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Puma Lodge
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Note: At Pantanal Jaguar Expeditions, we use this lodge for our Jaguar Tours
Puma Lodge is located at km 106 of the Transpantaneira Park Road. It offers visitors unforgettable horseback, bicycling and trail walking opportunities to observe and photograph animals and birds.
For guests who enjoy fishing and sightseeing on the river, Puma Lodge uses its own motorboats on the Cuiabá river, situated roughly 40 kms from the Lodge at the end of the Transpantaneira Park Road.
Moreover, their night tours are not to be missed. Nightlife is very active: owls may be seen and there are high probabilities of observing jaguar and other wild cats.
Installations:
- Solar Energy
- Rooms with air conditioning and boxspring beds
- Spacious restaurant with Pantanal regional cuisine
- Swimming pool
- Motorboats for fishing and sightseeing
- Bicycles
Hotel Porto Jofre
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Note: At Pantanal Jaguar Expeditions, we use this lodge for our Jaguar Safaris and Fishing Tours
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Hotel Porto Jofre is located in one of the most fascinating regions of the Pantanal at 245km from Cuiabá, the capital of Mato Grosso, and at 145km from the town of Poconé.
They welcome guests looking for both sport fishing and ecological tourism and offer:
- Twenty-eight guest rooms with air conditioning, TV and frigobar
- Marajó 19 115 Hp motorboats
- A 1,200-meter landing strip
- Restaurant with regional dishes
- Games room
- TV room
- Communications room
- Swimming pool
- Telephone and wireless services
- Laundry service
- Trails
They will even clean and store your fish for you!
Moderately priced and comfortable
Pousada Piuval
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Pousada Piuval is located 110 km from Cuiabá and 10 km from Poconé in the state of Mato Grosso. It is the first lodge along the Transpantaneira Highway, which begins in Poconé. The lodge is situated on a 7000-hectare cattle ranch and has one of the most beautiful landscapes in the Pantanal. Here tourists can observe an abundance and diversity of Pantanal flora and fauna.
Installations: 20 guest rooms with air-conditioning, television, mini-bar, ceiling fans, private bathrooms, and screened-in windows providing fresh air.
- A restaurant with screened-in windows that serves typical Pantanal meals.
- Satellite television
- Telephone and wireless internet
- Swimming pool, volleyball court, playground equipment, bicycles and observation towers
Scenery: The landscape around Piuval Lodge is full of natural beauty. There are large open fields mixed with islands of forest; a fantastic combination for observing wildlife and magnificent sunsets. Visitors will appreciate the scenery in either the flooded season (December to April) or the dry season (July to December), when wading birds reproduce and gather together in colonies.
Photographic Safari: Hiking trail for observing monkeys, caimans, macaws, jabiru storks, toucans, herons and egrets, spoonbills, cormorants, agoutis, ibis, coatis, rheas, anteaters, and many other species, along with diverse Pantanal vegetation.
Swimming in the river, boat and canoe trips during the flooded season (December to April).
Piuval Lodge has developed ecological tourism and scientific research.
Outings: There are many ways to see the Pantanal at Piuval Lodge:
- Hiking trails
- Horseback riding
- Boat trips and piranha fishing
Pouso Alegre
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Pouso Alegre is a countryside lodge located in Poconé, the Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Located in a traditional 11,000-hectare Pantanal cattle farm, it offers a great diversity of preserved Pantanal landscapes with characteristic flora and fauna, large floodable fields of native grasses, several kinds of forests and permanent and temporary water bodies.
From Cuiabá, Mato Grosso's state capital, there are 100km of paved road to Poconé and another 33km of Transpantaneira Road (unpaved), to reach the entrance. This will take approximately 3 hours including several stops along the way to observe local attractions.
During both drought and flood, many attractions of the Pantanal may be observed by walking, horseback riding or canoeing to rarely frequented areas.
The lodge is linked to the Transpantaneira by a private, slightly elevated, 6km service road with access year-round, providing excellent conditions for observing the flora and fauna of our region.
Animals such as caimans, capybaras, monkeys, anacondas, deer and a variety of bird species, such as hyacinth macaws, toucans, cardinals and the bird symbol of Pantanal, the jabiru stork, can be found in their natural habitats.
The simple but comfortable accommodations are in harmony with the landscape and a farming lifestyle.
The lodge offers 13 brick bedrooms, equipped with mosquito nets, window screens, a fan and a bathroom. Five bedrooms have air-conditioning.
In the opinion of guests, meals are a special highlight as they are served in a cosy restaurant and prepared in firewood ovens.
The combination of limited capacity, good lodging infrastructure, a privileged location in a natural environment, easy access, delicious typical food and peaceful ambience makes Pouso Alegre a great choice for guests wanting a pleasant and safe visit to the region.
Pousada Rio Claro
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Pousada Rio Claro is located in the municipality of Poconé, 142Km from Cuiabá, the capital of Mato Grosso, and at Km 42 from the Transpantaneira, and is strategically one of the most privileged areas of natural beauty in the Pantanal. It will provide you and your family with an unforgettable holiday in harmony with nature.
You will find a variety of Pantanal flora and fauna wherein you can observe the biodiversity of environmental preservation and ecology, including 640 species of birds, 75 mammals, 40 reptiles and 250 types of fish which use this ecological sanctuary for their reproduction and life cycles. There are also lakes, lagoons, streams, rivers and bays that change in accordance with the volume of rainfalls, guaranteeing incredible and varied scenery.
The restaurant offers best quality Pantanal cuisine so that you can savour typical dishes in a fresh and comfortable environment.
For your full comfort, the Pousada Rio Claro is provided with 20 bedrooms, each equipped with:
- Mosquito-screened windows
- Ceiling fan
- Private bathroom
- Three beds
- Air-conditioning
The current landscapes from the Pousada Rio Claro are marvellous and indescribably beautiful since they are composed of wide fields, flowers, trails and the marvellous river from which the Pousada takes its name, the Rio Claro. From the river one can observe the sunrise together with the dawn arrival of birds as well as exquisite sunsets.
Daily rates include full board (breakfast, lunch and dinner). The following excursions are also possible at this lodge: motor boat rides, horse riding, fishing, dawn boat safaris, trail walks, bicycling, night safaris and photographic safaris.
Budget
Pousada Rio Clarinho
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Pousada Rio Clarinho, which is located 145 kilometres from Cuiabá and 45 kilometres from Poconé, has 9 bedrooms, each with private bathroom and ceiling fan. It is a bit more rustic than the other pousadas we work with above, but this way you can experience what day-to-day life and cuisine is like at a typical Pantanal farm. The pousada serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, and offers horse riding, boat rides, piranha fishing in the river, walks in the forest, night safaris and a tower with a panoramic view, from which you can also watch the sunset. Its environs also contain a plethora of animals and birds to observe and photograph.
