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Nicole's
Travelogues and Budget Travel Tips..
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CHOBE RIVER CRUISE, BOTSWANA
I hadn't originally planned to go to Botswana, but the Victoria Falls Backpackers hostel offered a day trip there, so I paid $85 and went. It took us about an hour to drive to Kasane, Botswana. Kasane is a small village - from which you can easily go to four countries: Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Namibia.
Kasane lies on the banks of the Chobe River it's the location of Chobe National Park’s northern gate. As there are no boundary fences between the park and the village, elephant are frequently seen wandering down the main street and crocs climb out of the river and bask on the lawns of the Kasane campsites.
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Kazungula, 6km to the east of Kasane, is the border post between Botswana and Zimbabwe, and the Victoria Falls are only 80km away. The nearby Kazungula ferry crosses the Zambezi River between Botswana and Zambia. The border with Namibia is 50km away on the other side of the northern tip of Chobe National Park.
In Kasane, we met our guide and boarded a small covered motorboat for our morning river cruise. The cruise lasted about three hours. During the cruise we saw birds, Crocodiles, Hippos, a herd of a hundred Buffalos, Baboons, Vervet Monkeys, Impala, and elephants. The African Fish Eagles were impressive (similar in appearance to the American Bold Eagle) eating their catches on the shore.
