Short Breaks to Chobe National Park

A short guide about Chobe National Park

Take a Safari holiday to the Chobe National Park in northwest Botswana, the country's first national park sporting a wonderful concentration of animals. It may be the third largest park in the country, but it is the most diverse with one of the largest game concentrations on the Africa continent, after the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and the Gemsbok National Park.

Here you can enjoy a Fishing Tour along the banks of the Chobe River, a small graceful river with deep pools combined with a series of rapids and white water. The river flows along the northern edge of the park bordering Botswana and Namibia and its firm banks invite vast quantities of wild animals, especially elephants, to come down to drink in the evenings. This extravagant park is probably best known for its spectacular population of 60,000 Kalahari elephants, which have solidly built up since 1990, from a few thousand.

The original inhabitants of this area were the San Bushmen; who were nomadic hunter-gatherers, constantly moving from place to place to find food, mainly fruits, water and wild animals. Nowadays tourists can find San paintings inside the rocky hills of the park.

Tourabout has quite a range of tours that provide Sanctuary Lodges and Camps in the unique wilderness of the Chobe National Park. These include – the public camping grounds at Serondela with flush toilets, basins, showers and hot water. The Linyanti has a number of private concessions where Luxury Camps have been built. And the Savuti Marsh is the relic of a large inland lake providing a temporary camping ground and Noghatsaa yet to be developed but is a great place for spotting Elands.