For more than 20 years, we have been guiding our guests through the northern Pantanal. Our lodge is located about 38 km from the entrance to the wetland, right along the famous dusty road, the Transpantaneira, which connects Poconé to Porto Jofre.
As soon as you pass the gate to the Transpantaneira, just after Poconé, you'll encounter the incredibly rich fauna and flora. It feels like being in the middle of a huge zoo, only there are no walls and hardly any fences – just bushes, trees, and the wide horizon that stretches to infinity. Caimans lie at the waterholes, a family of capybaras strolls across the Transpantaneira, and an anaconda lurks in the moat. The many water lilies, among which the large Jabiru storks strut while searching for fish, are a typical sight here. The termite mounds, some reaching up to 2 meters high, look as though they were paved by human hands.
Our tours include excursions throughout the entire region: the Pantanal alluvial plain, the Chapada, the meeting place of the jaguars, and river snorkeling in Nobres. All these trips can be combined.
Accompanied by our local guides, you will ride on gentle horses through the savannah. Have you ever seen an armadillo digging his burrow? Or at dusk, a tapir swimming in the water in the light of your flashlight?
On the high plateaus of the Chapadas you can enjoy the wide view of the lowlands and the savanna forests in absolute silence. Did you know that this is the geographical centre of South America? Why you don't take a dip in a river with many small waterfalls and discover the bizarre rock formations.
On the bottom of the clear river in the 25°C warm water there are often small freshwater stingrays. Let yourself float and swim eye to eye with the harmless black piranhas. Close to the accommodation, you'll spot shoals of blue yellow macaws on the palm trees as well as capuchin monkeys running around.
These graceful big cats are often to be seen at the river bank. Unfortunately, many animals were shot down in the 60's and still today the population recovers only slowly. They hunt deer, otters, agoutis, capybaras and even caimans in a large area with dense forests.