We had a great time. The only things that we didn't see was Jaguar (typical!) and Maned Wolf, although other people at San Francisco had seen both. We saw plenty of river dolphins at the Mamiraua along with uakari monkeys, sloths, black caimain, piraracu etc, which was excellent and it's a great place to visit. It was definitely better to do the Amazon first and then Pantanal as wildlife is just easier to see in the Pantanal, but the Amazon has other things to offer. We also really enjoyed Poco das Antas and Rio. The Panatanal was great, we probably saw most of the larger mammals at San Francisco Farm where we saw Ocelot, Tapir, Anteater etc. The north was better for birds and Caiman though. Overall we saw 8 species of monkey, sloth, 2 species of Dolphin, 4 species of macaw, 2 species of Anteater, Giant Otter, Capybara, White lipped Pecary, Tapir, 4 species of Deer, crab eating fox and racoon and Ocelot - so not bad overall!
The only bit of the trip that I might have changed was to stay another night at Xaeres, which was really nice and took ages to get to for just 1 night (I didn't realize that it was so far from Campo Grande!), also I think that I would probably skip Puma and have a couple more goes at seeing Jaguar on the Cuiaba river, possibly staying at Porto Joffre. I think if we went back we'd probably concentrate on trying to see Jaguar and possibly go to Caiman Lodge which sounded good. Apart from journey to Xaeres, which would have been fine if we stayed 2 nights, the pace of the trip was actually fine.
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