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Wildlife Brazil: Jaguars of the Pantanal

11 days from £6,465pp

(based on two people sharing & excluding flights)

Brazil / Iguazú Falls

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Overview & Highlights

On this holiday to two of Brazil's most wildlife-rich destinations, the Pantanal wetlands and Iguazu Falls, the highlight is the very real possibility of spotting a jaguar in the wild.

Brazil is a blissful destination for wildlife lovers, with many of its natural landscapes offering the promise of multifarious sightings of birds, butterflies, reptiles and mammals. None more so than the yawning open reaches of the Pantanal, the largest freshwater wetlands in the world.

You’ll be staggered by the quantity of birds, floating in clouds over the savannah or dipping into waters of the region’s floodplains; and caimans, basking silently on the river beaches like hordes of summer tourists.  Most alluring of all is the possibility of spotting a jaguar or other wild cat – although there are no guarantees, during the dry season of May to October your chances at your lodge here are among the best on the continent.

We’ve combined a stay in the Pantanal with a few days at Iguazú, famed for its gigantic waterfalls but just as mesmerising for the variety of tropical birdlife on display in the surrounding rainforest.

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