PAC - Tour 7: 5 days / 4 nights from / to Cuiabá - All year round
Nobres – Reino Encantado and Pantanal Pousada Rio Claro or Pousada Piuval
Pousada Reino Encantado, Bom Jardim (2 nights)
You will be picked up at the airport by your guide and drive to Bom Jardim, near Nobres (driving time about 2.5 hours, 150 km). Arrival at the lodge in the late afternoon at the Pousada Reino Encantado (or for lunch, depending on arrival time at the airport). At 5 pm you will drive to the Lagoa das Araras where hundreds of different species of birds (yellow-breasted macaw, parakeets, hyacinth macaw and other parrot species) return to the lodge and have dinner.
Cachoeira da Serra Azul – Lagoa das Araras
Breakfast at the lodge at 07:00. After breakfast, visit the unique beauty of this colorful landscape. They are equipped with snorkeling utensils (life jacket, mask, snorkel and diving shoes – they are professionally disinfected and cleaned after each use). In the crystal-clear spring basin you can enjoy the underwater world. Fish like the Pintado, Dorado and various aquarium fish live in this pool. Then you can snorkel in the river with crystal clear water. Lunch in the Pousada Reino Encantado.
After lunch drive 32 km (of which about 29 km unpaved road) to a fazenda. On the grounds of this fazenda is one of the most beautiful waterfalls with a blue-lapping lagoon in the state of Mato Grosso, the so-called “Cachoeira da Serra Azul” (waterfall of the blue plateau). A unique natural spectacle, something you should not miss. Beforehand, you will be provided with a life jacket and snorkeling equipment. Here you can visit a sanctuary of Aras, which is located on the grounds of the lodge. Here live Capuchin monkeys, Gelbbrustaras, with a little luck you also see a red Ara.Im connection about 2 km drive to the entrance of the nature reserve, rest footpath to the waterfall. However, it should be noted here that the way to the destination is not exactly unimportant and depends on your physical condition. You walk a small path through a gallery forest, then climb about 480 stone steps steeply uphill to get to the lagoon. In completely secluded untouched nature you will be enchanted by the sight, a large waterfall falls blue-shimmering, crystal-clear water, where you can dive if desired and swim with the fish together. Return to the lodge in the late afternoon, dinner. Rest of the evening at leisure. Upon request, your tour guide will take you on a small night walk in the nearby gallery forest to detect nocturnal animals.
After breakfast you travel towards Poconé(170 km) and alongside the Transpantaneira to the Pousada . On the way you will have several stops to observe the flora and fauna along the road. Arrival at the lodge for lunch. After lunch you either take a horseback riding tour or a canoe tour on nearby Rio Nova or Rio Claro, in agreement with your tour guide. Return to the lodge and dinner. On your demand, a night safari to trace nocturnal animals takes place.
On your demand, a sunrise tour takes place around 4:30 a.m. Breakfast at the lodge. After breakfast you can take a canoe or a horseback riding tour, on your demand and in agreement with our tour guides. Lunch at the lodge. In the late afternoon you travel alongside the Transpantaneira to trace mammals and birds. Return to the lodge and dinner.
Depending on your departure time, you can take another horseback riding tour or a bike tour to the Transpantaneira. Transfer to the airport.
With groups of 11 persons, one person is free. Children up to 5 years are free of charge when accommodated in the parent’s room. Children from 6 to 10 years get a discount of 50 %. For children from 11 years on the complete adult rate is charged.
Services included:
- 2 nights at Pousada Reino Encantado incl. full board (lunch and dinner at a local restaurant).
- 2 nights at the Pousada incl. full board.
- Transfer in/out Cuiabá in simple vehicles (we use a VAN for groups of 5 persons and more).
- The above described excursions with English speaking tour guides.
Not included:
- Beverages, possible tips, personal expenses, further optional excursions.
Optional Jaguar Safari – Full day tour(only from Juni to November)
You get up around 4:00 a.m. We serve you coffee or tea. Subsequently you travel to Porto Jofre, the end of the Transpantaneira, on an approx. 107 km non asphaltic road. On the way to Porto Jofre you have the possibility to encounter many mammalsad birds. We will have breakfast in form of a picnic. After the picnic we start on a 5 hour boat tour (simple boats) deeply into the Cerrado. Amidst unaffected nature you will be able to trace Jaguars in the area of Rio Cuiabá, Rio TresIrmãos, Rio São Lourenço and Rio Piquiri. Lunch in form of a picnic (lunch box). Return to the lodge in the late afternoon. Dinner and overnight stay at the Pousada.
