Chobe National Park 20th July 2012

This is probably getting boring, but we have had another amazing day in Chobe. After an early freezing cold but beautiful morning, we cruised back up the river to Kasane exiting Namibia immigration again, and entering Botswana. We said goodbye to Daniel, leaving him some food and hoped he had enough petrol to get back. Our car was waiting for us and we headed off to get stocked up for the next week. Kasane was out if diesel so we left to fill up out of town. Back in town , we stocked up on food, botswanan Pula, water and 2 catapults. It was 1:30pm when we entered Chobe park by road, crossing firstly in the main road to the other side of the park. Elephants were sleeping near the road, and we passed Vervet monkeys, Zebra and antelopes. We entered the park proper at Ngoma Gate and immediately hit sand, so stopped to let our tyres down.
After about 10 minutes we came down to the river bed where we were met by about 100 zebra, antelope and a herd of elephants. We continued along the river bank to our campsite for the evening for the rest of the afternoon. There were only a few other cars around as there are no lodges at this part of he park. We came to herds of zebra which would have been in the hundreds, we passed over 100 giraffes and hundreds of antelope mainly steenbok, but a few Sable, Kudu and waterbuck.m

We came across about one hundred vultures feeding on a dead giraffe next to a waterhole. It wasn't obvious how it had died, but it was fairly recent. An ugly sight, they are very unattractive birds. Maribu storks were also joining in the party. We came to our campsite at about 5 pm. We couldn't have asked for a better site. It was at the start of the river bend, looking out across a massive flood plain. Within 100.m were about 300 elephants, a couple of hundred zebra, baboon, antelopes and hippos grunting from the river. The elephants were swimming across the river where there was more grass.

Location:Chobe