Chobe National Park 2005 Photo Gallery by Brian McMorrow at pbase.com

Chobe National Park 2005

Chobe National Park, in northeastern Botswana, has the world's largest population of African elephants with between 35,000 and 55,000, depending on the seasonal movements. The Chobe River, which is shared with Namibia, offers excellent wildlife viewing opportunities by boat.

We stayed at the Chobe Safari Lodge in Kasane, Botswana	Chobe National Park boundary fence	Baobab, Chobe	One of the hotel safari vehicles
Chobe Welcomes You!	Welcome to Chobe National Park	Warthog	Giraffe
Marabou storks with hippos and elephant along the Chobe river front	Impala	On our afternoon game drive we saw hundreds of elephants	Elephant
Sandy track along the Chobe River	A male Puku, a rare species in Botswana, it is common in Zambia	Elephant	Elephant and puku
Great Egret	Elephants on the Chobe River	Elephants on the Chobe River	Young elephant emerging from the bush
Chobe National Park	Elephant, Chobe NP	Elephant, Chobe NP	Elephants at the Chobe River
Elephants at the Chobe River	Elephants don't hesitate to shit in the river	Elephants, Chobe National Park	This elephant wasn't too pleased with us
Chobe National Park	Elephant sniffing us	Close-up elephant, Chobe National Park	Excited elephant
Guide called this the 3rd leg	Bull elephant	Elephant crossing the track to the Chobe River	Bull elephant, Chobe National Park
Skull of an elephant that died last year	Elephants in the Chobe River	Kudu buck leaving the riverfront	Puku with elephants in the distance
Giraffe at Chobe	Giraffe drinking from the Chobe River	Giraffes, Chobe National Park	Giraffes, Chobe National Park
Elephant browsing away from the river	Elephant	Herd of Greater Kudu does and young	Greater Kudus, Chobe National Park
Female Greater Kudu	We were lucky and found a herd rare of Sable Antelope	Sable Antelope, Chobe National Park	Sable Antelope, Chobe National Park
Sable Antelope, Chobe National Park	Sable Antelope, Chobe National Park	Sable	Elephant having a mud bath
Immature Martial Eagle	Impala with a Namibian lodge across the Chobe River	Be sure to ask your driver to take you back to the river for sunset	We were very lucky with this herd of girafee
Of all our sundowners in Africa, this was the best	Giraffe sunset at Chobe National Park, Botswana	Giraffe at sunset, Chobe	Giraffe at sunset, Chobe
Giraffe at sunset, Chobe	Giraffe at sunset, Chobe	Giraffe at sunset, Chobe	Giraffe at sunset, Chobe
Giraffe at sunset, Chobe	Giraffe at sunset, Chobe	Giraffe at sunset, Chobe	A bird crosses the sun disk, Chobe
Giraffe at sunset, Chobe	Giraffe at sunset, Chobe	Giraffe at sunset, Chobe	Dead acacia trees at Chobe, a sign of elephant damage
Chobe Transit Road from Ngoma to Kasane	Fresh lion prints across yesterday's tire tracks	Chobe National Park at dawn	Chobe at dawn
Sunrise at Chobe	Helmeted Guinea Fowl - or Pearl Chicken (Perlhahn)	Egyptian goose, Chobe	African Open Bill Stork
Grey heron and a ball of elephant poo	Eckhart at the designated break area, Chobe	Me at Chobe	Our safari vehicle
Water flower at Chobe	Morning along the Chobe River	Red-billed Hornbill	Redbilled Hornbill
Deadly Black Mamba sunning itself on the road, Chobe	Hippos on the banks of the Chobe River	Looking across the Chobe River to the Caprivi Strip, Namibia	Impala, Chobe National Park
Impala, Chobe National Park	Warthog	Swainson's francolin, Chobe	Banded Mongoose
Southern Ground Hornbill	Building near the Chobe Safari Lodge being refurbished	Riverfront at the Chobe Safari Lodge, Kasane, Botswana	Riverfront at the Chobe Safari Lodge, Kasane, Botswana
Monkey at the Chobe Safari Lodge	Beware of Crocodiles wandering near the Chobe Safari Lodge	Chobe River by the Chobe Safari Lodge	African Fish Eagle in flight
The Botswana Defence Force has a significant presence at Chobe	Darter (Snake Bird)	Darter (Snake Bird)	The Darter gets it's name "Snake Bird" from it's appearance while swimming
Reed Cormorant, Chobe, Botswana	Hippos in the Chobe River	Hippo	Hippos and Cattle Egret
Hippos and Cattle Egret	Cattle Egret on the back of a hippo	They don't look dangerous, but they are	Hippos in the Chobe River
The hippo finally takes notice of us	The yawn is a warning	Hippos, Chobe National Park	Hippos, Chobe National Park
White-fronted bee-eater, Chobe	White-fronted bee-eater, Chobe	African Fish Eagle, the national bird of Zambia	Nile Monitor, a large lizard patrolling the banks of the Chobe River
Nile monitor lizard	Nile crocodile on the banks of the Chobe	Nile Crocodile	African Fish Eagle
A pair of African Fish Eagles, Chobe	African Buffalo, one of the Big 5, along the Chobe River	Colony of white-fronted bee-eaters	White-fronted bee-eater
White-fronted bee-eater	A pair of Nile crocodiles fighting	Nile crocodile	Great Egret, Chobe, Botswana
African Fish Eagle on a post, Chobe National Park	African Fish Eagle on a post	African Fish Eagle taking off	Elephant climbing out of the river
Elephant	Elephant on an island in the Chobe River	Botswana military boat with western VIPs	Egyptian geese
Egyptian geese	Elephants in the Chobe River	Elephants in the Chobe River	Elephants in the Chobe River
The guide said they're just practicing	Elephants	The tip of the trunk of a submerged elephant	Elephant
Elephants	Elephant	Elephant	More practice
Elephants in the Chobe River	A result of constant practice	Elephant close up	Elephant, Chobe National Park
Pied Kingfisher, Chobe	Sacred Ibis and Blacksmith Plover	Sacred Ibis	Squacco Heron (Chobe, Botswana)
A huge Nile Crocodile	A huge Nile Crocodile	A huge Nile Crocodile	A huge Nile Crocodile
Elephants and hippos	Inge and the naturalist guide, Chobe	Eckhart, Inge and Ralph on the Chobe River cruise	Inge, Ralph and Eckhart on the Chobe River cruise
A tourboat on the Chobe River	Sunset over the Caprivi	Sunset across the Chobe River to Namibia	Sunset over the Caprivi
Zambezi Queen, now part of King's Den Lodge, Namibia	Sunset	Sunset	Chobe River sunset
Chobe River sunset	Wake patterns at sunset, Chobe	Wake patterns at sunset, Chobe	Wake patterns at sunset
Back at the Chobe Safari Lodge, Kasane	Chobe Safari Lodge	Bar at the campsite of the Chobe Safari Lodge	View from the bar of the Chobe Safari Lodge
Botswana Department of Tourism, Kasane	Botswana Post, Kasane	Kasane Hospital	Reinhold collecting DHL photos in Kasane
Eckhart at the Chobe Safari Lodge

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stan		27-Jun-2012 13:40
Thank you Brian for the tour. I learned a lot.

Guest		22-Dec-2007 13:14
Thnaks for posting these. I really enjoyed the giraffe silhouette, it is very difficult to for anywhere to compete with those Chobe sunsets. I have just spent a number of months in Southern Africa, with time in Botswana, feel free to flick through How I long to have my job back in the Okavango

Brian McMorrow		04-Apr-2007 17:49
No, we weren't there long enough...but I'll surely go back.

Tony Greyvenstein		04-Apr-2007 17:22
I worked in Kasane for 2 years...awesome pics....brings back great memories...did you meet any of the local people..

Ashley Hockenberry		21-Dec-2005 15:48
Stupendous gallery of awesome shots and quality photography!!!!! Well done!!

Graham Tomlin		29-Aug-2005 09:35
very nice gallery

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