Chobe National Park, Botswana Travel Blogs

Botswana Safari
May 14, 2007 (20 photos)

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
Sep 24, 2009 (16 photos)

... . 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 ...

Ihaha
Aug 20, 2008 (23 photos)

... 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 time ...

CATCH UP
Sep 14, 2009

... of 12 Castle bottles were  R58 which is about 6pounds.  We arrived at the Ilkey Game Reserve just outside Kruger National Park (KNP), we drove in through 2 gated areas, all the roads were sand trails, with Acacia trees that had 3cm long spikes ...

Up The Lazy River
Oct 19, 2009 (4 photos)

... ; 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 ...

Encounter Africa
Mar 25, 2008 (10 photos)

... 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
Mar 27, 2008 (7 photos)

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 ...

Chobe Safari Lodge
Jun 14, 2008

Chobe National Park is exactly what one would expect the planes of Africa to look like.  Along side the Chobe River, the park is busstling with heards of elephants, impala, cape buffalo, hippos, giraffe, kudu and many other wild animals.  We got ...

Our scariest animal encounter, day 5 in the wild
Sep 16, 2009

... 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 ...

Chobe National Park, Botswana
Jan 26, 2008

... 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 Park.

Chobe NP (Part 2): Feasting on flesh
Sep 4, 2008 (23 photos)

... 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
Sep 1, 2008 (15 photos)

... 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 drivers ...

Mystery, Hope, and a Great Road Crew
Jul 27, 2004 (10 photos)

... 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!
Aug 19, 2008 (19 photos)

... 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 there, ...

Falls, booze cruise and injuries!
Aug 18, 2008 (41 photos)

... 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 counted ...

Animals, makoro's and bush camping
Oct 5, 2007 (15 photos)

... 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 a ...

Safari!!!
Oct 24, 2008 (4 photos)

... 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
Dec 9, 2005 (46 photos)

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 ...

Landie leads the way, day 3 in the wild
Sep 14, 2009 (4 photos)

... road and see what we would find today.  We drove towards the official gate where we would enter Chobe National Park and from that point be prepared to face a well-known challenging section of the drive due to its deep sand tracks ...

Welcome to Botswana!
Nov 24, 2008 (7 photos)

... even scarier..  17/11 - We got to sleep in today till 6:15am, we were all very excited!! We headed to the Chobe National Park today to try & see some more animals. Unfortunately we didn't get to see any of the "cats" but heaps of everything else. ...

Landie leads the way, day 4 in the wild
Sep 15, 2009 (6 photos)

... 5 minutes when we reached the border crossing to Namibia, and unfortunately we were turning the other direction to again enter Chobe National Park and back to the sand tracks. We welcomed these sand tracks as they also felt incredibly soft after the drive ...

Chobe National Park
Aug 31, 2009 (14 photos)

Chobe National Park - river safari

Botswana's Story
Aug 27, 2009 (12 photos)

... from the Delta trip, and some also undertook a flight (one of the highlights of my last trip), we headed to Chobe National Park. Where we undertook a sunrise game drive, we saw elephant, water buffalo and loads of birds. That afternoon we went on a 'non- ...

Chobe National Park
Nov 6, 2008 (18 photos)

Our first stop on our overland trip was Chobe National Park, which is Botswanas most famous national park. We arrived at our camp site in the afternoon and after setting up camp we had time enough for a trip in the pool. Summer is coming to southern Africa ...

Chobe!
Jul 17, 2009 (2 photos)

... . I asked if Amazon devilvers to Zambia???? We are heading to Botswana for safari. A pretty large group of us. It should be a lot of fun. We are going to Chobe, I think a National Park, in Botswana. I'll take lots of photos! Have a nice weekend everyone!!

Safari
Jul 18, 2009

... a mat with their shoes on to keep some other disease out of their country. We all wondered what was on the mat. Once in Botswana, Chobe is just about 15 minutes from the border. We arrived at our camp site after dark, dinner was made for us by our guides, ...

How we ended up going to botswana
Jul 10, 2009

... from the night beforeso we settled on 5 bottles of beer. The next morning we had to get up early to leave at 7 for Botswana which made Oliver grumpy. It all started with a river safari then we were driven to the campsite here the facility's were ...

Chobe NP (Part 1): Sleeping with lions
Sep 2, 2008 (28 photos)

... bags. It's been a long day, searching high and low and far and wide for wildlife in our first day in Botswana's Chobe National Park. It's a tough life ;) It's also been our first full day of serious off-road driving as we tackled Chobe's sandy and ...

Chobe: Elephants and Hippos on River Cruise
Aug 15, 2005 (4 photos)

Crossing back into Botswana we went to Chobe National Park and went on a cruise on the Chobe River. It was amazing as we saw tons (literally) of elephants run down to the water during sunset and hippos bathing themselves. The following morning we went ...

ticking of the BIG FIVE,six, seven,... @ Chobe NP
Oct 10, 2006 (5 photos)

Yet another morning that started with sunrise. As the jeep for the morning game drive inside Chobe National Park was to start at six it meant yet another short night (but then again we're usually all in bed by 11 anyway as doing nothing can be very ...