Chobe National Park is in northern Botswana near the vast, inland Okavango Delta.
It’s known for its large herds of elephants and Cape buffalo, which converge along the Chobe Riverfront in the dry months.
Lions, antelopes and hippos inhabit the woods and lagoons around Linyanti Marsh.
The floodable grasslands of the Savuti Marsh attract numerous bird species, plus migrating zebras.
The Chobe Riverfront (or Serondela area) forms the northern boundary of the Chobe National Park. It has lush plains and dense forests as well as the renowned Chobe River which attracts huge numbers of elephants, buffalo and general wildlife.
Habitats found in the Park range from floodplains, mopane woodland, baobab trees and acacia woodlands, to verdant flood grasslands and thickets bordering the Chobe River.
The most remarkable feature of the Chobe National Park is its huge concentration of Elephants. This Park supports the largest surviving Elephant populations in the world, currently estimated to exceed 120,000. This population is dispersed throughout much of northern Botswana, as well as parts of north-western Zimbabwe. The Chobe Elephants are migratory, making seasonal movements of up to 200 kilometres in a circuit from the Chobe and Linyanti rivers, where they concentrate in the dry season, to the pans in the south-eastern region of the park, where they gather during the rainy season.
Chobe National Park is home to huge herds of Elephant, Buffalo, and Zebra. There are high densities of predators such as Lion, Leopard, Spotted Hyena and Cheetah. The park also hosts more unusual antelope species such as Roan and Sable, Puku, Tsessebe, Eland, Red Lechwe, Waterbuck, and the rare Chobe Bushbuck. The better-known species such as Giraffe, Kudu, Warthog, Wildebeest and Impala also abound in the park.
SAFARI HIGHLIGHTS
- Chobe National Park is in northern Botswana near the vast, inland Okavango Delta.
- It’s known for its large herds of elephants and Cape buffalo, which converge along the Chobe Riverfront in the dry months.
- Lions, antelopes and hippos inhabit the woods and lagoons around Linyanti Marsh.
- The floodable grasslands of the Savuti Marsh attract numerous bird species, plus migrating zebras.
