The Chobe River Front
The
stretch of river from Ngoma in the west, including Serondela and
extending towards Kasane is a rich riverine forest with a marginal
floodplain. This northern section is considered to be one of southern
Africa's finest short game viewing drives - an area renowned for its
elephant and buffalo during the dry season and a birder's paradise year
round. The Kasane/Chobe area is unfortunately prone to overcrowding
during regional school holidays.
Nogatsaa and Tchinga
The pan
speckled grass woodland approximately 3 hours drive south of Serondela
is a hardly known area that holds water well into the dry season and
attracts a profusion of game between August and October. This area is
particularly good for viewing eland.
The Linyanti
The
north-western corner of Chobe meets the Linyanti River affording a very
short stretch of river frontage. This is a fragment of almost 900 square
kilometres of the secluded Linyanti Swamp - an area that is further
expanded by the Selinda Reserve in the west and Namibia's remote Mamili
National Park on the northern bank of the Kwando River. The area's
relative inaccessibility and remoteness makes it one of our favoured
safari destinations.
Savuti
This
famous western corner of Chobe is one of Botswana's best-known wildlife
areas. Savuti covers almost 5000 square kilometres and includes the
so-called Savuti Marsh and Channel, the Mababe Depression and Magwikhwe
Sand Ridge - each feature fashioned by the tectonic instability of the
region. The lions and hyeanas and zebra migrations are synonymous with
Savuti but the area also hosts an excellent diversity of other predators
and plains game species. Its pans and waterholes in the dry season
sustain a large population of bull elephants.
