Category: Chobe

Ngoma Safari Lodge, Botswana: a view to lust after

30/8/2016

By Roxanne Reid
Ngoma Safari Lodge lies in the Chobe Forest Reserve, outside Ngoma Gate in the west of Chobe National Park, Botswana. We visited to see Chobe’s wildlife, but discovered something equally special: a view to lust after. If you can stay here without falling madly-wildly in love with the view, then you’re either near-sighted and should be wearing specs, or you simply have no soul that can be stirred.

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Tutored photo safari on the Chobe River, Botswana

16/8/2016

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By Roxanne Reid
‘Incoming on the right! Here it comes.’ Six people swivelled on their chairs and pointed their cameras in the same direction, trying to find the bird in flight. A seventh peered through his binoculars. We were on a tutored photo safari on the Chobe River, something a little different from the usual game drive or sunset cruise.

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Voices of Botswana: the tree man of Ngoma

28/7/2016

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By Roxanne Reid
When you arrive at Ngoma Safari Lodge on the western border of Chobe National Park, the view from the main deck will blow your mind. It looks out over the veld, a baobab tree and a waterhole towards the Chobe River. If you’re lucky when you stay here, you might meet the tree man of Ngoma.

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See elephants on a Chobe River boat cruise

19/7/2016

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Boat cruise on the Chobe River, Botswana

By Roxanne Reid
Chobe National Park has the highest concentration of elephants in Africa. Because they love water, one of the best ways to see them is on a Chobe River boat cruise. Best of all, if you stay at Chobe Game Lodge you can experience the river and its wildlife on a whisper-quiet electric boat.

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Highlights of Chobe, Botswana

21/6/2016

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By Roxanne Reid
Chobe National Park in northern Botswana is famous for its large elephant population and its beautiful riverfront drive in the Serondela section. Although Chobe encompasses other ecosystems like the Savuti Marsh and Linyanti Swamps, I’ve concentrated here on the section from Ngoma Gate in the west, hugging the Chobe River to the Sedudu Gate near Kasane in the east.

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Drive Chobe like Kingsley Holgate

4/3/2013

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Entrance gate, Chobe National Park, Botswana

Chobe National Park. It’s the place to go to see really jumbo elephants and get good photo opportunities with hippo, crocs and water birds along the river. But the biggest drawback is having to drive the same road over and over in a loop; for us, national parks are as much about changing landscape as they are about animals.

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South Africans invade Kasane, Botswana

27/2/2013

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After two weeks in friendly, colourful Zambia, we found Kasane on the edge of the Chobe National Park in Botswana way too busy and full of South Africans for our liking.

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