Our travel guides and staff


On all our programmes offered our travel guides are exclusively available to you 24 hours a day. No other participants or groups will be booked to your group, you do the tour alone with your travel guide. Our air-conditioned vehicles are also exclusively at your disposal for the duration of your tour. We have, without a doubt, the best tour guides in the northern Pantanal working for us. They will show you the original landscape and beauty of the Pantanal, without intruding on nature and its cycle. No animals and plants will be touched and put on display by our guides. On principle, we are against interfering with nature and mainstream mass tourism.
 Vilma

Vilma

German-speaking, married with two children, age 54, she was born and grew up in Itapiranga in the federal state of Santa Catarina. After school, she studied education and worked as a teacher. She also runs a small fazenda near Cuiabá with her husband. After an additional training she started working as a travel guide in the Pantanal and, since 2006, has been doing so exclusively for us.

Vilma has an excellent knowledge of the Mato Grosso and the flora and fauna of the Pantanal. This makes her an ideal tour guide for this region of Brazil.
 

Patricia

German-speaking, born in 1974 in Rio de Janeiro, she is married with a child. She trained as an educator and worked in this profession for several years in Brazil. Her family relocated to Cuiabá where she went to the university and got her degree as a travel guide in the Pantanal. Patricia lived in Switzerland for 16 years and speaks very good German.

Patricia is not very experienced as a guide in the Pantanal yet, but she is very hard-working and studies the flora and fauna of the Pantanal in her spare time; she is highly motivated, reliable, amiable and she likes to work with people. She has been working for our company in Poconé since July 2009.
 Pedro Paulo

Pedro-Paulo

English-speaking; he was born in 1969 on a Fazenda in the Pantanal and has practically spent his whole life here. He knows every spot and every stone in the northern Pantanal. After school he began studying biology in Cuiabá, but had to drop out in order to be able to feed his family. He is married and has two children. Pedro Paulo has a recognized degree as a travel guide and since 1999 has worked exclusively for us. Due to his extensive knowledge Pedro Paulo is one of the best travel guides in the Pantanal. A clear sign for this is his being mentioned in the Dumont travel guidebook on Brazil, as well as the fact that many other agencies have been trying to enlist his services.
 Adjalma

Adjalma

English-speaking and 45 years old, he is married and has a son. He lives in Cuiabá, where he was born. At first he got his PhD in law, then decided to train as a licensed travel guide in the Pantanal. He has worked as a tour guide in the Pantanal for 9 years and is very knowledgeable about the local flora and fauna.

His commitment to and enthusiasm for the Pantanal quickly caught our attention. Since April 2007 he has been working exclusively for our agency; he is characterized by his extensive knowledge, his diligence, honesty and reliability.
 

Juan-Paulo

Juan-Paulo speaks English, he is married (no children) and a true Cuiabano. His father is from Belgium and was also a very successful travel guide; Juan-Paulo has clearly learned a lot from him. Until his 17th year, Juan-Paulo accompanied his father on all his Pantanal tours.

He studied tourism at the Escola Técnica Federal de Mato Grosso and started out as an independent tour guide of the Pantanal. In 2007 he first worked for our agency as well, and since 2010 he has been working for us exclusively.
 

Ariberto, called Ari

German-speaking, married, 53 years old, he was born in Rio Grande do Norte (southern Brazil) and grew up there.

After his education he went into the hotel and gastronomy business and ran a successful restaurant for years. He then relocated with his wife to Cuiabá. After taking a class at the university in Cuiabá he worked as a freelance driver and travel guide in the Pantanal for 12 years.

He is very committed, reliable, likeable and an excellent tracker of animals (he can practically smell them). Since June 2009, Ariberto has been working exclusively for our agency as a German-speaking guide.
 

Vicente

Vicente speaks English, was born in Cuiabá, is 56 years old and married with four children. He used to run a fazenda near the Pantanal for several years and is very knowledgeable about its flora and fauna.

20 years ago he trained to be a travel guide for the Pantanal at the university in Cuiabá and ever since worked as a driver and guide for a few local agencies in Cuiabá.

As of 2009 he works as a travel guide for our company. His experience of many years and extensive expertise have made him a valuable co-worker for us and we are very glad to have him on our team.
 

Marcio

He is 32 years old and married, and was born in Cuiabá. Marcio graduated from the Federal University of Mato Grosso with a degree in language with specialization in English and American literature. He has been working as a tour guide in the Pantanal for about 10 years and is our specialist for ornithologists and bird watchers. He is very knowledgeable about the bird world of the Pantanal, but also knows a great deal about the local flora and fauna.

Marcio is also a licensed travel guide for the entire federal state of Mato Grosso, including the Pantanal, Chapada dos Guimaraes, Nobres and the Amazon region.

He has been working for our agency since 2009.
 
 

Adriana

She speaks English, is 42 years old, lives in Chapada dos Guimaraes and has three children. She trained as a teacher for natural science and English, and as a tour guide for the federal state of Mato Grosso as well.

Since 2005 Adriana has been working as a travel guide and has specialised in ornithology, but she is also an expert on the flora and fauna in the Pantanal. Adriana has been working for our company since 2009 too.
 

Rizardo

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Lunch in Poconé

As a rule, our customers make an intermediate stop in Poconé (the last town before the Pantanal) to have lunch in a typically Brazilian family (in case of arrival in Cuiabá by 12:30).

Savour the unique Mato Grosso cuisine by Dona Dalva and enjoy the hospitality.

Dona Dalva and Senhor Antonio are looking forward to your visit.

Note


Our tour guides are among the best in the Pantanal and know their way around the flora and fauna of the Pantanal, as well as many bird species. However, of course our guides cannot know all 650 bird species or every animal or plant respectively by their (Latin) names, since none of them are trained biologists or ornithologists.

Our vehicles:

Our vehicles (5 VW minivans, 1 Fiat Palio Adventure Locker and 1 Fiat Doblo Adventure Locker) are all as good as new, very robust and comfortable to travel in. They are all insured and ideal for the local road conditions. They were bought in 2008 and 2009 (every two years we completely renew our fleet of cars), have air conditioning, a car radio/stereo and a first aid kit. All our vehicles are fuelled with ethanol. In case of larger groups, a van or bus will be rented.