KAA IYA NATIONAL PARK / BOLIVIAN PANTANAL – JAGAUR AND ANACONDA TOUR

Early rise of 5 AM for a peak hour drive or walk around the Tucavaca area in search of wildlife and we will also set a camera trap in an ideal location and will check in the end of the tour. Breakfast at 08:00 am After Breakfast we head to one of the only water sources in the area, it’s an 1600 meter trek and one can expect to see a lot of tapirs tracks and scats, also Bolivian Titi monkeys can be seen here with some frequency.A fresh lunch will be provided around 1300

We set out on an afternoon night drive covering most of the Tucavaca area with spotlights in the hope of big mammal sightings.Dinner/Rest (Night walk / Drive Option)

At 05:00 am leave with all our belongings for a 120 km drive along the pipeline to the Izozog Pumping Station,home to the Famous Kaiyana Jaguar, along the way it’s an excellent chance to see Mammals, we have had excellent Jaguar and Tapir sightings at very close range The drive will take up to 6 hours due to driving slowly to maximize wildlife viewing. We can have breakfast along the way. Lunch around 1: 00 pm

Once signed in with the Izozo Park Rangers of this camp we take an afternoon trek to an excellent area where we have seen many Jaguars, we will check and set up camera traps.

In the evening do an evening/night wildlife drive back to our camp for the night. This is one of our best opportunities for big cat and Tapir Sightings. Dinner and bed.

Early breakfast and peak hour departure from Kaa Iya, here we drive towards Santiago de Chiquitos and the protected área of the Valley of Tucavaca, lunch before we have a short trek to a spectacular look out which has some of the most incredible scenery in Boliva, keep an eye out for large flocks of Macaws too, we depart this incredible location and drive a few hours to the base town of our Pantanal Trip and retire for the night.

Breakfast before we drive around 70 km to the entrance of the park, along the way we will be passing one of the largest mines in Bolivia (Muntun) We will meet the Park rangers and present previously arranged permits and paperwork before continuing to enter the park, along the way we will keep an eye out for a large abundance of wildlife which present excellent photographic opportunities. Around 1230 we will set up camp and have a freshly prepared lunch.

In the evening we will start peak hour drive where we will be looking from everything from Giant Otters through to Anacondas and Jaguars, if we are really lucky we can even catch a glimpse of the endangered Maned Wolf which resides in this National Park. Dinner and rest.

Early start, here we will do a peak hour wildlife drive/walk with a focus on Anacondas, we will return to the camp for breakfast, we will partake in a bit of piranha fishing or exploring before packing up our camping equipment and departing the National Park after lunch, have the camera ready as the long drive out of the park often produces excellent wildlife sightings.

We will return to your hotel in the evening.

Breakfast and the long drive back to Santa Cruz, this is a full day’s travel however we will stop to explore some sights along the way, lunch in a scenic town before we arrive back to Santa Cruz in the evening.