Chobe National Park

The most prominent feature of the Chobe National Park is the huge concentration of elephants. It is not only the elephants that make this very special park worth visiting, but also the astounding natural beauty. This park has an amazing variety of habitats, ranging from floodplains, baobab, and mopane trees and acacia woodlands, to verdant flood grasslands and thickets bordering the Chobe River.

Flowing along the parks northern boundaries are the Linyanti and Chobe Rivers, while in the south the Savuti Channel brings life to the Mababe Depression. Over and above the elephants, the Chobe National Park has an amazing variety of game, and many brilliantly coloured birds.

The Savuti Channel, a strange waterway, which apparently seems to have a mind of its own, bisects the Chobe National Park. This unusual waterway was dry for one hundred years, but then flooded abruptly in the 1950’s and remained flooded till the 1980’s, when shiftings of the subterranean tectonic plates caused it to dry up again.