Saturday was our day scheduled to go south to Chobe National Park in the neighboring country of Botswana. Chobe contains the confluence of two large rivers that produced a marshy island. In the dry season, it is a key large watering hole for many of the large animals in the area.
We arose early to drive south to Livingstone then farther southwest to the Zambia-Botswana border, crossed the Zambezi River by ferry (a 12 passenger motor boat) then boarded an open-air jeep on the other side and rode to a lodge at Chobe where we took a tour by boat and by jeep of the park to see the animals. It was truly impressive (impala, giraffe, kudu, waterbucks, water buffalo, hippos, crocodiles, baboons, wide variety of birds, and elephants – lots of elephants, perhaps 400 elephants).
We returned late in the afternoon, stopped in Livingstone to eat dinner and then on the Zimba to prepare for Sunday.
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