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Chobe National Park is a wildlife enthusiasts paradise. The entire park covers an area of nearly 11 000 sq km with habitats ranging from swamp and flood plain to forest.
The Chobe revine area has a profusion of wildlife especially in the dry summer months (March to November) when the herds migrate to the river. Chobe has one of the largest elephant population in Africa estimated at 37 000 (more than 5 times the elephant population of the whole of South Africa).
On the flood plains you will see the red Lechwe, and puka antelope and herd upon herd of buffalo. In the riverine thickets one often spots leopard and the rare Chobe bush buck. Perhaps the best method of describing the diversity of game one can encounter is to give you the check list of animals I observed in three days spent at Chobe Game Lodge and Chobe Chilwero.
Sable, Chobe Bushbuck, Impala, Kudu, Puka, Red Lechwe, Waterbuck, Lion, Mongoose, Buffalo. 1000 in one game drive elephant, giraffe, hippo, white rhino, bush squirrel, warthog, baboon, leguaan (Cheetah was sighted as well but as usual I was in the other Landrover) and the birds Reed cormorant, Burchells, Coucal, Darter, Water Dikkop, Fulvous, knobbilled and white faced duck, Fish Eagles, Little Egret, Jamesons Firefish, Crested and red billed Fancolin, Egyptian Geese, Purple Heron, Hoopoe, Ground Lornbill, Sacred Ibis, Plovers, Malachite kingfishers, Shrikes, Marabou storks, Weavers, Cape wahtail. In fact over 200 species of birds have been recorded in Chobe. |
