Chobe National Park

A very long drive from Francistown to Kasane, will bring us to Chobe National Park. Along the way we see a few typical African Villages, Botswana is very lightly populated, we see very few villages or small towns.

We do see animals along the highway, here we have an ostrich crossing the road in front of us. Isn’t he big?!

We are also warned about elephants crossing, we keep our eyes peeled all day long.

After a very long day driving, we arrive at our campsite, and are treated to a wonderful sunset. We go to bed early, as the next day is jam packed with activities.

We get up early, as our morning safari leaves at 5.45am. Early morning usually is a good time to view the animals, and we have a higher chance of seeing the ever elusive leopard and hard to spot lions.

Our guide stops and points into the sand. There are tracks in the sand. Ecole Robert Browning, do you know from which animal?

The jeep safari takes a good 3 hours over very, very rough roods, be are being shook around like crazy. Here we stop for a well deserved cup of tea.

Chobe National Park has around 110,000.00 Elephants. We do see many of them.

Unfortunatly, no Rhynos remain in the park. The reason for that I do not have to write about, too sad. 

Here we have to wait to let a group of elephants by. They are walking very fast, where are they headed?

Ahhh, to the Sambesi River, to drink and cool off!

Once back in camp, we take a couple of hours to relax and enjoy the beautiful setting of our camp site. There is a lodge, restaurant and a swimming pool.

Later on in the afternoon, we go on a boat safari, again on the Sambesi River. The Sambesi River is the same river we will go and visit in Zimbabe to see Victoria Falls, but more on that later.

From our vantage point on the boat, we see much wild life. The river’s edge is full of crocodiles, they love to soak in the heat.

There are also many, many hyppos in the water, most of the time they stay together in family groups. They can stay under water for up to 6 minutes. Here we got pretty close …

And of course, to end this report, a beautiful picture of a large group of elephants on the rivers edge, drinking and cooling off. I love elephants!