Pantaneiro Ride in the Pantanal
(IT-BRRT03)
Pantanal, Brazil
8 days / 7 nights, rate from
$6,520
Pantanal is the largest continuous wetland in the world. It has an area of 140.000 square kilometers of floodplain in Brazil and it also spreads through Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina. It was formed between 02 and 05 million years ago, as a large sedimentary basin and now is an isolated plain surrounded by several mountain areas. An area more than a third the size of France. The name translates loosely as "big swampy place," pântano being the Portuguese word for swamp, but the Pantanal is really an alluvial plain, one so nearly flat that rainwater just loafs across it, flooding it in the full season, draining away in the dry. It is a World Heritage Site.
Pantanal has a diverse aquatic animal life, hundreds of different fish guarantee a rich bird population (mo...
Minimum riding level: Intermediate
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