Blogs from Chobe National Park, North-West, Botswana, Africa - page 4

Botswana has 1.8 million people, a diamond mine, the Kalahari Desert, and 270,000 elephants in Chobe National Park alone. To have a look at the National Park we spent three days at Muchenje Safari Lodge. Getting there from Victoria Falls involved an hour drive to the Zimbabwe-Botswana border, queuing in two hot and stale-smelling immigration offices, then a short ride in the back of a safari vehicle to Kasane and from there another hour along the highway through the park to our lodge. The lodge is quite nice but certainly isn’t the height of luxury, and the lack of air conditioning was a bit of a drawback when the temperatures got up to 38 or 40 in the days we were there. Unlike our previous safari experience it is also outside the National Park boundary, so ... read more

VERDER OP REIS IN HET NOORDEN VAN BOTSWANA: CHOBE PARK EN VICTORIA FALLS... read more

When our 4x4 Isuzu with our very own canvas chateau on top, was delivered to our guest house in Pretoria and I knew then that everything we had planned, talked and dreamed about for the last few years was really now about to come to true. We were about to go camping in Africa----with the animals!! While Ian and Hennie (the owner) got immediately into the mechanics etc etc I just stood there recalling all the wonderful memories of camping around Aus (and remembering my initial thoughts of snakes and spiders)and then began to get very excited about the next and last stage of our “1st taste of Africa” trip, camping out there with elephants, giraffes and cats etc etc …….! Then suddenly I looked up at our bedroom on top and remembered why I had ... read more

Crusin' down the ChobeSunday, August 29. Today we drive to Choble National Park in Botswana which means we have to exit Zim and enter Botswana. My passport is brimming with African entrance and exit stamps. Elbow roomWe drive to a small wharf and catch a boat for a ride down the Chobe river. Most of the tour group opt to ride on top in the very warm sun, which makes it lovely on the bottom deck, shaded and quiet. Besides the pilot, seven of us have the whole space to ourselves. Lots of room to run around and take pics and just see the scenery. The boat steers right up to the land so we have close-up views of crocodiles and huge monitor lizards. We don’t steer right up to the hippos or elephants, of course. ... read more

Jason and I safely made it to our lodge just outside Chobe National Park in Botswana on Tuesday. The internet at the lodge is too expensive so we've waited until today to go into town to an internet cafe to make a post. The internet is slow so I will keep this brief to post as many photos as I can. We've seen every animal we wanted to see while we were here, including lions. The lodge is beautiful and the food is phenomenal. We went to Zimbabwe to Victoria Falls yesterday and were unable to go swimming in the Devil's Pool but we did go rafting on the Zambezi River and it was awesome. I'm going to get to posting photos and I'll write more on Monday from the airport. The computer here wouldn't load ... read more