We take a day tour to visit the Chobe National Park in neighboring Botswana. The border is 50km west of Victoria Falls. Simple border crossing and entry into another world, a world without scarcity and healthy economic (but not physical, AIDS is wreaking havoc here).
Our base will be a luxury lodge in Kasane, on the banks of the Chobe River. This river marks the northern border with the Caprivi Strip, long (450 km) strip of land sandwiched between Namibian Botswana, Angola and Zambia.
We are three tourists on the bus, the arrival of a full Japanese portends for a safari-saturated noise triggers cameras and exclamations typically Nippon (oooooohh!) To the sight of each wild animal.
But no, the group left for a safari land as we embark on three more the guide on a small boat for an aquatic version. The boat is very maneuverable and the guide is very familiar with his work. The advantage the version on the water is that the river is the choke point of the animals to drink, and as the park is rich in wildlife, the banks are crowded. Another advantage, the boat can approach much closer to the animals that drink or take their mud bath (for pachyderms).
Three hours of sailing to observe animals and some adrenaline , a hippopotamus who pretended to load because we are too close to an elephant in an offensive posture. Fortunately, our guide is about control ... until he tells us that the Rhinos are poached for their ivory horns!
Meals at the lodge, amid the Japanese back from their safari tour but then re-ground this time. After the boat ride, the truck version is much less exciting especially since we are in the early afternoon, the siesta time for mammals. The guide, a little distracted, is less interesting, worse, it lacks hit an elephant by doing a reverse. The prospect of being crushed by an elephant annoyed we do not really enchants. Two giraffes will make us forget those little annoyances: it can only remain fascinated with such elegance.
Back in Zimbabwe on a bus ferrying passengers carrying some other food, rooms are going to shop on the other side of the border.
This will be the day's most expensive trip but it was worth the candle.
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