Ultimate Brazil Wildlife
What you'll see
The journey, one day at a time
Arrive Pantanal
Arrive in Pantanal, met and transferred to your accommodation. The Pantanal offers the highest chance anywhere on earth of seeing a wild jaguar — the great draw of this immense wetland.
To Transpantaneira
Transfer to Transpantaneira. Drive the Transpantaneira for capybaras, caiman and macaws. Roadside ponds and bridges full of Pantanal wildlife.
Transpantaneira
Roadside ponds and bridges full of Pantanal wildlife. The Transpantaneira is one of the world's great wildlife drives, alive from end to end.
To Porto Jofre
Transfer to Porto Jofre. A full day of jaguar boat safaris on the rivers. Search the banks for jaguars, with giant otters besides.
Porto Jofre
Search the banks for jaguars, with giant otters besides. Morning and afternoon boats for jaguars and river wildlife. Nowhere offers more reliable wild-jaguar viewing than the rivers around Porto Jofre.
Porto Jofre
Morning and afternoon boats for jaguars and river wildlife. Long days on the water in the heart of jaguar country.
Porto Jofre
Long days on the water in the heart of jaguar country.
To Piuval
Transfer to Piuval. Open-country safaris for anteaters and hyacinth macaws. A full day of Pantanal mammals and birds.
To Trilha dos Tucanos
Transfer to Trilha dos Tucanos. Feeder and trail birding for Atlantic Forest endemics. Green-headed tanagers and toucans at the feeders.
Trilha dos Tucanos
Green-headed tanagers and toucans at the feeders. The Atlantic Forest is one of the world's great endemic hotspots, and Trilha dos Tucanos showcases it superbly.
To Serra do Mar
Transfer to Serra do Mar. Montane birding for highland Atlantic Forest endemics. Trails for antpittas, cotingas and mountain tanagers.
Serra do Mar
Trails for antpittas, cotingas and mountain tanagers. The Serra do Mar's montane forest holds Atlantic Forest endemics found at no other elevation.
To Ubatuba
Transfer to Ubatuba. Hummingbird feeders and lowland Atlantic Forest birding. Coastal-forest trails for endemics and tanagers.
Ubatuba
Coastal-forest trails for endemics and tanagers. Ubatuba's coastal forest holds lowland endemics found nowhere in the highlands.
Departure
A final morning in Ubatuba — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.
The season changes what you see.
Peak season
The dry season — peak jaguar viewing and the best wildlife access.
Peak season
Prime jaguar season on the Cuiabá river.
Where this journey goes
Hand-picked camps & lodges
Aymara Lodge
A comfortable lodge on the Transpantaneira, well placed for the wildlife drive.
Hotel Pantanal Norte
The main jaguar-viewing hotel at Porto Jofre, at the heart of the action.
Deville Prime Cuiabá
A comfortable business hotel in Cuiabá, the Pantanal gateway, for arrival and departure.
Pousada Piuval
A classic northern-Pantanal lodge in open country, strong on mammals and macaws.
Trilha dos Tucanos Lodge
A dedicated birding lodge famous for its Atlantic Forest tanager feeders.
Pousada Oikos
A simple highland lodge in the Serra do Mar, well placed for montane endemics.
Make it yours.
Add nights, swap a park, extend to the coast — this route is a starting point, not a fixed menu. Tell us how you travel and we'll route the rest.