pantanal

The Pantanal, represents an area of more than 100.000 square-kilometers of nearly untouched wilderness and natural life, which, during the rainy season is to a great part covered by water. Within this vast green sea there remain only few "islands" where you find the isolated Fazendas and Pousadas. On the Fazendas people are breeding cattle. The word Pousada literally translated means "resting place".

In spite of the fact that the rhythm of the raising and falling waters vastly determines all life in the Pantanal, one nevertheless encounters a great variety of landscapes there, with different eco-systems and an enormous bio-diversity With so much water the Pantanal is above all a paradise for fish and birds and thus for fishers and ornithologists or bird-watchers. It is also the habitat of many other kinds of animals, and you may encounter crocodiles and jaguars, tapirs, monkeys of various kinds and deers, capybaras as well as anacondas and anteaters, and many more.