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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kittykat23uk" data-source="post: 3572394" data-attributes="member: 55291">For anyone else who might be interested, the current plan is looking like (in no particular order ):Six nights split 4/2 between canastra national park - supposed to be best place to find giant anteater plus chance of Maned wolf plus great birding including the Brazilian merganser. And the monastery at Caraça where maned wolf is habituated. This is coming in at around 1600 US per person all in with transfers to and from belo horizonte, with a guide recommended by Tropical Birding based on two single rooms . Other quotes have been a bit higher and this guy seems flexible enough that we can do some night drives too which aren't permitted inside the park. A female room share would be more ideal but not a deal breaker and I would be happy for this part of the tour to run with minimum of two up to 4 participants.Then I have been planning to return to north pantanal with the guide I used before, julhino from pantanal trackers. For this section I have been planning this with a friend who came with me to Borneo. We could look at adding one or two more, but we are also currently content to run with just the two of us. Our plan is to split the time:3 nights pousada alegre 4 nights at carmindo's homestay (camping) beyond Porto Jofre2 nights at pousada piuval Cost for this section is (quote us in Brazilian real ): 3 people R$ 5.2002 people R$7.050We are debating whether to have a night in porto jofre either in place of a night camping (works out about £40 more) or in place of a night at Piuval. Then my friend wants to fly to south pantanal for four nights at San Francisco farm which has a rep for ocelot. I also hope to do this bit as well. The details of San Francisco farm packages can be found here: <a href="http://www.fazendasanfrancisco.tur.br/pacotes/pacote-aventura-no-pantanal-5-dias-e-4-noites-fazenda-san-francisco-roteiro-dia-a-dia/7/" target="_blank">http://www.fazendasanfrancisco.tur.br/pacotes/pacote-aventura-no-pantanal-5-dias-e-4-noites-fazenda-san-francisco-roteiro-dia-a-dia/7/</a>They are customisable and we will be looking at maximising wildlife related activities of course, including night drives.Note there are several internal flights and obviously international flights to be added to these costs. Please PM me if you are interested in joining.All the best</blockquote>

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