Category: Brazil

We don’t normally write blogs about our visits to cities. However, Campo Grande in Brazil has a particular park – Parque das Nações Indígenas – which has so much wildlife that we believe warrants a short post! We were in the city looking for a mechanic to take a look at a transmission oil leak Read more

If we thought the Iberá Wetlands was rich in wildlife, the Pantanal was even more so! We had read online that in order to encounter as much wildlife as possible and fully experience the Pantanal, it is recommended to stay in a lodge. As such, we found a secure place to leave Phil in the Read more

Our arrival We had never heard of Parque Estadual das Nascentes do Rio Taquari, a state park in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul in central Brazil, until it was recommended to us by the ranger living and working in Emas National park (see our previous blog). We drove for around an hour and Read more

Heading inland We have spent the past month or so exploring some of Brazil’s beautiful coastline in the states of Bahia, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. We chose not to blog much on this leg of the journey as our travels were focused more on spending time with family that came to visit, beach-hopping Read more

After leaving Iguaçu Falls, we had a few long driving days to reach the city of Curitiba in the state of Paraná, Brazil. The journey was tough as we were driving amongst seemingly endless streams of impatient truck drivers. The landscape of continuously rolling hills didn’t help, with the heavily laden double-trailer trucks repeatedly crawling Read more

As has frequently been the case on this trip, we were sad to leave the Iberá Wetlands but looking forward to our next stop – the famous Iguazu/Iguaçu Falls. We were not only looking forward to seeing the falls themselves, but also reaching the hugely biodiverse Atlantic rainforest. And, of course, we were excited to Read more