Botswana: Chobe National Park Map

The most remarkable feature of the Chobe National Park is its huge concentration of elephants. But it's not just the elephants that make this special park worth visiting, also its great natural beauty.

The park has an amazing variety of habitats, which range from floodplains, through woodlands of baobab, mopane and acacia trees, to verdant grasslands and thickets bordering the Chobe River. Flowing along the park's northern boundaries are the Linyanti Reserve and Chobe River, while in the south the Savuti Channel brings life to the Mababe Depression.

Elephants notwithstanding, the Chobe National Park has an amazing variety of game and many brilliantly coloured birds. The Savuti Channel, a strange waterway that seems to have a mind of its own, bisects the park. The channel was dry for one hundred years, then flooded abruptly in the 1950s and remained flooded till the 1980s, when shiftings of the subterranean tectonic plates caused it to dry up again.