Tour 5: PANTANAL – Jaguar-Safari

Concentrates this programme on tracking down jaguars living free in the Pantanal. You the tour by tracking down and experiencing could, is continued by other species of animals in the Pantanal as soon as a jaguar living free in an adequate time period seen and watch. Becoming the tours for tracking down jaguars as long as continued, until you are content at long last and could watch a jaguar living free sufficiently for a long time. We guarantee you an answer-to-seize ratio of approaches 90% (however without one hundred per cent guarantee). Example: In the year 2007 altogether 85 persons have we are afraid we also regard this as slippery carried out this programme nevertheless of which everyone has seen a jaguar a one hundred per cent guarantee to give us to you in front of that, since nature and not man determines the program flow.

1st day: Cuiabá – Fazenda Santa Tereza
Collection at the airport in Cuiabá. Journey streets asphalted from about 100 km to to Poconé. Once in a typically Brazilian family you have lunch and the typically local matogrossian cooking enjoy (depending on the time of arrival) mattered in Poconé be. In the connection journey to Fazenda Santa Tereza (distance about 70 km of not asphalt street), along the Transpantaneira with several stops for the observation of the flora and along fauna the Transpantaneira. Arrival in Fazenda Santa Tereza on the shore meant much to Rio Pixaim. In the late afternoon we do a boat tour to track down mainly various species of bird and howling monkeys. Night safari with pocket torches and headlights for the observation of night active animals after dinner.

2nd: Fazenda Santa Tereza – Porto Jofre
After the breakfast we drive to the end-point of the Transpantaneira after Porto Jofre. A ship is located here. The ship "Pira Miuna" has two double cubicle with a private toilet and hot water shower. A bar is located in the upper deck where the noon and dinner is also taken. After lunch the Jaguar safari starts with a little boat and to Fuss. We go from here by boat to camp at the river "Tres Irmãos". Being Jaguar tracked down here.

The accommodation in the camp is carried out in a big tent with floor lumbers. Altogether, the camp has 7 big tents with 2 beds each (Kingsize beds). Mosquito nets, a washing facilities and a dry toilet which is moved to outside as of the year 2008, are over the beds. Furthermore a tent only is in the camp predominantly where the meals are taken breakfast and dinner. The noon and dinner is taken on the ship in Porto Jofre Night safari for tracking down jaguars and other night active animals.

3-4th day: Jaguar-Safari and animal observation
After the breakfast it goes on with excursions to the animal observations. If you should not have seen any jaguar living free until the 3rd day yet, the tours go on for tracking down Jaguar as long as, until you have seen a jaguar for a long time enough. There otherwise is a number of species of animals which one/woman can track down in the area around postage Jofre and the region of "Tres Irmãos" (former Fazenda): Giant otters, toucans, Hyazinth macaws, bird herons, water pigs, caymans, anacondas, anteaters. Night safari for tracking down night active animals and jaguars (case not seen yet).

5th day: Pousada Santa Tereza
We start with a walk toward 6.00 hours to watch the sunrise. Lain after the breakfast journey on the Transpantaneira back to Fazenda Santa Tereza at the river Pixaim where you will take the lunch. In the afternoon during a boat tour on the river Pixaim we try our luck when fishing piranhas, gives here the grösste probability also to watch giant otters living free. One can do further tour to track down after dinner around night active animals on request.

6th day: Pousada Santa Tereza - Cuiabá
After the breakfast journey to Cuiabá or another ride (depending on departure time). The programme ends at the airport in Cuiabá.

Reserved for programme patches due to weather influences and natural phenomena. Prolongation days possible, prices on inquiry!

Performances:
2 overnight stays in the double room on Fazenda Santa Tereza with full board (breakfast, noon and dinner), all rooms with bath/shower, ventilator and air conditioner.
3 overnight stays in the camp in the region "Tres Irmãos" or on the ship in Porto Jofre dependent (on the weather and the experiences already made).
Competent, experienced guides in the Jaguar camp for tracking down jaguars which also can among others read and pursue traces of the jaguars.
All transfers and all excursions in front of by car, horse, boat and to feet.
24-hour support by competent, trained English or German language guidebooks depending on availability.
All drives in practically new, air-conditioned and insured vehicles (minibus or car depending on number of participants).
A second travel guide is employed as of 7 persons.

Notes and remarks:
Our travel guides belong to the best travel guides in the Pantanal and know about the flora and fauna of the Pantanal very well. You are very experienced in dealing and tracking down of certain species of animals. We ask you absolutely to follow the instructions of the travel guides since this safari is not quite harmless. All possible protection and safety measures become and the biggest safety offers you checked of us. We nevertheless recommend the conclusion of an accident and foreign sick person insurance to your own protection. We do not take on responsibility for bodily damages suffered from.

It is the jaguar (Panthera onca) to have the firmest teeth of all wildcats confessed for this although his size does not reach this one of lions or tigers. The average weight of a male 103 kg in which the catch of more than 150 kg heavy jaguars was already reporting in the Pantanal. Due to the lavish food supply which he in this finds for animal kingdoms Pantanal his size surpasses, that one of the jaguars of Central America almost by the double here. The Jaguar or Onça pintada like him in Portuguese is said gallery woods in particular near to the water is loner and prefers habitats. He stands under strict protection with statuses CITES appendix I of the Washington protection of species agreement.

The impenetrable more generally does not to announcements of many journey organizers offer Amazon rain forest but the bush country and the savannas of the Pantanals to watch the best option jaguars contrasting. One assumed for a long time, the animal is exclusively night active. New type protection programmes and the absence of natural enemies contribute, however, that, during the day, the big cat can be always more frequently seen, too. The jaguar passes through a very big area on his nightly raids in shortest time. He puts back at this up to 30 km. Therefore it requires some time and patience, one wants to watch the animal during the day. One meets him mainly when having a rest on the embankments, fishing or on, sometimes even near to crossing rivers of settlements.

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