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6:45 am. Leaving Campo Grande, city of 750,000, heading northeast for 400 km drive today bringing us into a preserved habitat of the cerrado, wetlands that are being rapidly destroyed but which contain a variety of habitats, now surrounded by agricultural areas (soybean, corn, sugar cane). We pass through fields dotted with termite mounds rising out of the red soil, cattle, rheas grazing on new spring growth. Flat terrain, tracts of tree farms rising up straight and orderly from the brown grass, with an occasional splash of a purple jacaranda tree. The next few days will be in and around Emas (rheas) National Park.
Mid-morning we pass through plantations of rubber trees. We keep driving; endless stretches of grassland stretch to the horizon reminiscent of South Africa, dotted with eucalyptus plantations, red gulleys, ranch after ranch where once had been forests, 100 years ago. After stopping for lunch and a couple birding breaks, we arrive 4 pm (back to Atlantic Time zone) outside the park at our hotel, then head out for a further foray on a "washboard" road as Marcelo calls it.
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