazil to see animals. Choose your season carefully -- come in the dry season for birdwatching, or head there just after the rains for mammals.
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A Taste of Brazil
A short trip to Brazil’s top highlights
Approx. 6 days
Rio de Janeiro (3 days) → Pantanal (3)
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Rio de Janeiro (3 days) → Pantanal (3)
Paraty, Rio & Pantanal Trail
Explore the highlights of Brazil
Approx. 10 days
Rio de Janeiro (3 days) → Paraty (3) → Pantanal (3)
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Rio de Janeiro (3 days) → Paraty (3) → Pantanal (3)
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Pantanal
Explore the world’s largest tropical wetland
The Pantanal covers an area of 140,000 to 195,000 sq/km and is home to monkeys, toucans, macaws and giant anteaters. You can easily spend two or three days here, canoeing, hiking, horseback riding, on caiman-spotting excursions or photo safari.
Pantanal
Birdwatching in the Pantanal
The Pantanal is a birders’ paradise. Look out for the greater rhea, guira cuckoo, chaco chachalaca, black-hooded parakeet and hyacinth macaw, among hundreds of other endemic and migratory species.
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