The Pantanal
April 3rd 2008 We left Rio on Sunday night for a flight to Campo Grande - the gateway to the Pantanal. We arrived at the hostel around midnight and then made our way to bed and got up to leave at 10:30pm for the 4 hour drive to the middle of nowhere in the Pantanal.
The Pantanal is basically a huge wetlands the size of and it is home to loads of animals who gather on the dry parts when the whole area floods.
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