25 up early for breakfast and a truck safari (was sold as a jeep safari and we simply drove a truck along the road). We spotted a deer in the first minutes, a male with antlers and all. We also spotted many different birds, caimans, monkeys but no jaguars. This 'jeep safari' followed by 13 people walking into the jungle. Its not really what we had in mind when told that there would be a jungle trek. It was still interesting even though we would have scared every...

up early to breakfast and packed lunch, bus to the pantanal in the back of a mini bus. Cramped in the back with the wheel arch and not enough space for shoulders so we had to sit one shoulder forward. Had the aircon dripping constantly on my shoulder and soaked mt singlet, hat and anything else. Sarah offered to swap to the window seat but pulled it back after remembering about the dripping. Arrived at a turnoff and jumped on a truck for the last 20 km. the roo...