The Chobe River

The Chobe River starts out in Angolan highlands where it is known as the Kwando River. It flows southeasterly until it enters Botswana where not only does its name change to the Linyathi but its course digresses by 90 degrees. This is due to fault lines in the earth's crust, which extend from the Great Rift Valley in East Africa and affects the Okavango and Zambezi in a likewise manner.

At the Ngoma Gate, the Linyathi becomes the Chobe River, which meanders through swamps of wide reed and papyrus beds, and forms concealed lagoons. The earth movements that changed its flow also caused a backing up of the river for a considerable distance, which created the swamps and gives the impression that the river sometimes flows backwards.

The Chobe River area is abundant with elephants, which offer magnificent viewing as they play, clean and feed near the river. There are also numerous other game to be found in the area including buffalo, waterbuck, giraffe and elands amongst others.