The Floresta Amazonica Hotel makes a great welcome to the Cristalino experience and I highly recommend at least a night here before or after visiting Cristalino.  We arrived by bus from Cuiaba and the hotel staff picked us up at the bus station and brought us back in time for a wonderful breakfast buffet (only included if you are staying the previous night, otherwise payable separately).  We had gotten a bit of sleep on the bus and were re-energized after breakfast to walk around the hotel grounds.  There was a rare Harpy Eagle nesting in the grounds and they said to be back by 10am to join the guide to go see them so we didn’t stray too far.

Our actual stay was after the Cristalino Lodge for only 1 night (wish it could have been more).

Hotel entrance

Gotta love a restaurant named after the beautiful Crimson-bellied Conure called Tiriba in Portuguese.

Magazines in lobby

Artwork in lobby

Time to go birding!

Grounds in front of the hotel

Rooms facing nice bird habitat

Our room was decent sized but to be honest we only slept there – too many birds to find!

In Sept it got hot in the afternoon so we swam in the lovely pool until it cooled off a bit.

Some fruit trees that attract birds

Stand by for more details of the birds we found!