An intense day trip to northern Botswana from Victoria Falls, visiting Chobe Park looking for its elephant herds and numerous predators.

Famous for its elephant population, Chobe National Park, established in 1968, is one of Africa’s best safari destinations. In addition to pachyderms (of which there are about 120,000 and growing), the park is rich in predators and more than 440 species of birds. Four areas can be visited: the Serondela area in the north-eastern end, characterised by plains and teak forests and bordered by the Chobe River, rich in elephants and buffaloes; the Savuti pond area, with large areas of savannah and grassland, where predators (lions, cheetahs, hyenas, etc.) are concentrated due to the high presence of herbivores such as impala, zebras and warthogs; and the Linyanti pond, on the border with Mamili Park in Namibia, characterised by lagoons and plains. The Linyanti pond, on the border with Namibia’s Mamili Park, is characterised by lagoons and floodplains, rich in hippos, crocodiles, avifauna and the rare sitatunga antelopes. The hinterland between Linyanti and Savuti is an area of wooded plains where alkine antelopes (eland) abound.