Llanos Holidays

Llanos activity holidays from the adventure travel experts at Exodus. The vast plains of the Llanos (pronounced yanos) stretch through Brazil, Colombia. and Venezuela Swampy flood-plains in the wet season, grassy pastureland in the dry, they are home to millions of cows and a vast array of wildlife, with more than 500 species of birds, countless caiman and capybaras, as well as more exotic species such as the jaguar, ocelot and honey bear. The llanos have always been a place of strategic significance in the country’s history, providing wide open spaces for troop movements, abundant cattle for provisioning, and a population of llanero horsemen whose skill and ferocity in the saddle was legendary. The llanos rank with Brazil’s Pantanal as the most spectacular wildlife habitat on the continent.