Blogs from Chobe National Park, North-West, Botswana, Africa - page 10

A very early start for a game drive in the Chobe National Park. We loaded into small open-sided trucks at 6am. Amazingly within five minutes of entering the park we saw a relaxing leopard ad our first close hippos (we’d seen some from the air in Okavango). We toured around the park for about two hours seeing many interesting birds as well as animals. We saw buffalo close for the first time as well as elephants, kudu, warthogs, pxxx (like impala), numerous impala, guinea fowl everywhere, two lionesses and a charming bright green chameleon who crossed our path very slowly. Unfortunately the interesting creatures create traffic jams as the trucks radio each other. Back at the camp I saw the largest lizard I’ve seen yet. In the late afternoon we went on a cruise on ... read more

We arrived in Botswana and were amazed to experience a border crossing where security was something more than a hut and bamboo sticks, and the whole process took less than five hours. We drove to Chobe National Park which is definitely the most amazing place I have been so far, we did a jeep and barge safari and saw more than 100 elephants - the barge takes you right up to little floating islands in the river where the elephants are grazing and washing themselves so we got so close up to them it was fantastic! After the trauma of the 75,000 crocodiles at the farm in Zambia we were all a bit on edge to see yet more 8 metre male crocs on the shore too, and saw an elephant that had drowned and was ... read more

Hello, everyone. We have just spent three days just outside Chobe National Park, which is spectacular. (We are in a small town named Kasane and staying in a Lodge on the Chobe River.) We've seen just about all the big animals one can see in Africa, including the Big 5. We checked off Lion and Leopard in the past three days in our game drives in the park. There are no fences between the park and the town, so one is taking their life into their own hands if they walk the streets at night. (We haven't!) :-) Zach and Bill went fishing yesterday on the Chobe River. Zach caught two Tiger Fish (the most famous fresh water game fish in Southern Africa) They are known for their fighting. Bill caught nothing, but still managed to ... read more

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May 3, 2006 - Day 18 - This morning we crossed back into Botswana and directly into Chobe National Park. We had about 80min of driving in the park and saw nothing. Got to camp just outside of the town of Kasane. Had some time to go into town while others got some US dollars for the next portion of the trip. Turned out to be super boring and a painfully slow experience. Got back to camp in time for those who were taking an optional game drive. I opted for the evening cruise instead, which turned out to be a mistake. On the game drive they saw lions close up and bunches and bunches of elephants. Elephants on land, elephants in the water, elephants everywhere you looked. On the boat cruise we saw about 5 ... read more