Camping in the Iberá Wetlands

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The esteros of ibera wetlands are the 2nd largest in SA, very similar to the pantanal in brazil, but more easily accessed (not in the middle of the continent) and much less developed and touristy. its still not easy to get there, you have to take a bus to a small town and from there get a ride in a 4x to the small town across the marsh, carlos pellegrini. its a very small town, dirt roads, very peaceful. we (jess and i) enjoyed walking around town, buying vegetables out of some lady´s garden, buying bread at the bakers house, ordering our dinner at a local comedor (basically eating in someones kitchen) around noon so itd be ready by dinner. the esteros are very much like the everglades, you take a boat tour to see the wildlife, which is pretty bizarre there, as it seems most of the animals are adapted from the rainforest. there are lots of birds of bright colors all over the place, crocs, pirhanas, anacondas, carpinchos, monkeys, and deer.

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Photos

Carpincho and Yacaré
One only eats grass, the other eats fish, why not be friends?

lots of Yacaré
yacare are small caimans that eat pirhanas

Carpincho
largest rodent in the world, looks like a tailless rat-beaver-pig. very docile herbivore, let me get very close

Carpincho
swimming and eating

Marsh Deer on floating island
they have webbed toes for swimming!

walking on the floating bog island
with my camping buddy jess

every argentine city has an oblesisk..
all of them, but relative to its status, and as you can see carlos pellegrini is not large