Another of Botswana's spectacular game parks is the Chobe Park on the banks of the Chobe River. Here the vegetation becomes trampled by the large herds of elephant that frequent the river's edge, especially in the drier months of September and October, when herds of 500 or more are often seen. The gentle Chobe bushbuck is the only member of the antelope family that drinks from the wide, gently flowing river with its flat sandy flood plains and numerous pods of hippo. Away from the river, the pans and mopane forests support large numbers of buffalo and lion.

West of Chobe, on the Botswana/Namibia border, lie the Linyanti Marshes. Relatively unknown and bordered by over 50 miles of the Kwando River, this is prime big game country. Huge Ebony and Marula trees, whose fruit is a favourite of elephants, shade the river and its resident hippo whilst, further south, fronting onto the Linyanti Woodlands, are open grasslands teeming with herds of animals and solitary predators.