Chobe NP, Botswana


We’ve arrived at Baobab (BOW-bob) Camp in Botswana as of Monday afternoon, so it’s our fourth country and another whole new world. Amazingly, we have some limited service here, so I hope to catch up with some of my other pages. 

We flew back to Livingstone from Kafue this morning, then took about three hours to drive here, including going thru customs at the border.  Interestingly, that border crossing area is similar to the Four Corners area in the southwest. Only here, it’s four countries that all meet at the same spot: Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Namibia. Although we are not scheduled to cross into Namibia, we can easily see it from our campsite, which is right on the border.

My front porch overlooks the plains and Namibia.

Our Welcome to Baobab Camp

You get the idea. 
  
MONDAY EVENING

Pumba and Family

Game Drive Mix

Elephant Parade

Can I have a ride, Mom?

Another pool for an afternoon break

Cabin Number 7, new home

Sleeping area

Oxpeckers helping with giraffe tick grooming
 

So our typical day goes something like this:

5:30 AM  Wakey, wakey

6:00 Coffee and Continental breakfast

6:30  Morning game drive

11ish Brunch

12:15 Free time

3:30 Daily informative talk 

4:30 Afternoon game drive with sundowners

7:00 Dinner

8:45ish Goodnight

TUESDAY MORNING GAME DRIVE

Young Male Elephant


Hyena

Black-Backed Jackal

Greater Kudu

African Stork

Hyenas
Jackal
 
Greater Kudu Female

Beautiful Relaxed Leopard

After lunch today, several of us took advantage of the close border crossing into Namibia. One of our guides, Tsono, drove us across the border in his Jeep Safari vehicle. So we had to go through passport control four times:
Out of Botswana
Into Namibia
Out of Botswana
Into Namibia

Took about an hour, but it added one more to my list of countries I've visited. 
(OK, maybe with an asterisk.)

Evening game drive





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