Tour 11: all in one package14 days/13 nights (only from April - November) |
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1rst to 3rd day (2 nights): Chapada dos Guimarães
You fetch our guidebooks from the airport in Cuiabá and journey in the air-conditioned minibus to Chapada dos Guimarães. You spend two nights in the Pousada Penhasco and experience the single beauty of these panel mountains there. After the breakfast visit of the National park. During the walk by the highland one has the opportunity to take a bath under one of the many waterfalls. With a height of 86 m to a majestic canyon this one fells Noiva visit the cave Casa de Pedra (with an underground river), view of Morro de São Jerônimo (860 m), the highest waterfall the region. |
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The Chapada dos Guimarães which is being like a plateau and rugged forms the watershed the Amazon between the river systems, and the Rio Paraguay this one as a Rio de of la Prata leads into the Atlantic in Argentina. Waterfalls and taken so together and the Chapada achieves underground grottos, bizarre rock sculptures, plateaux, with 835 metres over the sea at the mountain of São Jerônimo, exposed to the heat and also the cold, all this offers his highest point, green ravines tropically thickly covered with vegetation, the Chapada an impressive picture the Cerrado of Mato Grosso. The town of the same name, about 70 km north of Cuiabá, is located in the centre. The oldest building in the small, very attractive town is the church Nossa Senhora Santana do Santissimo Sacramento built 1779.3rd and 5th day (2 nights): Pousada Piuval
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After the breakfast journey of Chapada dos Guimarães with the air-conditioned minibus into the Pantanal to the Pousada Piuval (postage Cercado), about 110 km, driving time about 2 hours. A stop is provided before in Poconé (last town in front of the Pantanal) you will have lunch in a typically Brazilian family here. In the connection journey to the Pousada Piuval (driving time about 30 minutes). An overnight stay is scheduled with dinners here.
In the afternoon even further small tours are carried out by horse and boat in the surroundings of the Lodge after dinner night safari for the observation of night active animals.
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5th to 6th day (1 night): Pousada Rio Claro
After the breakfast short excursion to the vicinity of the Pousada Piuval. In the connection journey of the Pousada Piuval along the Transpantaneira to the Pousada Rio Claro (running-time about 1 hour). Several stops at the Transpantaneira are inserted already on the way there for the observation and for taking a photograph of animals we can see this one out out of the car.After lunch the possibility for further excursions insists on, gallery woods and a little river, boat tours and tours by horse, is nearby. After dinner also here possibility for a night safari and observation of night active animals.
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6th to 9th day (3 nights): Refúgio Ilha do Caracará (southern Pantanal)
After the breakfast (quite early) we leave the Pousada Canto co Arancuã and go in the minibus to Porto Jofre until end of the Transpantaneira. The Rio Cuiabá to the Refúgio Ilha do Caracará we change into a boat and leave along about 30 minutes this absolute highlight this Pantanaltrip, here. Planned arrival to the lunchtime. You find the paradise here. This plant is a dream both of the comfort and the equipment this Lodge the non-plus extremist for all Pantanalguest when also of the surroundings "Parque Nacional do Matogrossense" offers far away from the civilization in the midst of the southern Pantanals in this, lain. You find everything from the sport fishing up to the really real nature paradise Pantanal here the Pantanal offers and the heart and the soul pleases. We have gone to this Lodge in June 2005 and in November 2006 and although we have known the Pantanal for 18 years and thought to have seen everything already, we were disabused. This Lodge geographically already lies in the southern Pantanal in the federal state Mato Grosso do Sul.
Have Lodge enchanted with the single position of these for themselves, the wonderful service and the wonderful natural landscape. You find the paradise in the true sense of the word here. Alone already the arrival is a dream.Main entrance welcome reconciles you for monkeys, Tucan and Hyazinth-Araras, in front of this at once. There is the greatest probability from this Lodge to watch Jaguars living free but unfortunately, we can not give a guarantee for it.
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9th to 11th day (2 nights): Fazenda Santa Tereza
The journey goes on after Porto Jofre and there out the Transpantaneira on Fazenda Santa Tereza from the Refúgio Ilha do Caracara back by boat with this along minibus. Time of arrival toward noon. We do a boat tour from Fazenda Santa Tereza after lunch in which they can with a little luck experience giant otters. At one of these days country piste our aeroplane (Cessna) is at your disposal and becomes you of Fazenda Santa Tereza (available) collect to start a sightseeing flight. The sightseeing flight lasts for about 1 hour and suffices to experience a lovely impression of the Pantanal from the air.11th to 13th day (2 nights): Pousada Pouso Alegre
It works from Fazenda Santa Tereza to the Pousada Pouso Alegre (driving time about 1 hour). Unfortunately, this Lodge disposes of very modest rooms only, find, however, a variety of animals here which there is not in this multitude somewhere else to see. You do riding tours, boat tours and trekking tours from here to the near situated gallery woods.
3th to 14th day (1 night): Hotel SESC - Porto Cercado
After the breakfast journey of the Pousada Pouso Alegre with the air-conditioned minibus to Porto Cercado to the Hotel SESC, about 80 km, driving time about 2 to 3 hours. An overnight stay is scheduled with dinners here.Note:
The tours are adapted to the local conditions, changes of the programme are left. A punctual booking is required since the Hotel SESC and the Refúgio Ilha do Caracará are booked up already months in advance. Prices:
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2 Persons DBL |
3 Persons TPL |
4 Persons 2 DBL |
6 Persons 3 DBL |
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Prices per person | 2385,00 € | 1995,00 € | 1845,00 € | 1575,00 € |
Performances included in the prices:
24-hour support by trained biologist (English, German-speaking).All transfers, journeys in the air-conditioned minibus, incl. all petrol costs.
All tours by car, to foot by horse and by boat.
2 overnight stay in the Pousada Penhasco in Chapada dos Guimarães with full board.
Lunch in a typically Brazilian family in Poconé.
2 overnight stay at the Pousada Piuval with full board.
1 overnight stay at the Pousada Rio Claro with full board.
3 overnight stay at the Refúgio Ilha Do Caracará (südl. Pantanal) with full board.
2 overnight stay at the Fazenda Santa Tereza in the Pantanal with full board.
2 overnight stay at the Pousada Pouso Alegre with full board.
1 overnight stay in the hotel SESC (luxury) in Porto Cercado (Pantanal) with dinner/breakfast.
All accommodations with air conditioner, bath/shower, Swimmingpool (except for Pouso Alegre, here no Swimmingpool), city centre tour of Cuiabá, approximately 1-hour sightseeing flight about the Pantanal in a Cessna (3 passengers per airplane) as of/at Fazenda Santa Tereza.
Are not included in the prices:
Soft-drinks, drinks, tips, personal expenditure.