Blog Posts in Category: Botswana

Overlanding Day 18: Senyati Safari Camp to Victoria Falls

Unfortunately today was the day where we had to give our truck back, to end the self-drive section of our overlanding trip. We had a lie in and woke up naturally, which was a nice change to the past few days. After getting up we packed our things, before heading into Kasane for breakfast and then headed to Bushlore to give the truck back. Bushlore took us to the border, where immigration was very quick and easy and we were picked up by a taxi from Victoria Falls. This was all very smooth and we then made good time to get to Victoria Falls, which enabled us to chill out before our dinner cruise on the Zambezi. The dinner cruise was very civilised, with great food, an open bar and some wildlife thrown into the mix. After the cruise, we met up with a group of cyclists who we had been constantly bumping into over the previous week for one beer, which turned into many beers and getting back to out hotel after midnight, which was less then ideal for the early start the next morning.

Overlanding Day 17: Ihaha Camp to Senyati Safari Camp (Chobe National Park)

Today we started the day with a morning game drive, which was the quietest drive we have had so far but we saw our biggest crocodile and had a lovely experience with a family of elephants, where the baby just wanted to play with his cousin, while the cousin just wanted to sleep. When we arrived in Kasane we enjoyed some good coffee, before having Chobe Bream for lunch, quite a contrast from the last few days in the wilderness! In the afternoon we did a sunset river cruise which was wonderful with elephants playing in the river, and more importantly, hippos in great light on the ground and a hippo yawning in great light in the river. Morning Game Drive After watching elephants moving around literally just outside our roof tent as we went to sleep, we were a bit disappointed to wake up with no elephants, one of our thoughts was to have breakfast watching the sunrise from our campsite over the elephants. It is safe to say the drive this morning started off fairly slowly, the elephants had all vanished to wherever they were sleeping, and it. Read the full article…

Overlanding Day 16: Chobe National Park (Savuti-Ihaha)

We got up for a sunrise game drive, which was very successful, as we saw a pride of lions twice, the first time in the golden hour in the morning and the pride had a very young cub. To top if off, we were able to be on the perfect side of them to take advantage of the light. It has to be said that the rest of the drive was fairly uneventful, with just some bok, a few elephants and a few giraffe. Sadly, the leopard at leopard rock remained elusive. We then drove out of the are we were in and up to the Chobe Waterfront area, for our next night, in another wild unfenced campsite. En-route to the campsite we did another self-drive, although there aren’t many photos due to the midday light. On our evening drive we saw so many elephants, it really was unbelievable, some water buffalo (a first in the wild) and some giraffe. Our evening was spent at camp, watching elephants no more than 50m away from us, and listening to lions roaring. We had a decent campfire, to, hopefully, keep them at. Read the full article…

Overlanding Day 15: Entering Botswana and Chobe National Park

Sadly today was the day where we left Namibia, but we headed deep in the Chobe National Park to make up for it. After an early start, where we had breakfast as soon as we could, we got on the road to make the long journey to Savuti campsite in Chobe National Park. The journey was all pretty easy, if slightly slow going at times, much better than the horror stories of deep sand that I had read about. When we arrived in the national park we did a self-drive safari, where we had a wonderful time seeing lots of wildlife, the highlights being seeing elephants bathing in the water and seeing two very small elephants playing together. The day finished watching zebra walking across the plain in the beautiful golden hour light. Unfortunately we did not see any cats, which was a shame, fingers crossed for tomorrow morning.  Entering Botswana and the Drive Soon after leaving we crossed the border into Botswana, which was all very quick and easy, surprisingly we didn’t even need to open our fridge to show we were not importing any banned items (meat, dairy,. Read the full article…