| Page Views: 1,384 Last Visit to Chobe National Park: October, 1998 | The wildlife is all around us by Alain_Smeets - last update: Aug 30, 2003 |
| Impala's (photo Thieu Kunnen) |
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| Impala's (photo Thieu Kunnen) |
|  | Sunday 18 October we started for Chobe in Botswana, an other border control. When we entered Botswana, a few kilometers further, we were stopped. An official wanted to do a health inspection and a decontamination of the buss. This takes several hours. But Jacques could talk him out of it. Due to the buss (remember that we had an old one), we arrived too late in Chobe. This buss has not enough power to travel. Because of our late arrival we missed the evening drive. And we ended up waiting for several hours before lunch. So the bar was the only option except the pool, but the bar sounds nicer for the wait. While we were waiting outside to get our room keys, we saw a big group of elephants traveling, this was in the distance, a few kilometers further. In the telescope we saw them as the elephant of Cote D’Or (the chocolate). Chobe is a smaller wild park with a lot of open plans and therefore you can see very far. When we arrived at the lodge, several monkeys welcomed us; some of them were carrying a small one on their belly. The weather was hot, more then 30 degrees. There goes my bet. We also missed the sunset. We were inside in the bar and not outside in the dining area. And inside you can’t see the sunset. Bill went outside to see but the rest who was sitting there didn’t bother to go outside to have a look.
Chobe is a good place to visit, nice surrounding like eating next to the river in the nature. The noise of the wilderness accompanies you while eating. We stayed up very late or early. It was nice outside. |
| The swimming pool (photo Thieu Kunnen) |
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Jim_Eliason Sat Jan 24, 2004 17:01 UTC
Great Photos, I am headed to Kruger in March and hope to do as well in spotting wildlife as you did! | buket Sat Jan 24, 2004 14:04 UTC
Wow! Great pictures! It must be wonderful to have been there!! | myriam_c Mon Nov 3, 2003 13:10 UTC
I definitely want to see the BIG 5 again. Scenery in Bots looks totally different than in East Africa. Very nice page!! | sarawakgirl Thu Oct 23, 2003 06:54 UTC
Hi Alain.. great safari trip! |
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