You cannot fully understand the Pantanal unless you have experienced all regions of the Pantanal. Exploring from a lodge off the Transpantaniera highway in the northern Pantanal, from the rivers at Porto Jofre and from a lodge in the southern Pantanal.
The north tends to flood easily, often to the extent that in the early part of the year the unpaved Transpantaniera can be impassable; whilst the south stays drier and for instance has a higher population of giant anteater. Between, and at the end of the highway, is Rio São Lourenço the demarcation of the Mato Grosso state and the northern Pantanal and Mato Grosso do Sul state and the southern Pantanal. Here boats set out in search of the jaguar that hunt from the banks of the local rivers.
