https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Mon, 05 Sep 2022 11:38:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/the-se-pantanal-br/ Sat, 10 Aug 2019 18:20:08 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=32462   August 10, 2019 Brazil gives us 90 days that we can renew once in a year for a max of 180 days.  Since Brazil is such a large country, we want to have enough time to discover it so are limiting our visit to this western part.  We will be returning to Brazil in […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/heading-back-out-of-the-pantanal-br/ Wed, 07 Aug 2019 22:29:16 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=32458   August 7th, 2019 Wednesday morning, Doug went for a long walk while Fran hung back to try and catch more pics of the macaws in the morning sun. Then O’Neill asked if she wanted to join him, Rosie & Ben and a family of four also from Britain (Mike, Aly, Adam and Emily) on […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/in-the-heart-of-the-pantanal-br/ Mon, 05 Aug 2019 18:32:20 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=32456   August 5th, 2019 We arose early Monday morning at our wild camp to begin the drive along the Transpanteira hoping to spot game after dawn but it was not to be that day although we saw many birds, some caiman and a deer: We arrived at Jaguar Ecological Reserve to camp and arrange the […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/to-the-pantanal-br/ Sat, 03 Aug 2019 17:20:20 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=32454   August 3rd, 2019 We were up and at ‘em early today in San Matias, Bolivia; border crossing days are often hectic and we knew this one had five places to check into, not the usual one (or two buildings) like Chile/Argentina crossings. First: the Aduana (customs) to cancel our Temporary Import Permit (TIP).  We […]]]>