Amazon Adventures

Brazil

Regular or Dynamic Pantanal Tours

We offer you several different lodging and activity options in this category:

The very comfortable Piuval lodge allows you to experience all the different aspects of the Pantanal. It is situated on the flood-plain and is bordered by a 3000 hectare lake formed by the Bento Gomes river. With plenty of mound hills, there are many possibilities for hiking, as well as for other actitivies such as horse-riding, and canoe or boat trips (especially in the Wet Season).At the end of the Wet Season (Feburary to April), just in front of the lodge, we can take the canoes, to navigate the Flooded Field to the mound-hills where we can hike- it's wonderful! Before the end of the Wet Season. the Baía do Piuval is full of water, offering a longer boat trip, with a spectacular sunset taken from the center of the lake! Fishing is also possible. The night safari is done to just the area surrounding the guest's house. In the Wet Season, animals are looking for higher places, and Piuval has plenty of those mound-hills. After the end of the Wet Season, when the land is getting dry, this is the first place to attract the migratory birds in their return to the Pantanal).

Dynamic Tour

For those who want to spend more than three nights in the Pantanal and would like to vary the environments they experience, this tour offers accommodation in Piuval and an additional lodge, with longer boat trips on rivers. Both lodges offer the same standard of comfort, with air conditioning and a swimming pool. These tours are especially recommended in the Dry Season.

See client photos from a December 2005 4 day trip

"A few months have gone by since that most memorable trip to Brasil. The accommodations were great and the guide (Jean - Haitian) really did everything we wanted him to do. My son and I were probably not your typical tourists as we had no problem with the hikes or the hours. We saw both kinds of anteaters (and not the one feeding from the handheld bottle although it was truly cool having that long tongue slurp at your fingers and hand), Marmoset and Howler monkeys, Capybaras and Caiman, Lizards and even a Tortoise, with at least 40 different kinds of birds (Eagles, Buzzards, Herons, Storks, Ibis, Parakeets, Toucans, Macaws, Secretary, etc., etc., etc.). One neat event was coming across a newly hatched brood of baby caiman making their little grunting noises - I was definitely looking around for mama - if I had been inclined I could have easily caught one of the 28 or so that were milling about. In the Chapada we took a long hike and swam in a couple of large pools with waterfalls - way cool - well not really, since the water was only a few degrees colder that the ambient air temperature but it still was refreshing!" - Duane