8 nights, 3 stops — the jaguar rivers and the open pantanal.
Transpantaneira → Porto Jofre → Piuval.
Round trip · returns to Transpantaneira
Arrive in Transpantaneira, met and transferred to your accommodation. The Transpantaneira is one of the world's great wildlife drives, alive from end to end.
Roadside ponds and bridges full of Pantanal wildlife. Drive the Transpantaneira for capybaras, caiman and macaws.
Transfer to Porto Jofre. A full day of jaguar boat safaris on the rivers. Search the banks for jaguars, with giant otters besides.
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.
Morning and afternoon boats for jaguars and river wildlife. Long days on the water in the heart of jaguar country.
Long days on the water in the heart of jaguar country.
Transfer to Piuval. Open-country safaris for anteaters and hyacinth macaws. A full day of Pantanal mammals and birds.
A full day of Pantanal mammals and birds. Piuval's open country is superb for anteaters, hyacinth macaws and general Pantanal wildlife.
A final morning in Piuval — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.
The dry season — wildlife concentrates and the road is passable throughout.
The drying wetland, lush and bird-rich.
A comfortable lodge on the Transpantaneira, well placed for the wildlife drive.
The main jaguar-viewing hotel at Porto Jofre, at the heart of the action.
A classic northern-Pantanal lodge in open country, strong on mammals and macaws.
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