Chobe National Park Game Drive

When we were in Kasane, we went on an early morning game drive in Chobe National Park with Richard and Brenda. We left the lodge so that we were inside the park by the time it got light. We watched a beautiful sunrise.

 

Each time we saw big cats, lions and leopards, there were always lots of other safari trucks there too because everyone wanted to see the cats. This was quite different from our Madikwe game drives where only three trucks were ever allowed to be at one site. We watched a leopard hunt impala for almost an hour. The leopard was not successful possibly because there were ten trucks and the impalas detoured just enough to be out of the cat's range. They never knew the cat was there even though we were watching it the whole time. Because we watched the leopard for so long we had a longer than usual drive and were late returning to the lodge.

There are a hundred thousand elephants in Chobe and we saw many groups. Most of them with young elephants as well as fully-grown elephants. One elephant challenged our safari truck while we were stopped watching the elephants. It came right up to the front of the truck flared its ears and trumpeted. Brenda was looking elsewhere at the time and the trumpet scared her. Our driver said this was "teenage exuberance".

 

From up on a hill we had a good look at the "rocks", actually hippopotamus, on the bank of the Chobe River. They love sleeping in the mud.

 

 

We saw many other animals including giraffe, and a large herd of sables. Brenda has always liked warthogs and we saw many of these. We always got a kick out of the fact that whenever they are running they keep their tails straight up.