Brazilian Pantanal

If you have less than a week and want to see mammals unique to South America, don't go to the Amazon. Although the Amazon is home to many wild animals, it is really too big! In other words, the animals are scattered, you need to spend a lot of time chasing animal tracks, and you may have no harvest at the end of a hard day.

The only things I saw during my week in the Amazon were 🦥 sloths, 🐒spider monkey, and howler monkey, all of which are most likely to be found in the Costa Rican rainforest, which is far more accessible than the Amazon.

Of course, if you're not interested in mammals, the Amazon is worth visiting 🐦 bird lovers paradise, in addition to hiking in the rainforest and close contact with boa, swimming with pink dolphins in the Amazon River is also a feature of the Amazon

For the animals, I recommend the Pantanal, which many people may not have heard of, but I only learned from talking to people while hiking that it is one of the best safari destinations in South America.

I stayed for 6 days and 5 nights and saw:

Jaguar (Highlights of this tour)
Capybara (big capi, small capi, groups of Capibala)
Anteater (cute)
South American tapir (adorable)
Jabiru stork (pantanal for animal)
Purple and blue macaws (having a loud call that doesn't match their appearance)
Caiman (the main reason why you are afraid to play in the water when you are in a boat)
Cougar (not actually seen, but left suspected cat paw prints when he took the lodge's piglet in the middle of the night)
And all kinds of monkeys.

The animals see a lot but most of the monkeys are far away at the top of the tree and some occasionally climb down. sloth is also at the top of the tree. Toucan's everywhere. Vultures chase dogs. One of the best walks was after the rain, guide walked in the first, I second, male ticket walked in the last, he suddenly jumped up and shouted snake snake snake! I looked back for five minutes and didn't see where the snake was. It's the same color as fallen leaves! Then I saw toads and turtles and so on.

Our guide really, wearing flip-flops and carrying a machete, went into the rainforest to follow his own backyard (i.e., his own backyard), chopping all the way.

One day was a three-hour boat trip to camp in the rainforest. The campsite was set up in a rain tent, we took our little hammocks, and the cook took his freshly caught piranha, grilled it over the fire, and woke up to howler monkey howling. I feel wild (I don't)

I usually read books in front of the hut, played football with the villagers, and then went for a swim in the river on the last day, watching the sunset and sunrise, and didn't want to leave. Everything but the heat and the mosquitoes!

Recommended travel season
The dry season from June to October is the best season to watch jaguars, the lack of rainfall causes the water level to drop, the riverbed is bare, you even just need to wait for rabbits near the water source to see jaguars and other animals coming to drink water, of course, accompanied by high temperatures above 40 degrees 🥵 and high prices

Travel in the rainy season and you can enjoy the same swampy scenery and pleasant temperatures as in where the dadcraws sing, but it's not so easy to spot jaguars, and there are endless mosquito attacks 🦟

Transportation/tour method
✈️ Fly to Campo Grande (Southern pantanal) or Cuiaba (northern pantanal), I chose the northern pantanal area, where there is a greater chance of seeing jaguars.

As there is no public transport to the pantanal, you can take the 🚩 all-package tour from Campo Grande/ Cuiaba, or 🚗 hire your own car and then pay to join the Safari organised by the lodge.

📝 Book a package tour Find several travel agencies to compare the price/itinerary, give play to the subjective initiative to negotiate prices, don't book directly
Lodge drinks are not cheap, alcoholic friends remember to prepare in advance.