Kasane, Botswana Travel Blogs

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Gameless Game Drive in Chobe!, Kasane, Botswana travel blog
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 travel blog entry by jonclark2000
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A View to A Kill, Kasane, Botswana travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by darkstar
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Botswana - Chobe National Park, Kasane, Botswana travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by edamame
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Tiger moths and staring the overland tour, Kasane, Botswana travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by jonclark2000
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Hippos, Crocs and so much more, Kasane, Botswana travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by vicki
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Ode to a Crappy Canadian TV Show, Kasane, Botswana travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by djchurch
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Arriving in Botswana, Kasane, Botswana travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by tonyandmarina
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"Choc-a-bloc Chobe" Game Park, Botswana, Kasane, Botswana travel blog
"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 ...

A travel blog entry by heatheravan
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Elephants, Elephants, Elephants!, Kasane, Botswana travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by djchurch
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We eat worms !, Kasane, Botswana travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by tonyandmarina
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Clutch plate, who needs them anyway?, Kasane, Botswana travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by cdrewitz
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Into Botswana, Chobe and Kasane, Botswana travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by nhoad83
Gotta tell ya about this...., Kasane, Botswana travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by colin
Chobe National Park, Kasane, Botswana travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by angela_louise
Chobe river ride,  Kasane, Botswana travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by kasnsqueak
Day 188 - Botswana, Kasane - Chobe NP, Kasane, Botswana travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by oliveramber
Animals - big and small!, Ihaha, Namibia travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by emmaw
Truck life, Kasane, Botswana travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by bexstable
Warthogs, Hippos, and Baboons.. Oh My!, Kasane, Botswana travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by natecropp
Up The Lazy River, Chobe National Park, Botswana travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by boydandrose
Back to real life, Kasane, Botswana travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by annamac
Victoria Falls and Chobe, Kasane, Botswana travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by beccasmith
Hooray - To Ihaha!!, Ihaha, Namibia travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by emmaw
Chobe National Park and Myles
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 ...

A travel blog entry by mjlankers
Finally arrive in Botswana, Kasane, Botswana travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by homhead
On the Banks of the Chobe, Kasane, Botswana travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by tychii
Chobe, Kasane, Botswana travel blog
Chobe
Jun 20, 2007 (17 photos)

Chobe

A travel blog entry by jamaandgraham
Lions and buffaloes of Chobe, Kasane, Botswana travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by kcgunther
More elephants!, Kasane, Botswana travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by annamac
Chobe National Park, Kasane, Botswana travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry by kcgunther