Tour Day 7 – Chobe River
Today we journey to the area of Chobe National Park, home to the largest elephant population in Southern Africa. The best way to appreciate one of Botswana's national parks and its thousands of resident elephants, crocodiles, and hippos, is on an optional sunset boat cruise on the Chobe River. You may also choose to embark on a game drive in search of lions, antelope, and of course elephants.
We arrive in Kasane around noon where we have time for a bit of shopping before heading to our camp for the night. We lounge around the site for a couple hours – reading, chatting, etc. – before we board a pontoon boat which takes us on a sunset cruise of Chobe National Park.
By this point in our trip we’re getting pretty familiar with “going on safari”, so it’s a fresh change to be experiencing game viewing from the river. From our boat, we’re able to get our “hippo fill”…
Our “elephant fill”…
Our “crocodile fill”…
And our African buffalo fill.
Oh and of course, our sunset fill.
It’s all very satisfying.
The other highlight for Eric is that he’s taught how to make Australian damper by Jean, the lone Australian in our group. “Damper” is bread traditionally made by the Aborigines of Australia. It’s very biscuit-like and is baked on the open coals of the campfire. Unfortunately he has to contend with 20 backseat-bakers as we all sit around the fire watching Eric cook the bread on the way-too-hot coals, but in the end it turns out pretty-good for a first time effort!
Eric’s already trying to figure out how to make damper on the BBQ back home.
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