Showing posts with label Pantanal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pantanal. Show all posts

Thursday, April 29, 2010

The Pantanal


The Pantanal is the worlds largest inland wetland and is in south eastern Brazil along the Bolivian border. I went there for 4 days and went for walks and boat rides in the wetlands to try and spot wildlife. I swam in a river with Piranhas and Caiman and slept in a hammock. The mosquitoes were bad but the wildlife was good.

We did a few hikes in the jungle and also a boat ride with our guide Pipinho to spot wildlife.



A Porcupine.


Hyacinth Macaws.

A Caiman.

A Toucan. I found them to be very skittish and hard to get a good photo of.

A Capybara. Its the worlds largest rodent, a vegetarian, and a great swimmer.

We went Piranha fishing. You just need to lower any type of meat into the water and give the fishing pole a jerk to land the fish. They cooked our catch up and we ate it for lunch.



Horseback riding in the swamp.