Chobe National Park, Botswana

Chobe Safaris, luxury game lodges & safari camp reviews

River Cruise, Chobe Game Lodge, viewing herds of elephant

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Chobe National Park lies in the north-east of Botswana, teeming with animals, in particular with huge herds of elephant and buffalo. The elephant population, estimated to be 30,000, is the largest concentration in Africa with herds of up to 500 elephant or more at the end of the dry season. Large prides of lions have learnt to hunt them which adds to the safari excitement.

We have played slightly fast and loose with Chobe’s boundaries as within our Chobe we include three safari areas: the game lodges and safari camps on the Chobe River, the safari camps in the Savute Channel, or Savute marsh as it is also known, and the safari camps of the Linyanti, Selinda and Kwando private concessions to the west of Chobe National Park.

The key to Chobe lies in the complex animal migrations which follow an ancient pattern, only partly understood by man. Broadly speaking, the game is drawn to the Chobe and Kwando river, with their verdant floodplains, during the dry winter season and spreads out to the open grasslands of the Savute marsh, the interior pans of the Mababe depression and the western private concessions during the wetter summer months. Correspondingly, our Chobe safaris focus on these three areas and this is where the game lodges and safari camps are concentrated.

Travel to Chobe
A Chobe safari is easily combined with Victoria Falls, only 1½ hours away by road. From the local Kasane airport you can fly easily to the Okavango Delta, to the Linyanti concessions or to Savute. Most of our safaris combine a couple of days in the Chobe area with a few days in the Delta. We particularly recommend the romantic Chobe river for safari honeymoons.