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18 DAYS
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  • Tour of Rio de Janeiro, including cable car ride to top of Sugar Loaf, the city’s iconic peak, commences our Brazil expedition.
  • Serra da Canastra National Park and Caraca Natural Park, where we glimpse toco toucans, hyacinth visorbearers, and the masked titi monkey.
  • Four-day exploration of the Pantanal; search for giant river otters on the Pixaim River and enjoy evening spotlighting excursions seeking out resident mammals.
  • Full-day tour of Iguaçu Falls, both the Brazilian and Argentinean sides, an unforgettable highlight of any South America adventure travel tour.
  • Acclaimed expedition leader and naturalist Mark Brazil, who considers Brazil to be his favorite eco-expedition destination.
ACTIVITIES ON THIS TRIP
Primary: Rainforest, Wildlife, Walking Tour
Other: trekking, Hiking, Parks & Nature Reserves, Waterfalls, Local Culture & Cuisine, Photography, sightseeing, World Heritage Sites, national parks, museums, birding, boating
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Wild Brazil with the Pantanal

Brazil unfolds before us in all its stunning natural glory during this popular South America expedition. We visit several different biomes, see as many as 25 indigenous mammals, study ten times as many birds, and even meet some of the planet’s rarest primates.
Brazil unfolds before us in all its stunning natural glory during this popular South America expedition. We visit several different biomes, see as many as 25 indigenous mammals, study ten times as many birds, and even meet some of the planet’s rarest primates. Of course, no Brazil expedition is complete without Iguaçu Falls; this two-and-a-half-mile-wide cataract is our introduction to this spectacular country. Also, included in our Brazil adventure travel tour is the massive Pantanal, the planet’s largest seasonal wetland area. We meet the capybara, the world’s largest rodent; view nocturnal mammals in their natural habitats; and glimpse jaguars, ocelots, and tapirs.

What to Expect:
While our South America adventure travel tour is not overly strenuous, participants should be reasonably fit and capable of moderate exercise. There will be several opportunities for jungle hikes during the Brazil tour that will entail walking, unaided, over rugged trails with occasional inclines—the reward being glimpses of rare primates and abundant birdlife. Many of the days on our itinerary will require lengthy bus journeys along rough roads. Our Brazil expedition is best enjoyed by those who relish natural history and who travel with a sense of humor, flexibility, and a true spirit of adventure.
Day 1: USA
Depart from the USA on your independent overnight fl ight to Rio de Janeiro.
Day 2: Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Arrive Rio de Janeiro and transfer to our hotel. After brunch depart for an afternoon at the Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro, a microcosm of Brazil, showcasing Victoria Amazonica lilies, over 700 species of orchid, and supporting many of the region’s birds. We also ride a cable car to the top of Sugar Loaf for views of the city and beaches. Dinner at a local restaurant and overnight at the Caesar Park Hotel.
Lodging Caesar Park Hotel
Description IPANEMA BEACH tops the must-see list for every visitor to Rio de Janeiro . The luckier ones stay at the beachfront Caesar Park Rio de Janeiro – Ipanema. The 222 rooms and suites furnish breathtaking views of the beach and sea. The twenty-first floor's Imperial Suite – is a 488 – square-foot wonder.. Ocean views flank every room in the new Convention Center, where up to 200 people attend social and business functions. The hotel's Galani restaurant serves contemporary Italian fare, rated among the city's finest. On Saturdays, guests look forward to the lavish feijoada feast served for lunch. A short walk leads to the neighborhood's exclusive boutiques and restaurants – and to the beach, where hotel staff supply chaises, umbrellas and fresh fruit. Services: 24-hour Room Service Local newspaper in the room on request 24-hour Valet Parking Beach facilities: chaise lounges, sun shade and shower Stores Concierge for all kind of assistance Rent-a-car and cell phones
Day 3: Rio de Janeiro / Iguaçu Falls
After our short flight from Rio, we arrive at Iguaçu Falls. Enjoy a leisurely walk to admire the Brazilian side of the falls and enjoy a panoramic view. Dinner and overnight for the next two nights at Cataratas Hotel Iguaçu.
Lodging Cataratas Hotel Iguaçu
Description The only hotel located within the Iguassu National Park, Hotel das Cataratas enjoys an unrivalled location just a short stroll from the sensational waterfalls. Guests enjoy exclusive access to this magnificent sight in the evening and at dawn, when the park is closed to other visitors. A Portuguese-colonial residence, this classic Orient-Express hotel is redolent with the atmosphere of lazy days lounging on a veranda or beneath sub-tropical palms. This natural paradise also offers thrills and excitement in abundance: white water rafting, helicopter trips over the gorge and jungle treks to view amazing wildlife including colourful toucans and giant butterflies.
Day 4: Iguaçu Falls
We have a full day to explore Iguaçu Falls, one of the world’s most dramatic waterfalls. Today we visit the Argentinean side of the two-and-a-half-mile-wide falls to enjoy a combination of whitewater, rain forest, and birdlife, including caciques, toucans, and woodpeckers. Of special interest are the kettles of swifts as they swirl and dart through the spray behind the falls. The endangered tegu lizard is relatively common here, and the number of butterflies is astounding.
Day 5: Iguaçu Falls / Vitória /Santa Teresa
This morning we board our flight to Vitória, then drive to Santa Teresa, a charming city whose tiled-roof farmhouses reveal its 19th century Italian roots. Time permitting we visit the garden of the Mello Leitao Museum, where flowers and feeders attract multiple species of hummingbirds, including the swallow-tailed hummingbird, and perhaps the frilled coquette. Dinner and overnight for the next two nights at Solar dos Colibris.
Lodging Solar dos Colibris
Description Hotel Solar dos Colibris,located in Santa Teresa, where there was the first Italian immigrants in the country, belongs to the mountainous region of Espirito Santo. Far from Victoria and 75 km 3 km from the town. It is the first state in the Atlantic Forest cover. It has a temperate climate with maximum temperature of 30 ° C and minimum of 2 ° C, its population is of Italian descent and Pomeranian. Santa Teresa is known worldwide for being the land of the scientist Augusto Ruschi, the world capital of biodiversity and also the largest producer of wine jabuticaba state.
Day 6: Santa Teresa / Muriqui Project / Lombardia Forest
After breakfast we drive to Santa Maria de Jetibá to visit the Muriqui Project whose mission is to study and conserve the populations and habitats of the northern muriqui. One of the world's most critically endangered primates, the muriqui is endemic to Brazil's Atlantic rain forest region. Our visit to the project will help support the conservation of this species. 

This afternoon we visit the Lombardia Forest, which shares parkland with the Augusto Ruschi Reserve, home to the buffy-headed marmoset. Birding here is rich and rewarding and we hope to find antbirds, manakins, puffbirds, toucanets, and more.
Day 7: Vitória / Belo Horizonte / Serra da Canastra National Park
After breakfast we depart to the airport for our flight to Belo Horizonte. From here, an overland drive to Serra da Canastra National Park takes us across the central part of Minas Gerais. The hilly landscape is dotted with farms and pastures and the occasional dark patch of forest. Dinner and overnight for the next three nights at Chapadao da Canastra.
Lodging Chapadao da Canastra
Description The Plain of the Canasta Hotel is unlike anything you already know! It is among the rural and the urban structure and comfort of hotel lodging. Despite its location in the heart of the small São Roque de Minas, 300 meters from the main little square with the beautiful Church of San Roque, is also on the banks of the Fish River (a tributary of the Rio San Francisco). It occupies an area of ​​5 square meters where more than half consists of lush hibiscus gardens with giants who call the attention of passers by. There are also many exotic flowers with vines that are the delight of countless hummingbirds - one of the biggest attractions of the Hotel, winning not only tourists from Brazil, but also many foreigners who marvel at the sheer number and diversity of birds. Tanagers, Tietingas, tanagers, toucans, canaries Earth, Rooks, are always present in their nests on the balconies of the hotel and the many feeders with fruit spread strategically. The River Fish in a completely unpolluted, which provides access through the parking lot of the Hotel, you can find small wild animals: monkeys waiting for bananas, otter, raccoon, lizards, armadillos.
Day 8 - 9: Serra da Canastra National Park
This vast area of mountains and grasslands, Serra da Canastra National Park, presents a spectacular backdrop to our two days of exploration. The wooded gullies and rolling savannas support unusual birds, as well as the world's highest concentration of giant anteaters.
Day 10: Serra da Canastra National Park / Caraça Natural Park
Today we set out overland to Caraça National Park with stops for photos, birding, and lunch en route. Set among tall mountains and lush forest, this park was originally a seminary retreat. Our accommodations for the next two nights are in renovated rooms in a wing of the original 17th-century seminary, surrounded by parklands among high mountains and lush forest. Tonight we gather outside the church, hoping to witness the maned wolf that often comes to take meat.
Day 11: Caraça Natural Park
We have a full day to explore the Caraça wilderness on various walks with special focus on the endangered masked titi monkey, often located early in the morning by its laughing call. The birds of the area that we hope to find include the swallow-tailed cotinga and the hyacinth visorbearer.
Day 12: Caraça Natural Park / Belo Horizonte / Cuiaba River
We depart Caraça this morning and drive to Belo Horizonte. From there we fly to Cuiaba for dinner and overnight at Intercity Cuiaba Hotel.
Day 13: Cuiaba / Pantanal
We rise early and set out for the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland area, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and a Biosphere Reserve. The first 60 miles are through a disturbed cerrado transition ecosystem that leads to the raised-dirt highway known as the Transpantaneira. Suddenly, wildlife abounds; this is one of the finest birding regions on Earth. The astonishing biodiversity here includes an incredible array of mammals, birds, and reptiles. Fish concentrate in the few seasonal pools, which are crowded with storks, herons, spoonbills, ibises, and limpkins. We continue through a diverse blend of cattle country, forest, and swamps, with stops for observation and photography. Arrive at Araras Eco Lodge and watch the crowded bird feeders, look for the rare and beautiful hyacinth macaw, seek out local mammals, or simply relax. After dusk an entirely new wildlife world emerges and we set out for a spotlighting excursion after dinner to look for great potoo, crab-eating foxes and raccoons, and other mammals including the possibility of ocelots. Dinner and overnight at Araras Eco Lodge.
Lodging Araras Eco Lodge
Description The PANTANAL, the largest continuous wetland on the planet, declared a World Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO, is South America's primary wildlife sanctuary.With a total area of approximately 150,000 km² and located in the center of thecontinent, the Pantanal is a biogeographic mixing bowl containing elements of the Amazon Forest, the Caatinga, the Brazilian Savannah, the Atlantic Rainforest and the Paraguayan Chaco. This fantastic biodiversity includes: 698 birds species, 80 mammals, 260 fish species and 50 reptiles. Located amidst all this is the ARARAS ECO LODGE (16º 30' 42.3" S; 56º 42' 39.4" W). Built in harmony with the environment, without renouncing comfort, the lodge is reachable all year-round by car via the Transpantaneira Park Road, 132 km (82 mi) south of Cuiabá (the capital of the State of Mato Grosso) On a 2h30 exciting safári-transfer, in air-conditioned vehicle. From this lodge, with its enviably preserved surroundings, it is possible to do first-class bird-watching, trekking in pristine forest, canoeing, horseback riding, truck photo-safaris, night tours, two exciting tree top look outs with 12 and 25 m high and much more, all under the assistance of expert bilingual naturalist guides.
Day 14: Pantanal / Pixaim River
We enjoy wildlife viewing in the vicinity of Araras before moving south to the Pixaim River. Along the way, we make stops for birds, nature-viewing, and photography as we head deeper into the Pantanal. We scan wetland areas for capybara and marsh deer, and stop to admire the immense treetop nests of the jabiru stork. In the afternoon we spend time on the Pixaim River, searching for the family of giant river otters that makes its home here. Dinner and overnight at the Mato Grosso Hotel.
Lodging Mato Grosso Hotel
Description Convenience, practicality and comfort. The Mato Grosso Hotel Chain has more options that range from economic to luxury hotel services. There are seven hotels that cater to all tastes. Hotels Mato Grosso, a network of options.
Day 15: Pixaim River
To fully explore this rich wetland area, we spend the day in boats on the Pixaim River to watch some of the area's innumerable riverine birds, including kingfishers, terns, and skimmers, and keep a lookout for howler and capuchin monkeys, jacaré caimans, and capybaras. Dinner and overnight at Mato Grosso Hotel.
Lodging Mato Grosso Hotel.
Description Convenience, practicality and comfort. The Mato Grosso Hotel Chain has more options that range from economic to luxury hotel services. There are seven hotels that cater to all tastes. Hotels Mato Grosso, a network of options.
Day 16: Curicaca Reserve
This morning, we depart for Curicaca Wildlife Reserve. Set back from the Transpantaneira Road, our wonderful lodge offers additional opportunity for exploration and possible mammal encounters as we keep a special lookout for Brazilian tapir. Dinner and overnight at Curicaca Eco-Lodge.
Lodging Curicaca Eco-Lodge
Description The lodge is located in the heart of the reserve, 3 Km far from the entrance in the Transpantaneira road. By the side of river Novo and under the shadow of huge leafy trees, it is constituted by a group of several individual nature-respectful low buildings, earth-coloured and with brown tile roofs. Four of them, rectangular-shaped, are destined to administration, laundry, service staff, guides, bar and interpretation center. Another small group of rounded huts is appointed to several common areas, such as the restaurant, kitchen and food-store, a second bar or the Internet room. The ones destined to ecotourism and nature researchers are six square buildings (Mutúm, Jacaré, Capivara, Tucano, Sucurí and Tamanduá). Each of them, surrounded by a 200 m2 porch with chairs and hammocks, has four independent rooms, all of them with complete individual bathroom and hot water, electric fan and ample windows with mosquito nets. Every room (to choose between double or matrimony beds) has craft furniture with clothes shelves, side tables and writing desk.
Day 17: Cuiaba / Sao Paulo / USA
After a morning at leisure we return to Cuiaba for our flight to Sao Paulo, then connect to your independent flight back to the USA.
Day 18: Arrive USA
Arrive in the USA and connect with your flights homeward.
TRIP INCLUDES
  • All accommodations
  • Goup meals from brunch on Day 2 through breakfast on Day 17
  • Group transfers
  • Guided excursions as stated in the itinerary
  • Entrance fees for parks, reserves, etc.
  • $50,000 of emergency sickness/accident medical expenses and $75,000 in evacuation insurance
  • All gratuities
TRIP DOES NOT INCLUDE
  • All air transportation
  • Excess baggage charges
  • Airport arrival and departure taxes
  • Transfers for independent arrivals and departures
  • Passport and/or visa fees
  • Accident/baggage/cancellation insurance
  • Items of a personal nature such as laundry, bar charges, alcoholic beverages, e-mail/fax/telephone charges
CANCELLATIONS: 20% cancellation fee applied if cancelled 60 days prior to departure. Cancellations within 60 days are 100% non-cancelable

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