Kasane, Botswana Travel Blogs

Gameless Game Drive in Chobe!
Apr 23, 2006 (14 photos)

... the addition of a pre-scrub, also existed for the washing up the pots and pans. Now on to the important stuff. Tried 2 Botswana beers that evening. Lt. Louis and Hansa. What a load of crap. No offense to Bud drinkers, but this stuff really did taste ...

A View to A Kill
Oct 11, 2005 (6 photos)

... where moneyed tourist come to spend vast sums of cash to see African wildlife at it's finest and most abundant. In my travels through Botswana I'd heard a lot about Chobe, and had chalked it up to my list of places to visit on my next tour of Africa. But ...

Botswana - Chobe National Park
Mar 29, 2006 (12 photos)

... a leisurely cruise on the Chobe river along the edge of the park. The Chobe river is the border between Namibia and Botswana, and many animals are found along the shores or crossing the river. The number of hippos and elephants that we spotted during ...

Tiger moths and staring the overland tour
Apr 21, 2006 (7 photos)

... great views, wind blowing through the truck with Paul Simon playing on the Ipod. A bit of a different experience to public transport. Botswana must have been the quickest border crossing I'd had, not even a form to fill in! The real bonus though was a ...

Hippos, Crocs and so much more
Sep 20, 2003 (5 photos)

The last National Park of the overland tour - Chobe NP in Botswana. The landscape is quite different to the other parks we've been to because of the Chobe River, which runs along the side of the park. This means there are still the same arid areas as in ...

Ode to a Crappy Canadian TV Show
Aug 26, 2007 (1 photos)

This is in appreciation of a crappy Canadian television show that was made in the 70's and early 80's. I never realized how much impact it had on me. It was called "The Littlest Hobo". Those of you who know it, sing along. "Maybe Tomorrow" There ...

Arriving in Botswana
Jan 13, 2008 (17 photos)

We have a little breakkie and I call the girls with our Namibian SIM, before crossing the Botswana border. We have a foot and mouth check and disinfection at the border. The friendly girls is  surprised to finds nothing but drinks in our cool box. At ...

"Choc-a-bloc Chobe" Game Park, Botswana
Nov 20, 2007 (20 photos)

... a feast for the eyes of African wildlife and our guide was incredibly informative. We really recommend doing a camping trip into Botswana from Vic Falls. The company was "Chobezi" but we booked it through the hostel where we were staying "Fawlty ...

Elephants, Elephants, Elephants!
Aug 27, 2007 (118 photos)

... , a short ferry ride across the Zambezi, and we (I was travelling with an Israeli Canadian name Aric) were through customs and into Botswana. While we were waiting on the Zambian side for the ferry, I thought we might be able to get a ride into town. It ...

We eat worms !
Jan 15, 2008 (3 photos)

Today, we sleep in. Lazy breakkie at 10. We drive to town: do our laundry and go to the internet cafe. The connection are very slow. Cannot send you my movies! Then: a bad thunderstorm and I mean: bad. The internet crashes every 10 minutes. After an ...

Clutch plate, who needs them anyway?
Feb 8, 2005

Monday afternoon we departed for Kasane, a town just a few km south of the Zambia border. We arrived at camp and took a quick swim in the pool. From our elevated view at the bar, we watched with blind eyes as the security guard stood smiling and shaking ...

Into Botswana
Oct 20, 2006

... ...it's a hard life I tell you We left the campsite in Victoria Falls on Monday morning and crossed the border into Botswana. The journey itself was really quick and we arrived at Kasane shortly before lunchtime. We then set up out tents (which wasn't ...

Gotta tell ya about this....
Aug 22, 2005

Hi Everyone Well we crossed into Botswana about an hour ago and stopped in this town called Kasane to do some shopping, change money, etc and I thought I would take the opportunity to share my Vic Falls experience with you. As I mentioned last time ...

Chobe National Park
Mar 14, 2007 (13 photos)

Sadly we had to leave Zimbabwe and we crossed the border into the slightly more civilised Botswana. There we stopped in Kasane where Rachel and I went looking for some drops for her swollen eye, and then went on a cruise on the Chobe River to see the ...

Chobe river ride
Aug 30, 2009 (7 photos)

Sunday 30th August. Our new group set off from Grubby’s and headed across the border into Botswana where we camped at a town called Kasane which is on the Chobe river of the Chobe national park area. We camped at the Thebe river campsite. Here we ...

Day 188 - Botswana, Kasane - Chobe NP
May 15, 2009

... going for a while no doubt having covered thousands of km's so we gave em a cheer and wave as we drove by. Arrived in Kasane just after 2ish. Stopped off in town for shopping. Wanted to get on the net to check credit card but all internet down so did ...

Animals - big and small!
Aug 20, 2009 (24 photos)

... park (with one exception, which I will mention that in a minute!). After driving to the shower we left to drive in the Kasane direction along the river. We saw loads of animals – huge herds of elephants and buffalo, two big herds of sable, hundreds ...

Truck life
Jul 30, 2006

Spent 2 days back to back on the truck travelling across S.Africa to the north of Botswana....heres a day in the life!! Get up about 6am, possibly am freezing although the weather has warmed recently. Have to pack up and get the tent back in the tiny tent ...

Warthogs, Hippos, and Baboons.. Oh My!
Jul 12, 2006

It was time for yet another border crossing into Botswana. Crossing borders is always a little stressful, but Botswana really has it's act together. After getting stamped and paying a road tax. We headed into Chobe National Park. We got stopped at the ...

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

... , all the while with donkeys, goats, horses and elephants crossing it.  Of course, it is flat as a pancake (topographers in Botswana must have the easiest job in the world).  Initially there are many trees, quite a habitat for elephant, and this ...

Back to real life
May 7, 2005 (5 photos)

... month old English newspapers that have arrived by boat! - before we headed outside to be fetched by Edwin and whisked back here to Kasane. We are now staying in one of the rondavel things they have, which is a bit of a let down after the lovely room here ...

Victoria Falls and Chobe
Dec 27, 2007 (31 photos)

... a blog because I've been on holiday traveling, and I was really looking forward to posting my dozens of photos from Zambia, Botswana and Namibia and writing about all the amazing things that Darryl and I did. That was before we got robbed at knifepoint in ...

Hooray - To Ihaha!!
Aug 19, 2009 (12 photos)

11.50 (although it says 10.50 on the clock!) We had a bit of a problem this morning as we had the boats booked, one for 6.30 and one for 8 o'clock. This sounds fine, but what we didn’t know was that The Caprivi runs on Bots and SA time, so they are ...

Chobe National Park and Myles' B-day
May 22, 2006 (5 photos)

More adventures through northern Botswana... After leaving the campsite with the San tribe we drove to Chobe National park and did a game drive and a sunset cruise. The game drive was incredibly cold! No animals. It was about 40 degrees in an open-air ...

Finally arrive in Botswana
Apr 29, 2004 (4 photos)

Chobe Safari Lodge Our room is surprisingly large with sliding doors looking out to the Zambezi River. The brush by the river is thick enough to almost completey obscure the water but there are all kinds of warning signs to "Beware of Hippos". On ...

On the Banks of the Chobe
Sep 16, 2006 (1 photos)

... we began a new leg of the trip - in search of wild animals. The adventures began in Chobe National Park, one of Botswana's best game parks, where beasts of all sizes come to resource themselves on the banks of the Chobe River. We encountered several ...

Chobe
Jun 20, 2007 (17 photos)

Chobe

Lions and buffaloes of Chobe
Apr 29, 2008 (14 photos)

April 28, afternoon safari.  LIONS LIONS LIONS.  Mario and I had wanted to see lions in parks of Namibia (Etosha), Botswana (Okavanga Delta and Chobe) but to date had failed in our sights and safari treks.  Thus, we decided to try a last ...

More elephants!
May 5, 2005 (10 photos)

... chilling out for a bit yesterday we went to organise some tours for today. We had read (in the Lonely Planet giude to Botswana - sadly no longer in print, endless thanks to M for getting me a copy, especially since it looks like she nicked it, which ...

Chobe National Park
Apr 28, 2008 (26 photos)

... a 1-street town with a couple lodges and parks all around.  In other words, heaven for game viewing! This is it for Botswana.  In leaving this country tomorrow, I have to say that my week here has been incredible.  From Ghanzi to Maun to ...