• Chobe National Park

    The 4,200 square mile Chobe National Park can be found in the northern region of Botswana, along the Chobe River, which straddles the borders of Botswana and Namibia. The nation’s second largest national park, Chobe has become renowned for excellent year-round game viewing opportunities and its namesake river supports the largest elephant concentrations found anywhere on the continent. Habitats found within Chobe National Park include floodplains, mopane trees, baobab trees, acacia woodlands, and flood grasslands bordering the Chobe River.

    Chobe serves as home to a variety of wildlife including huge herds of buffalo, zebra, and of course Elephant with an estimated population of over 120,000! The Chobe elephants are migratory, making seasonal movements of up to 120 miles in a circuit from the Chobe and Linyanti rivers, where they concentrate in the dry season, to the pans in the southeast of the park, where they gather during the rainy season. The park also hosts more unusual antelope species like Roan and Sable, Puku, Tsessebe, Eland, Red Lechwe, Waterbuck, and the rare Chobe Bushbuck. Other more popular species such as Giraffe, Kudu, Warthog, Wildebeest and Impala also abound here. In addition to its animal residents, Chobe has a fascinating human history, its original inhabitants being the San people, hunter gatherers who moved from area to area seeking food and water.