All this became part of the experience, and I have to laugh now in hindsight at what a fragile traveler I was, seeing as though we experienced much of the same on the way back, and we were the first one in the water, ready to push. Our guide gave us each a bamboo stick with a string and a hook on the end and told us, "Now, go fish."

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• Piranha Fishing in the Pantanal