Easy capybaras at tourist sites? (Southern South America)
Hi all!
I’m on a backpacking trip around South America, currently in Buenos Aires and thinking to head east or north from here. I understand that capybaras are very common at some of the nature destinations that others have described in trip reports, but I’d like to show my partner some capybaras even if she isn’t up for joining me on some of the more adventurous legs of the journey (which generally involve a lot of hitchhiking and potentially camping, since we have neither a vehicle nor money for tours or many proper hotels).
I’m wondering if there’s anywhere we might go to anyway where it will be easy to see capybaras. Iguazu Falls? Somewhere within the city of Buenos Aires? Of if not that, then at least sites easy to get to without a car from somewhere where accommodation is very cheap (like, under US$30 per night for two people).
Cheers!
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JanEbr
Iguazu is in rainforest, that’s not really capybara habitat, I don’t even think I ever saw them there. We saw plenty of capybaras by public transportation in Esteros del Ibera (Colonia Peregrini), but we camped – because that’s what we like the most, so I have no idea about accomodation (but the camping there is really beautiful). They are also numerous in El Palmar – I was there by car, but the bus stop on the main road is just outside the entry to the park, so that would be easy – but again, I camped there (and again it’s a really nice place to do so). Never saw any in BA proper, or anywhere very close to it for that matter.