On Safari by Charete
This is an easier way to travel and allows plenty of time for talking. John is in the photo with one of the fazenda pantaneiros. The owner's son also accompanied them and John was able to ask him everything about the business of running a fazenda.John now knows the price of hectars, how many cattle to 1000 hectars, how many bulls to how many cows, how long a cow will live, that last year over 40 cows were killed by wild cats - jaguars and pumars and many more details of running a fazenda in the interior of Brazil!

Its a tough life and the fazendas need to have thousands of hectars as the earth is poor and will only sustain a small number of cattle - on top of which it is under water for most of the year.