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Kasane Slideshow
Kasane
Travel Blogs from Kasane, Botswana
Chobe
... angebracht. Und tatsächlich haben wir die 'grauen Riesen' unterwegs gesehen. Ganz gemütlich haben diese am Strassenrand gefressen... Kasane => Chobe-Nationalpark Von Kasane aus sind wir 2 Tage in den Chobe-Nationalpark gefahren. Hier haben wir ...
Chobe National Park
... boatman stopped in the middle of the river to point out the fact that we were at a point where four countries meet: Zambia, Botswana, New Mexico and Arizona. Or was it Namibia and Zimbabwe? Anyway, it was four countries. We arrived on the other side ...
Chobe NP
... to the bar after dinner! Weds 27th May. Day 17 We left our Nata camp this morning at 7am to drive to Toro Safari Lodge, near Kasane, our gateway to Chobe NP. This was by far the worst stretch of road on our trip so far, there were potholes the size of ...
Greatest steak ever.
... and signalled the start of one of our longest drives for the whole fifteen days (10 hours plus). Retracing our steps through Botswana, we again passed the regular occasional herd of elephants before arriving in Nata to quickly stretch some legs and grab a ...
Elephants doing the backstroke
... visibility, we leave Mushatu Sept 11and skip the river delta where we were supposed to spot thousands of flamingos. We head direct to Kasane, Botswana. Upon landing, Big Dave directs us to our parking spot. Dave has to stand up to apply the brakes so we ...
Wildlife in Chobe, plus a Brief Visit to Namibia
... overpriced for everyone else ($30 apiece, with no discount for having 18 people going). The border formalities exiting and entering Botswana and Namibia took almost an hour of our 2-hour excursion, and additional time was taken up by boat travel and ...
i hate camping
Jan 19 Today we head into Botswana and Chobe again. The border crossing is much slower with the truck, as we have to wait for a ferry to take us all. It's rainy and humid today, so glad I will be able to upgrade once there. You can tell how young this ...
Visit the Victoria Falls
Today we cross the Zimbabwe border to see what Bob (Mugabe) has left for us to see. Arriving at the falls we were greeted by hordes of blacks swamping us with Zim Dollar notes and other junk, there is no control and I found it to be highly irritating, to ...
Day Eighteen - Chobe Safari Lodge
... unwell. We set off at 9am as we had a long drive ahead of us, including the ferry crossing and the border crossing back into Botswana. The early start turned out to be a good decision as we waited over two hours for the ferry crossing, taking a big ...
Kabula Lodge Western Zambia
Kabula Lodge Western Zambia 1st & 2nd August 2009 It's an easy drive from Kongola to Katima Mulilo on the B4, it’s tarred and you just have to watch for elephants. The border crossing at the Namibian side was just a matter of filling out a ...
From Zimbabwe's Falls to Botswana's Wildlife
... ’t working. I went to the supermarket to buy some water (“pula” in the Tswana language) with pula (Botswana currency) and then returned to the lodge to see the younger part of our group laying out by the pool. They were ...
Francistown to Kasane
6 hours on a minibus - P59 Liya Lodge - P230 Dinner at Chobe Safari Hotel watching the sunset over the Chobe river to the accompanyment of hippo noises. There was also a party of 20 SAGA ...
Elephants of Namibia
... more within the rule of law. "X Patrick credits the previous PM (who was education in the US) with preventing a war with Botswana by encouraging negotiation over conflict. "X We saw some poles that used to support a solar panel, which provided power to ...
Game Drive in Chobe National Park
All varieties of green color are concentred here in Chobe River, where calm waters create a play of life... hippos, elephants, giraffes, lions, kudús, buffalo, sable antilop, impalas, whartog, ...
Mouth and Foot Disease!
... by breakfast at 8 to be able to leave at 9. And we were on the road! We started by heading straight for Botswana. We made it through customs easily to exit Zambia but to get to Botswana we had to take a ferry across the Zambezi ...
Enter Bostwana, 40 Today
... disinfect our shoes and sandals due to foot and mouth. We all stepped on a dirty rag as we were in and heading to Kasane! Botswana suddenly feels more modern, more South African. By the way, my neighbour Michelle had given me a birthday card to bring ...
Nursing the hangover and Chobe National Park
... flying around. We sailed north up to a point where there was a large island in the middle of the river which belongs to Botswana. We were treated for over three hours to a variety of wildlife. We saw lots of crocodiles, hippos, elephants, giraffes, kudu ...
Chobe - Elephants for Africa
... saw on the whole trip “Look those baboons are doing it...That did not last long” - Janine Then down through Botswana stopping at Elephant Sands (Nata) and Palapye. At great night was held at Elephant Sands listening to the wildlife ...
Trip to Chobe Safari Lodge
... River in 30 minutes. The original inhabitants of this area were the San bushmen (also known as the Basarwa people in Botswana). They were nomadic hunter-gatherers who were constantly moving from place to place to find food sources, namely fruits, ...
Kasane
... afforded us our closest view of a leopard but unfortunately it was very brief. We also went for a cruise at sunset on the Chobe River to see the some of the millions of elephants that Botswana has, as well as crocodiles, hippos, cape buffalo and ...
Zambia, Namibia and Botswana
... . For anyone who’s ever been to Niagara Falls, Ontario, it is kind of similar. After Livingstone we headed to Botswana, where we’d be staying for several days and touring the Chobe National Park. We participated in two game drives, one in the ...
Banded brothers,hippo rafts and Leopard napping
Next day was a free day and we opted for two optional tours, a river safari in the morning and an afternoon game drive. We were hoping to increase our chances of seeing more animals and we were not disappointed. As there were only about a dozen of us on ...
Into Botswanna
... to safeguard against "foot and mouth" disease crossing the border.(As a note, the borders of four countries, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia, intersect at the crossing) Our driver took us to the wrong hotel and after a few calls, we ...