Southern Pantanal hiking Package

Translated from Portuguese as “beautiful,” Bonito lies far off the foreign visitor’s grid of Brazil, in the midwestern state of Mato Grosso do Sul, or “southern thick bush.” From here, Bolivia and Paraguay are closer than Rio and São Paulo. To the west is the Paraguay River, and to the north is the world’s largest tropical wetland and Mato Grosso do Sul’s main tourist draw—the Pantanal.Bonito’s beauty lies not in its town—a chalky-colored grid laid around one main street decorated with restaurants, souvenir shops, and tourism agencies—but in the nature and wildlife of its periphery. The region’s abundance of azure grottos, glistening rivers, and tangerine-flecked piraputanga that leap from the waters to snatch low-hanging figs create a lush, open-air