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Jennyfer
FR
Visited:
December 2015
Reviewed: Jan 6, 2016
Email Jennyfer | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A great place for wildlife lovers
Chobe National Park is an amazing place for wildlife and safari lovers.
The parc is really beautiful and the guides very competent. I did an early morning drive and saw lions, baboons, elephants, giraffes...
I also did the cruise on Chobe river and it will remain as one of the highlights of my stay in Botswana. Everyone is very quiet and respectful of the animals, you can observe crocodiles, hippos, herds of elephants and a large variety of birds.
I definitely recommend this place!
Siri
NO
Visited:
April 2015
Reviewed: Jan 5, 2016
Email Siri | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Exciting and inspiring!
I think it was great. All of it. From the beginning of the drive till sleeping in the tents.
Laurie Mulrine
GB
Visited:
November 2015
Reviewed: Dec 21, 2015
Email Laurie Mulrine | 65+ years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Chobe gives the opportunity to experience the bush in a river setting and a rich mix of species.
We completed the whole trip in a two wheeled drive VW Polo, which was perfectly adequate for the majority of the trip and was very frugal on petrol. However, this means that access to Chobe National Park in your own vehicle is not possible, due to the sandy nature of the roads in the Park and the need for good ground clearance. Instead it was necessary to use game drives, which whilst costly, has the advantage of a driver / guide, which gives you a greater opportunity for viewing and photography.
Elephants abound in Chobe and it is nice to see them visit the river in groups for bathing and drinking. Buffalo
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are also common.It is particularly important to visit the Park on a boat trip from Kasane. Not only does this give a different viewing dimension but it provides the opportunity to have close encounters with Buffalo , Hippo and Crocs. The rare Puku and Red Lechwe antelope species were easier to see from the boat. The bird species seen along the river are also impressive. Fish eagle, open billed stork and giant kingfisher, being highlights.
Kasane offers a range of accommodation from safari type lodges to bed and breakfast accommodation to suit all tastes. It also has an excellent range of shops, banks, petrol stations and eating establishments. As independent travellers we found it is easy to organise the game drives and boat trips. As a bonus, it is also a good location to visit Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe.
Edwin Remsberg Photographs
US
Visited:
February 2015
Reviewed: Oct 30, 2015
Email Edwin Remsberg Photographs | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
This feels like Africa
Many of Southern Africa's wildlife parks have become developed to the point of disneyfication but not Chobe. It still feels raw, gritty, and intimate. Perfect location for a self drive safari with outstanding human food and lodging also available just outside the park in Kasane.
jess
GB
Visited:
September 2013
Reviewed: Sep 26, 2015
Email jess | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Nowhere else have I seen such huge herds of wild elephants - it was an incredible sight. There was also huge amounts of other wildlife, like baboons, giraffe, antelope and zebra.
Susie
AU
Visited:
June 2015
Reviewed: Aug 19, 2015
Email Susie | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A magical day
After a quick morning tea, the first half of the day was spent in a boat on the Chobe River - we found our guides informative and entertaining. We were delighted by the amount of bird life along the river seeing, among many others, African Fish Eagles, White-fronted Bee-eaters and Great White Egrets. There was plenty of animal life along the banks too - crocodiles, elephants and hippos.
After lunch which was simple but filling, we spent the afternoon in a specially-modified 4x4 vehicle in the Chobe National Park. A highlight of this was seeing the after-math of a leopard-kill. We had a close (but safe) encounter with some elephants, and saw several baboons, impala and giraffes. Unfortunately no lions that day, and zebras were 'out-of-season' - their migratory pattern means they simply
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are not present in Chobe in June. Again, our guide was knowledgeable and entertaining.I would thoroughly recommend a visit to Chobe National Park, and fully intend to go there myself when I am next in southern Africa. To see some pictures from that day, visit https://www.flickr.com/photos/s-haydon/albums/72157655902764278.
michielbesseling
NL
Visited:
April 2015
Reviewed: May 25, 2015
Email michielbesseling | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
An amazing park,
The most popular way to visit Chobe is a river cruise. The boats are huge, but believe me, that doesn't matter.
The boats leave Kasane in the early afternoon. You can bring your own drinks. Enjoy the sun, scenery and wildlife.
You'll see mostly elephants, hippo's, crocodile's and buffalo's. In the dry season herds of elephant and buffalo come to the river side to drink. It's amazing how many animals you'll see. I highly recommend this cruise to everyone.
In the early morning we left for a game drive through the park. We saw the sun rise. The park has beautiful small dirt roads on the river banks, hills and plains. We saw a lot of small game and birds. Springbok and Kudu's. Fish Eagles and Vultures. Mongoose and Baboons.
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Hippo, Buffalo and Giraffe.On a game drive you must be lucky to see the big cats. We were not that lucky.
Philip
Visited:
March 2015
Reviewed: May 18, 2015
An amazing park, with some wonderful encounters with elephants in particular.
Iain in Pagham
GB
Visited:
February 2015
Reviewed: May 17, 2015
Email Iain in Pagham | 65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
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own and met very few people when we wer eout - a real opportunity to feel part of the environment.
chrispenfold
Visited:
February 2014
Reviewed: May 9, 2015
I loved Botswana, especially the Chobe National Park, where we saw an abundance of wildlife and in particular, elephants, monkeys, lions & hippo. We stayed in the North near Kasane.
http://tinyurl.com/pfvy66q I would love to go back.