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Chobe National Park Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Chobe National Park, Botswana
"Choc-a-bloc Chobe" Game Park, Botswana
This is a top pick! ... tinny boat, for a wonderful 3 hour cruise. This part is called the Chobe river and is in the Chobe National Park, but it is actually just the Botswana section of the Zambezi river. Wow, what an experience being so near and personal with hippos, ...
Botswana Safari
The next day we headed out on a Safari in Chobe National Park, Botswana. The boarder between Zambia, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe is a river crossing. A huge line of hauling trucks waits to cross on a ferry that carries just one truck at a time. We ...
Elephants Galore
... . Our first stop was to cross the border into Botswana. We spent our first night in Chobe National Park, on the borders of Zimbabwe, Zambia and Botswana. It is a wetland area known especially for its birds and elephants. We started off ...
Botswana - The main course (Hippoland)
Feb 27th - Chobe National Park Chris the Safari driver picked us up this morning before sunrise for a drive around Chobe National Park. The park itself was the most picturesque one we visited in the whole of Africa. The section we drove in led us ...
Ihaha
... lovely game drive this afternoon - we drove along the river and saw loads of ele and buffalo and even zebra today. The scenery in Chobe is stunning - we actually found some plains today, as well as the river - I would love to come back and spend more ...
Oct 06, 2011
Up The Lazy River
... ; Our cruise heads up the lazy river which flows into the Zambezi and we see all kinds of wildlife. Chobe National Park is the second largest national park in Botswana, containing 12,000 sq. km. (4,633 sq. mi.). The whole area is home to a shifting ...
Lots of Elephants
... another 5 minutes down the road to our campsite, and we had the option of doing a boat cruise on the Chobe River (which marks the border between Botswana and Namibia). So we piled into the minibus and went to our waiting small river boat. We cruised ...
Encounter Africa
... food and supplies in the stores, and the attitude of the people was noticeably more relaxed. It was in our first camp in Botswana that our group was robbed. This was the only place on our trip that this happened and fortunately Ben and I had signed ...
Graceland
We are certain Paul Simon visited the Okavango Delta in Botswana before releasing the Graceland album. 10,000 years ago Lake Makgadikgadi dried up and left behind what is the world's largest inland delta. The Okavango river no longer has an outlet to ...
Along the Chobe River
... to keep on the lookout for crocodiles! At the Cresta Mowana Lodge safari rides are arranged to take you into Chobe National Park as well as riverboat trips to see hippos, cape buffalo and literally hundreds of elephants along the shoreline. The ...
Mar 22, 2011
Our scariest animal encounter, day 5 in the wild
... was only about 1hr drive away. But even during peak game viewing times, it was still empty when compared with Kruger National Park in South Africa where we started. For example when we would park to watch the sunset or come across a ...
Fight, Fight, Fight
... see was animals, hunting, feeding or fighting, frankly there was no way I was getting out of bed at 5.30am for anything less. Thankfully Chobe didn't disappoint and although there was a distinct lack of animals, the hippos and impalas put on a good ...
Safari Continued
... and all were unique in their own setting. We started up north in Chobe and made our way down to Okavango Delta. The animals in Chobe were amazing as there was a lot of water there which brought in many varieties of animals. In one day we even saw 2 Lion ...
Primeiro dia em Botsuana!
... contrário ao nosso, possivelmente em esquema de bate-e-volta para as Cataratas Victoria. Sem tempo a perder, fomos ao parque Chobe. Aproveitamos para sintonizar o rádio em uma estação local e assim que chegamos ao parque estava tocando música ...
Chobe National Park, Botswana
... saw a lot of wildlife. Granted it wasn't as comfortable driving around soaking wet, but the trip wasn't a total bust. The Elephant Valley Lodge was gorgeous and the service was wonderful. It was about 14 kms outside of Chobe National ...
Birthday Adventure 2012 - Chapter 5
... it into his car; it was at some point during this process that my cell phone was forever lost in the sands of Chobe National Park, Botswana. We drove toward camp in rescue vehicle #2, and were being entertained by Jinxy and Gabriel and their ...
Chobe NP (Part 2): Feasting on flesh
... in to feast on the substantial remains. And so that was that... for the next few days, we cruised around the Chobe riverfront searching for wildlife. On three separate occasions, we encountered a beautiful young pair of male lions just a kilometre ...
Chobe National Park
... for immigration as per usual, and then got back in the truck to drive to the ferry. The border between Zambia and Botswana is a river with a barge to take everyone across. There have been problems on the ferry which has meant that lorry ...
Mystery, Hope, and a Great Road Crew
... the trucks around seven to game drive until late morning before moving onto our next camp here at the Savute Marsh in Chobe National Park. The crew for Alwyn's truck consisted of Jayne, Nancy, Dan, and I. Our final game drive along the Khwai River ...
Ihaha and its wildlife!
... have to put my foot on a stool to keep it dry! 5.30 We have now arrived at Ihaha Camp, we are right in the middle of Chobe NP - there are no fences or any protection from the animals at all. I can see the toilets but there is no way I am walking ...
Falls, booze cruise and injuries!
... book so we'll have a look later. We drove to the border and crossed easily as Jenny had some insider information! To get to Botswana you have to cross on the Kazungula Ferry. After we drove through immigration on that side we past 53 trucks (they were ...
Animals, makoro's and bush camping
... later), we left some of our current party behind, picked up some new travellers and proceeded into the much unknown Botswana. First call was Chobe national park. We did, at frst a morning game drive which as pretty cool and we saw Lions on the hunt in ...
The Land of the Giants
... down the main shopping street or dodging cars through the car park. We then drove a few kilometres from Kasane into the Chobe National Park where we were camping for the next couple of nights and started a two hour game drive which was probably the most ...
Chobe Chilwero lodge - Elephants love water...
... sat exchanging stories of safari and travels for a while. Thomas and I slept in one lodge and George and William in another. Chobe National park opens at 7am and after a fairly early breakfast shared with Malcolm and Manya, we headed out in the open sided ...
Chobe National Park: "In Chobe We Trust"
... ) on an almost non-existent sand strip and spent two hours flying to Kasane, a small town in northern Botswana near the entrance to Chobe National Park. The flight took us over the myriad of small pools and channels in the Delta, ...
Safari!!!
... nights and pulled right in to the most amazing view. It's situated up on a hill overlooking the flood plains of Chobe National Park below. We had barely jumped out of the truck and we could see zebras drinking from the Chobe River and baboons ...
Safari Time
Hard to believe we've reached day 18 of the trip, it brought another long drive from Maun to Chobe National Park. Plenty of petrol station stops along the way. Stumbled upon a herd of 30+ elephants which was pretty cool. Lawrence was on top form ...