14 nights, 7 stops — jaguars, the pantanal and the atlantic forest.
Pantanal → Transpantaneira → Porto Jofre → Piuval → Trilha dos Tucanos → Serra do Mar → Ubatuba.
Round trip · returns to 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.
Transfer to Transpantaneira. Drive the Transpantaneira for capybaras, caiman and macaws. Roadside ponds and bridges full of Pantanal wildlife.
Roadside ponds and bridges full of Pantanal wildlife. The Transpantaneira is one of the world's great wildlife drives, alive from end to end.
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.
Transfer to Trilha dos Tucanos. Feeder and trail birding for Atlantic Forest endemics. Green-headed tanagers and toucans at the feeders.
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.
Transfer to Serra do Mar. Montane birding for highland Atlantic Forest endemics. Trails for antpittas, cotingas and mountain tanagers.
Trails for antpittas, cotingas and mountain tanagers. The Serra do Mar's montane forest holds Atlantic Forest endemics found at no other elevation.
Transfer to Ubatuba. Hummingbird feeders and lowland Atlantic Forest birding. Coastal-forest trails for endemics and tanagers.
Coastal-forest trails for endemics and tanagers. Ubatuba's coastal forest holds lowland endemics found nowhere in the highlands.
A final morning in Ubatuba — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.
The dry season — peak jaguar viewing and the best wildlife access.
Prime jaguar season on the Cuiabá river.
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 comfortable business hotel in Cuiabá, the Pantanal gateway, for arrival and departure.
A classic northern-Pantanal lodge in open country, strong on mammals and macaws.
A dedicated birding lodge famous for its Atlantic Forest tanager feeders.
A simple highland lodge in the Serra do Mar, well placed for montane endemics.
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