Pantanal, Brazil

Went to the Brazilian Panatanal for 3 days. The Pantanal is basically a big wetland where there are a lot of different animal species living. They have a huge array of birds plus a lot of Cayman and Piranha, and apparently Anaconda and Jaguar but unfortunatly we didn't get to see either of these. It was a pretty amazing place but it was not something I would recommend people do as you can see a lot of the birds and animals during other adventures in South America. Had a good time though and did some horse back riding through the water in a mission to find anaconda. Was good fun as we got the horses to the point of almost needing to swim. Also did some walking through the swampy waters which I felt wasn't the brightest idea as it was where the cayman and anaconda hang out but was a cool adventure. Did a spot of Piranha fishing again and this time came up trumps so heres some photographic proof of the fishing as well.

My Piranha which I caught with my trusty piece of bamboo and a short piece of line with a hook.

A close up of one of the many Piranha we caught. There vicious looking little buggers with four rows of razor sharp teeth.

Callum managed to catch a Cayman while Piranha fishing. Certainly cleared everyone out of the water pretty quickly as we had all been standing knee deep in the lagoon trying to catch Piranha. He was the only one to catch a Cayman. Didn't get to eat it either unfortunatly.

Callum, Myself and Andrew filleting Piranha before we cook them up and eat them. Callum went for the over kill knife with his filleting. Not an easy task filleting a fish that small.

A Cayman just chilling in the sun between the main courtyard and our dorm where we all slept in hammocks.

More Cayman...

All prettied up in my things from the Pantanal. The necklace is made from a water lilly and the christmas tree looking thing came from inside the piece of wood in my right hand which came out of a type of palm tree. Was pretty awesome.

If you look hard theres a Tucan in the top of the tree. Saw a few Tucan in the Pantanal but it was hard to get close to any.

The sun setting over the Pantanal!