Chobe National Park

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The most accessible and frequently visited park in the country, the Chobe Riverfront, is most famous for the large herds of elephants and Cape buffalo.

The most accessible and frequently visited park in the country, the Chobe Riverfront, is most famous for the large herds of elephants and Cape buffalo that converge on the riverbank to drink during the dry winter months. Visitors can be entertained by elephants’ snorkelling crossing the river, mud bathing or diving! Buffalo are the lions’ favourite dish, and so where there are buffalos there are lions hiding somewhere!

At any season, on an afternoon game drive, you may see hundreds of elephants, more especially during the dry season. The main Serondela Road sometimes becomes impassable as scores of family herds cross the main road to make their way to the river to drink, bathe and play.

Driving the tracks and trails close to the riverbank, you may see as many 15 different species of animals and birds on any one drive. Common species include waterbuck, lechwe, puku (endemic to this area), giraffe, kudu, roan and sable, impala, warthog, bushbuck, monkeys and baboons, along with the accompanying predators such as lion, leopard, hyena and jackal, who are never far away.

Take a river cruise – and you’ll experience the park and wildlife from a completely different vantage point, getting up closer to hippo, crocodile and a mind-boggling array of water birds than you ever would on land.