Brazil
Day 73: The Pantanal

Breakfast has been laid out for us in a great expanse of bushes, trees and grassland, with two jabiru in attendance nearby.
'They're dating,' Pollianna tells me, and points out their huge nests in the trees above. She looks around.
'In the rainy season we'd never be sitting here. The water will reach one and a half metres high. We have to come by boat.'
It seems almost unbelievable that so much water should spill across this plain each year. There are advantages, Pollianna thinks. One of them is that it makes it very difficult to build and maintain roads in the Pantanal. This saves it from development. To my surprise she tells me that ninety-eight percent of the Pantanal is privately owned.
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PALIN'S GUIDES
- Series: Brazil
- Chapter: Day 73: The Pantanal
- Country/sea: Brazil
- Place: The Pantanal
- Book page no: 307
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