Chobe
National Park, Botswana Safaris
Map of Chobe National Park
Chobe
National Park Botswana Safaris
Chobe National
Park is one of the world's last remaining true wilderness areas
and one of Africa's greatest game parks. Chobe is the third
largest park in Botswana (after the Central Kalahari Game Reserve
and the remote Gemsbok National Park in the south-western corner
of the country) and covers an area of 10,698 square kilometres.
Chobe however, is unquestionably the most spectacular and diverse
of Botswana's areas, even more so than the celebrated Okavango
Delta.
Chobe National Park is home to huge herds of Elephant, Buffalo, and Burchell's
Zebra and high densities of predators such as Lion, Leopard, Spotted Hyena and
Cheetah. The park is also notable for the presence of more unusual antelope species
like Roan and Sable, Puku, Tsessebe, Eland, Red Lechwe, Waterbuck, and the rare
Chobe Bushbuck. Other more popular species such as Giraffe, Kudu, Warthog, Wildebeest
and Impala also abound.
Chobe 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 park's 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 currently
dry waterway (see more on the channel in
our Linyanti page), which
alternately flows and then dries for years at a time, bisects the
Chobe National Park and empties into the Savuti Marsh. The Savuti
Marsh area is well known for its coverage in a number of well known
wildlife documentaries, especially
the National Geographic films by Dereck and Beverly Joubert. Situated
on the bed of a once-huge Paleo super-lake, Savuti is comprised of rich
grasslands, savannah woodland and a large variety of trees and vegetation.
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