The Pantanal

The Pantanal

Pantanal water

ย (By DG)

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ย If you do not like the humidity, the heat, the snakes, crocodiles and insects do not go into the Pantanal … !!
The Pantanal is the largest wetland area of the World (150,000 square kilometers) ….

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…. It is located in Mato Grosso, on the border between Brazil and Bolivia.
It ย is precisely there, in that place where time seems to have stopped thousands of years, where, some arthritic pain ago, I went to spend a few days ….

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… a few nights …

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… .some night …

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… .and some dawn ….

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… With my husband.

Our adventure began in Campo Grande, where we had rented a small plane, the only means possible to reach the “hacienda” destined to host us.
Arrived at the small airport, we learn that our plane is refreshingly cool, or rather I should say hot hot, of repairing …

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…. and that would be his first flight.

While we do full fuel …

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… The blue sky is adorned with graceful pink clouds …

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… And, once taken off, made a little slalom to avoid the shower …

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… Just below us the water does not miss it !!

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It seems to me that the sky and the earth will become larger and larger and our airplane getting smaller …
The fuel gauge is at zero, but our pilot reassures us by saying that it is broken ….
… The border police asked us to identify ourselves to ensure that we are not doingย  candy trade with Bolivia … and we respond that we carry only chocolates for crocodiles …

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And finally here is looming ahead of us, beyond the Rio Negro, the small ground landing ….

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… That, as we approach ….

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… .getting smaller and smaller, while the plane again becomes bigger and bigger ….

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And here we are on the ground ….

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… We are the only guests of what was once a small colony and now a ecological observation station …

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… No, actually we are not the only guests, on the arrival in the entrance of our accommodation is already a guest ….

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… We had not invited … .. !!!…..

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But never mind, we are surrounded by funny lizardsย  ….

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… small rats….

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… .not we lack even the family cat …

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We also have the insecticide

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to free ourselves from the ants …

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… Who keeps you company while chatting us …

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… While Mr. Martin poses for us before go fishing …

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… And my husband does not need to move from the florist to offer me flowers.

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But I find that here the domestic worker has watered too much the ficus home .. !! ..

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Just a shame that I cannot get my hands among the leaves ….

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… and it is already time to return home.

But feel free to meet Candido Portinari , a Brasilian artist of Vicenza origin

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(@ May 31, 2016)