Katane - Chobe National Park

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We stopped at a wholesaler to spend our left over Zim dollars & stocked up the bar with red label Smirnoff vodka for less than US$2 a bottle & then set off for another border crossing into Botswana. When we got to the Katane campsite they said there was space & we drove down to pitch our tents. Unfortunately the only space was next to the Chobe river on paths made by crocs & hippos. As soon as the tents were up we rushed to the jetty passing grazing warthogs & playful banded mongooses & took a boat trip down the river. Chobe National Park isn't short of animals, from sun-basking crocodiles & mud-wallowing hippos to herds of elephants & buffalos, in every direction there was always something flying, swimming, feeding or peeing (as one elephant was doing for an extraordinarily long time & volume, making you wonder exactly what the source of the river was). We returned after sunset & slept amidst the noise of hippos, hoping that it wouldn't get significantly louder or closer.

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[aj]

I think we have a budding wildlife photographer of the year here...I'm very impressed