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.
