Jaguar Research Center
4 days / 3 nights
2010 Rates:
Regular Tour rates;
$2515 per person in double occupancy;
single supplement $220.
Private Tour rates: $3355 per person in double occupancy;
single supplement $285.
See details below.
Day 1 – Cuiabá / Jaguar Research Center
Departure from Cuiabá (CGB) at 8:00, drive an hour and 15 minutes on asphalt to the town of Poconé, the start of the Transpantaneira, the finest and
only year-round road that penetrates the heart of the 50 million acres (20 million hectares) of the Pantanal, the world’s largest
freshwater wetland. This gravel-and-dirt road offers a greater quantity and variety of wildlife than any other road in the Pantanal.
All parts of the Pantanal are exciting, but there is nothing that can compare with the wildlife pay-off of the Transpantaneira. Drive
one and a half to two and a half hours on the Transpantaneira, observing wildlife, and reach the Pantanal Wildlife Centre at kilometer mark 66 of the road.
Leave PWC after lunch and drive 2 h (nonstop) or 3-4 h (observing wildlife) to the end of the 140-km-long Transpantaneira. The
road dead-ends at the 250-m-wide Cuiabá River, where we board boats and navigate 1.0-1.5 hours upstream to our base at the
Jaguar Research Centre camp, in the core of the new, Jaguar-rich 270,000-acre Meeting of the Waters State Park. The name of this
park refers to the three navigable rivers that join inside this unique park. Overnight at JRC. Lunch and dinner included.
Day 2 - Exploring the Meeting of the Water’s State Park in search for Jaguars
The Jaguar Research Center is a tented camp, as no buildings can be erected in the pristine core of the park. It is located on a key
piece of riverbank terrain in the center of the park, and that is where we anchor the house boat. In addition to the jaguars, there
are two groups of Giant Otters. One group is near the mouth of the Piquiri River and the other near the 330-acre island that lies
seven minutes by boat upstream on the Three Brothers River. We will spend all day in search for wildlife but focused on spotting
Jaguars. Overnight at Jaguar Research Center. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner included.
Day 3- Full Day Search for Jaguars
After an early breakfast, we leave the Jaguar Research Center for a full day boat trip to observe the diversity of the animals in the
region. We will watch for jaguars, tapirs, anteaters, giant otters, birds and other animals common to this region. We’ll use small
motor-boats to explore narrow and wild rivers in the core of this huge park. Recent guest have seen several of these huge
predators, during the day, many of them at very close range for extended periods. Return to the Center at the end of the afternoon in time for dinner. Overnight at Jaguar Research Center. (Breakfast, lunch, and dinner included).
Day 4 - Jaguar Research Center/ Cuiabá
After breakfast 1hour by boat and 2 hours (non stop) drive back to Pantanal Wildlife Center. After lunch drive 1.5 hrs along the
Transpantaneira back to the town of Poconé and then 1:15 on asphalt to Cuiabá airport, arriving about 15:35. Breakfast and lunch
included.
What is Included:
Prices per person include: Reception in hotel or airport in Cuiabá (CGB) and transfer to Jaguar Research Center, English speaking guide, 3, 4, or 5 nights with full board. Outings include intensive Jaguar search in small motorboats.
Regular Transfers:
Pick-up: 08:00 > Arrive Lodge:17:00 (with stops along Transpantaneira road, lunch included)
Leave lodge: 07:30 > Drop-off: 15:30 (with stops along Transpantaneira road, lunch included)
*Pick-up at other lodges along Transpantaneira road also available under request.
*Charter flight transfer from Cuiabá airport to Jaguar Research Center also available under request.
Transfers between Cuiaba airport and Jaguar Research Center normally take about 7-8 hours. Most of the trip is by road, but the
last 40-50 min are by boat on the Cuiabá River. If you don’t stop at all, the trip can be done easily in as little as 5 to 5 and a half hours, but
you will not have time to enjoy the amazing wildlife en route. If you are going straight from Cuiabá to JRC, we recommend leaving
no later than 09h00 so that you can savor the transfer, which is a nature-rich adventure in itself.
In the Regular program, all services are shared, and the guide will speak English. The maximum number of guests per group
is 9 (nine).
In the Private program, guide and excursions will be in private, guide will speak English, and with advance warning we can
provide a guide who speaks German, French, Italian, Spanish, or Japanese. With even more advance warning, other languages are available, but at extra cost.
Important: Transfers between Pantanal Wildlife Center and Jaguar Research Center in open truck (safari truck) will be sharing
with other guests.
Price does not include extras such as beverages, insurance, laundry (not available at JRC), tips, or other personal expenses.
Unlimited drinking water is available at Jaguar Research Center from large water coolers. Juice is included at breakfast, and coffee and tea are included at all meals. All other beverages, including sealed, plastic bottles of drinking water, are extra. Bring you own
water bottle to refill, thus eliminating plastic refuse and avoiding extra charges for bottled water.
Children under the age of 12 are not recommended at Jaguar Research Center.
JAGUAR PROBABILITIES
With 250 Jaguars sightings by guests in 160 search days in the 2007 and 2008 dry seasons, we experienced a 90% chance per day of seeing a Jaguar and a daily average of 1.8 Jaguars. Sightings vary considerably according to heat, cold, and water levels on rivers. We cannot completely guarantee a Jaguar, but we have by far the best Jaguar record in the world, and we believe that the
data and the tens of thousands of Jaguar photographs taken by guests speak for themselves.