Plans Are Made

I am taking a trip to Brazil for the last two weeks of July 2023. Traveling with two friends and a guide.  We have plans to see jaguars, giant anteaters, tapirs, capybaras, spider monkeys, giant river otters, maned wolves, Capuchin monkeys, and a myriad of colorful birds.

We will be visiting three of the six Brazilian biomes.  We will spend two days in the Atlantic Forest, four days in the Pantanal, and three days in the Cerrado.

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The Atlantic Forest is composed of a series of ecosystems with very different structures and composition of flowers, as well as the climatic characteristics of the region where it occurs, having as a common element the exposure to the humid winds that blow from the ocean.

* First stop is Trilha dos Tucanos where I look forward to feeding brightly colored birds with one hand and drinking a cup of delicious Brazilian coffee with the other.

The Atlantic Forest (click hyperlink to the left to view video)

The Pantanal an alluvial plain influenced by rivers that drain the basin of the Upper Paraguay, where it develops a fauna and flora of rare beauty and abundance. This ecosystem is formed by largely sandy terrains, covered by different physiognomies due to the variety of microregions and flood regimes.

We will be driving on the Transpantaneira Highway, a road that crosses the Pantanal, in the state of Mato Grosso in Brazil. The road is a link between the city of Poconé and the town of Porto Jofre. It's 147 km long and crosses no less than 122 wooden bridges.

* Our intinery includes two days at the Pousada Rio Claro and then two days on the Panoramaic Houseboat.  

The Cerrado presents diverse regions, ranging from clean fields devoid of woody vegetation to a dense tree formations. Its climate is particularly striking, presenting two well-defined seasons. The Cerrado is made up of grasslands, Savannahs and dry forests. It is the second largest biome behind the Amazon in South America. It covers around 21% of territory in Brazil and is located in the highlands of central Brazil.

We finish our adventure with three days at SouthWild Wolf Camps. A four-hour drive from Brazil’s Barreiras (“BRA”) airport leads to one of the most wildlife-rich tropical dry forests in the New World. Here, at SouthWild’s two “Wolf Camps”, they offer the world’s only guaranteed, close-up viewing in natural habitat of Maned Wolves, an endangered predator that is the tallest and most elegant wild canid in the world. Two other global exclusives at our Wolf Camps are a flock of 12-25 Hyacinth Macaws foraging on the ground at only 8-15 meters and a troop of 10-15 Bearded Capuchins using their own special hammer rocks to smash rock-hard palm nuts on sandstone anvil rocks.

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Here is a copy of our itinerary...

Brazil July 19 - August 1, 2023 Itinerary

I look forward to sharing our stories and photographs.