Announcing Grassrack Safaris Newest Trip: A Fully Serviced Camping Safari to the game parks of Moremi and Chobe.

GrassTrack's is proud to announce our newest safari, a fully serviced expedition that offers the best in African camping and wildlife viewing. This safari is perfect for those wishing to visit the best wilderness areas in Botswana in very comfortable mobile camping safari style. This Botswanan expedition, starting in Maun and ending in Kasane, includes 2 nights in the Moremi Game Reserve, 2 nights at the Savuti Swamp in Chobe National Park, a river cruise on the Chobe River, and a Mokoro excursion on the Khwai River, originating from the Okavango Delta and which forms part of the northern border of the Moremi Game Reserve.

After a long day of game drives in the Botswana bush, back at camp,
your meals will be prepared and waiting for you

The camping accommodations on this safari include spacious bow tents with camp beds, full bedding and includes luxurious camp showers and latrine facilities. This safari is a non participation safari, where camp chores are taken care of for you so you can spend your time in camp relaxing, sipping cocktails or freshening up. The large dome style tents are 10ft x 10ft in size, large enough to stand in and each tent has an en suite bush toilet and shower. The maximum number of guests per vehicle is 8 ensuring that everyone gets a window seat and your soft drinks, mineral water and alcohol are included.

Your tent, including your own private shower and toilet

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Your spacious tent showing your sleeping accommodations

 

On this trip you will have the chance to observe

• Lion
• Leopard
• Cheetah
• African wild dog
• Elephants, lots of them
• Hippo
• Zebra
• Impala
• Giraffe
• Warthog
• Hyena
• Buffalo
• Kudu
• Hippos
• Wildebeest
• Crocodile
• Chobe bushbuck
• many other animals and to many birds to list
  
  
  
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  On our Fully Serviced Safari you will have the opportunity to take a relaxing Mokoro excursion on the Khwai River that originates from the Okavango Delta.

  
  
  
  
  
  

A Night Time Encounter with an Elephant

Traveling in Africa is a life changing experience. The exotic animals encountered, their shear numbers and wild antics and behaviors make every observation unique and exciting. But every now and again something really really incredible happens and if you're lucky enough that something just might happen when you're on safari. I have had a few such encounters on my trips to Africa and one of the most memorable happened during my last trip.

Traveling the wilds of Africa in daylight truly is amazing, but traveling at night takes one into a whole new realm of enchantment. Undertaking game drives at night is not a regular experience of most safari travelers. Predators are out and appropriate precautions are necessary, permits must be acquired and special expertise is needed. I have experienced only one night time game drive in Africa and that was way back in 2001. I've always wanted to do another night drive, but have never had the opportunity. Recently, while out on a day drive in Chobe National Park during a GrassTrack safari, we were experiencing animal sighting after animal sighting and lost track of time. Suddenly we were engulfed in darkness, miles away from camp and as we made our hurried way back we encountered a large elephant in the road, directly in front of us. Our guide killed our vehicle's engine and headlights and all of us wondered what in the H-E double L he was doing as we coasted to a stop within inches of the massive animal.

In the darkness of the African bush what's out their can see you, but you can't always see it

In the darkness, it was obvious that the elephant was confused. It reached its trunk out to us, swaying back and forth, appearing to access the situation for any signs of danger. Slowly she made her way around the front of our vehicle and as I peered through darkness to see the ghostly beast move past, I imagined I was experiencing something much like a boat passenger might feel as two massive ships pass at night on the open sea. It really was remarkable. We all strained to see the elephant as it moved along side us only inches away, while with every slow and methodical step, the elephant cautiously reassessed the situation before her. Within minutes the experience was over, she was gone, disappeared into the darkness, but in our emotional exhaustion everyone in the vehicle knew we had experienced something very special, something we would remember for the rest of our lives. It is surprising how such a simple encounter can hold so much meaning.

Isn't it time that you treated yourself to a GrassTrack's safari! Check out our website and book a trip today!

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The bush silhouetted against the African night.

Chobe National Park - Day 2 More of the " Chobe Riverfront"

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Our last African safari started in Maun, Botswana, traveled to the Moremi Game Reserve, the Savuti Marsh in Chobe National Park, and then to what is known as the Chobe Riverfront before finishing at Victoria Falls in Zambia, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. In this blog we have been reporting on this fabulous trip and today we recount our experience visiting the Chobe Riverfront.

After having spent one marvelous day in Chobe National Park, the fifth of our safari, our sixth day was spent in additional explorations along the magnificent Chobe Riverfront. The Riverfront lies along approximately 10 miles of the Chobe River near the town of Kasane in extreme northeastern Botswana, only 55 miles west of Victoria Falls. On the two maps below you can see the locations of Maun, Moremi, Chobe National Park within Botswana, and the location of the Riverfront within the Park.

The Riverfront is known for the large number of wildlife that migrate to the area during the dry season. In very dry years it is the only place where wildlife can find water to sustain themselves until the rejuvenating rains come again. The highlands of Angola receive copious amounts of rainfall during the rainy season and these rains are carried out of the mountains by the Cuando River, which becomes the Kwando, Linyanti, and finally the Chobe River before meeting the Zambezi river outside of Kasane at the Botswana-Zambia border. It is the last stretch of this great river, when it becomes the Chobe, where great herds of wildlife congregate.

A family of elephants make  way across the Chobe River along the Riverfront

Large herds of wildlife occur everywhere along the waterfront. Elephant and buffalo, especially, form into huge herds for which the park is famous. The number of elephant at the Chobe Riverfront is just mindboggling and there must have been 200 to 300 elephants on the Riverfront this day. Along with the huge herds of elephant, buffalo, and giraffe you can also expect to see tsessebe, waterbuck, roan, eland, sable, and giraffe (all of which we saw) and, if you are lucky, the rare puku, which we did see for a fleeting moment, but were unable to capture on film. The Puku is a rare antelope found in floodplain grasslands near water in south-central Africa.
  

Cape buffalo chew the cud along the Chobe Riverfront

Sable drink from a water hole along the Chobe River. These shy antelope are rarely ever seen.

The floodplain along the Riverfront makes an ideal viewing area with mixed patches of open grassland, thickets of bush, and riverine forest. In the river itself you will see hippo and crocodile and from the Namibian side of the river you may even see fishermen casting their nets into the Chobe while trying to avoid the resident crocodiles.

A hippo opens its mouth wide

Namibians fish the Chobe River.

Because of its abundant wildlife, the Riverfront is the Park's greatest attraction drawing thousands of visitors every year. This amazing place is one of the top ecotravel destinations in the world and because of the number of giraffe, zebra and antelope residing in the area lion, leopard, and chetah are a regular sight. The birdlife is also exceptional, from the larger species such as kori bustards, secretary birds and maribou storks, through to the brilliantly colored lilac-breasted rollers.  Fish eagles swoop overhead, dive bombing into the river to catch their daily diet of fish. Botswana and the Chobe Riverfront are a must see destination for every traveler so don't hesitate any longer, go to GrassTrack Safaris today and book your adventure safari to visit this magnificent place!

A crocodile suns itself along the banks of the Chobe River

A vulture peers over the Riverfront

A kori bustard on the floodplain

Storks at a pond on the Chobe Riverfront

I hope you enjoyed the article and don't forget to visit our website and book a trip to Africa to view this magnificent place

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Sunset in the Chobe bush