THE ROUTE OF THE JAGUAR
OVERVIEW
A tour for those who want to fully experience the Pantanal. A route focusing on places mostly frequented by the jaguar, where it is easier to catch sight of it.
Accommodations are comfortable and functional.
DETAILS
- Days: 6
- Stages: Cuiabà Airport; Start of Tour in Poconé; Accommodations: Pousada Ueso – Pantanal, Pousada Porto Jofre Pantanal Hotel.
- Tour Number 2
- Conditioni: The cost of the Tour through Pantanal includes transfer to/from Cuiabà airport or town, all transfers mentioned, stay in pousada by full board, daily excursions with a bilingual guide.
All expenses not mentioned in the routes and drinks are excluded.
The tour includes trips by safari open jeeps, when possible.
ROUTE
DAY 1
Arrival at Cuiabà Airport.
Departure for Poconé (The capital of Pantanal); a short tour of Poconé, lunch in churrascaria (not included) and departure for the Pousada “Ueso – Pantanal”.
In the evening, after dinner in Pousada, there is a short night safari, during which you may bump into various animals and nocturnal birds, including crab-eating foxes, tapirs, white-lipped peccaries, raccoons and ocelots.
DAY 2
Departure in the morning for a walk inside the pousada (the entire pousada has an extension of about 700 hectares) where you could appreciate the characteristic caymans of the Pantanal (Jacarè), the Jabirù (or Tuiuiu, the symbolic animal of the Pantanal), the capybaras (the largest rodent in the world) and innumerable bird species.
You will have lunch in the pousada and, in the afternoon, you could go for a canoeing tour along the river nearby; then you are allowed to blissfully fish in the most abounding in fish waterways in the world and where you could see the fearsome piranha.
Dinner and overnight stay in Pousada.
DAY 3
In the morning there is a ride on tame horses from Pantanal inside the Pousada.
Lunch and, in the afternoon, departure for Porto Jofre, where Transpantaneira ends, with some stops on the way to appreciate the various species of aras: the hyacinth macaw, the blue-and-yellow macaw, nesting places of jabirù stork, toucans, families of capybaras, and with some luck the great anaconda and the infamous jaguar (Panthera onca).
You will have dinner and spend the night in the Porto Jofre Pantanal Hotel.
It’s scheduled a night safari in the evening, during which you have got much greater opportunities to see a jaguar, a tapir or an ocelot.
DAY 4
In the morning we will go for a motorboat tour, by which we have got much greater opportunities to bump into a jaguar.
Packed lunch near the river, then back to Pousada for dinner and overnight stay.
DAY 5
In the morning back to pousada “Ueso”.
Lunch in Pousada and in the afternoon we will visit a lookout tower, where you could enjoy a breathtaking surrounding view characterized by sunsets which seem to be painted by an impressionist artist.
Dinner and overnight stay in Pousada.
DAY 6
In the morning there is a ride on tame horses from Pantanal inside the Pousada.
Lunch and, in the afternoon, visit of a gold mining site and some artisan stores in Poconè for the purchase of typical products and souvenirs; Then return to Cuiabà airport in due time.
