Kasane, Botswana Travel Blogs

... 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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... 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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... 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 ...

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... 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 ...

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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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... 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 Towers ...

A travel blog entry by heatheravan
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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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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 the ...

A travel blog entry by tonyandmarina
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... , 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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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... ...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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

... 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

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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 drive in Chobe as ...

... 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 ...

... than 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 Kasane, ...

Kasane is a city right outside of Chobe National Park. We stayed at Toro Safari Lodge. The first evening we arrived out whole group went on a sunset cruise down the Chobe river. It was amazing, animals everywhere! I saw more animals on this cruise than I ...

... , the elephant population is much higher than it should be, says Tim Race, who runs wildlife and other expeditions around Botswana. "The elephants know where it's safe and they go there," he explains. It's very difficult to figure exactly how many of ...

... Joe cooks another masterpiece and we chill for the rest of the day ... 27th Dec Thebe Campsite, Kasane, Chobe Game Park, Botswana, 17.7857S 25.1822E Alt 939m Floating along in Hippo Heaven Keywords - Games drive in a big ...

We had 2 exciting days and 3 game drives in our open-sided Land Rover Defender 4 WD vehicle in Moremi Reserve.We saw lions, hippos, elephants, jackals, servals, crocodiles, giraffe, wildebeest, malibu, letchwie, kudu, and a great variety of birds---heron, ...

We are now in Kasane. The drive from Francistown yesterday was really good! WE got up early and ended up in Pie City for breakfast - which was actually really nice (the breakfast of champions) and then packed up the car, checked out of the lodge and ...