Chobe National Park Botswana
Botswana
789
Cruises availables
At departure or passage at this port
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Zambezi Queen
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MV Zimbabwean Dream
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RV African Dream
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Frequently Asked Questions
At Kasane, a small town on the south bank near where four countries meet. There is no concrete landing: after immigration formalities, a tender collects travellers and runs out to the mother ship anchored offshore.
Safari cruise vessels such as the Zambezi Queen and the Chobe Princess boats. They move from one anchorage to another, at sites like Kasai, Elephant Bay or Leguva, depending on the day's programme.
Because the park holds Africa's largest concentration of elephants and the river along it serves as their daily crossing. You watch herds swim to Sedudu Island, trunks raised above the water.
The dry season, May to October. Herds then converge on the river and sightings follow one another effortlessly. Outside the dry season, wildlife disperses inland and viewing becomes far less reliable.
Hippos snorting between dives, crocodiles on the sandbanks, buffalo coming down to drink by the hundred, giraffes splaying their long legs to reach the water. More than 460 bird species frequent the area.
The main vessel stays the base camp. To approach, you transfer to low, quiet tenders that slip along the banks. At water level, an elephant showering itself takes on an entirely different scale.
The late afternoon outing, when the light turns golden and the animals come back out. It is the most sought-after slot, and the guides know each herd's habits.
Yes. From Kasane, a roughly three-hour game drive slots easily into the programme, early morning or late afternoon. The tracks follow the bank and reveal what the water does not show: kudu, impala, sometimes lions.
Yes, they are about 80 kilometres away, roughly an hour and a half by road including the Zimbabwe border crossing. The round trip fits in a day, but you trade the calm of the river for the roar of the Zambezi.
For families with children old enough to sit still in a small boat, yes. The vessel becomes a motionless observatory in the middle of the park, with no fence and no stray light: few port calls offer the privilege of sleeping inside a game reserve.
