After a thankfully uneventful journey on the so called "Death Train" (people smuggling contraband on the roof of the train in the 80's often fell off and died), I was ready to cross the border to Brazil. At the border I met a guy called Indi (he's mentioned in the lonely planet, as he said to me about 10 times!) who ran Crocodile Indi tours. I was feeling lazy, it was a free taxi into the town, and he had already recruited a few other 'gringos', so I decided to go on his tour to the Pantanal for three days. The Pantanal We had a great group of people for the Pantanal which was a very international mix of Israelis, German, Canadian, Swiss and Czech. The two Canadians were great - they were in their 60's,
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