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Chobe National Park

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The Chobe national park was named after the Chobe river, which forms the northern boundary of the park, whilst to the south it borders onto the Moremi game reserve. It is the second largest national park in Botswana and has one of the greatest concentrations of game found on the African continent.

With a population currently estimated at over 120,000, elephants are a major feature in Chobe. The park also harbours the full range of southern Africa's large predators, as well as the localized puku antelope and a plentiful bird-life.

Not surprisingly for a park of this size Chobe has a variety of quite different ecosystems. The two main focal points for game viewing are the Chobe River Front and the Linyanti Game Reserve in the southern corner of the park. These are described below.

Chobe River Front. The greatest attraction of the Chobe River area is the elephants, which can almost always be seen there. The floodplains around the river make an ideal viewing area, and elephants’ late afternoon visits to waters edge provide hours of absorbing game viewing. Huge herds of buffalo are frequently seen during the dry season, and you can also expect to see tsessbe, waterbuck, roan, eland, sable, giraffe and, if you are lucky, the rare puku.

Chobe River Front Lodges: Chobe Safari Lodge, Muchenje Lodge, Chobe Chilwero.

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Linyanti Game Reserve. The Linyanti is in the remote southern sector of Chobe national park. It comprises a unique mixture of open floodplains, thick mopane woodland and over 900km² of swamps. Together these habitats provide first rate game viewing with great numbers of elephant, buffalo, and zebra congregating at the lagoons, and healthy populations of lion, leopard and cheetah patrolling the grasslands.

Linyanti Lodges: Selinda Camp, Savuti Camp, Kings Pool, Duma Tau, Lagoon Camp, Lebala Camp