First thing in morning we did a game drive together with about 8 or 10 other guests from the lodge. It is nothing like walking through the bush with Poifu in the Okavango Delta, but we did get to see a lot of animals - even lions and almost a leopard. 'Almost' means we got directions by another driver who just had spotted a leopard nearby, but when we got to the place only the leopards kill, a Zebra, was left.

There were to many cars or rather trucks in Chobe. It made us feel more like in a Zoo than in a National Park, but that's just the way it is, I guess. A high concentration of interesting animals often goes with a high concentration of people ... or alternatively it is really expensive (like the Okavango Delta or Savuti for instance) which keeps out the 'budget' travellers.

We saw lot's and lot's of elephants, hippos, some puku (of which there is said to be only about 600 left in the world), water buffalos, crocodiles, lions, eagles, vultures, and other game and birds.

The three hour game drive before breakfast was the perfect preparation for one of the biggest and best buffets I have seen in a long time. There was just about everything you could wish for.

In the afternoon we did the acclaimed 'world famous river cruise'. It was nice, but 'world famous' is probably a bit exaggerated. We went to visit pretty much the same spots as we had done with the safari in the morning - just from the water side this time. On display we had again water buffalos, hippos, monkeys, all kinds of birds, crocodiles and people with exorbitant huge lenses. Best thing that afternoon was seeing elephants crossing the river Chobe. The only thing that was sticking out of the water was the end of their trunk. I had no idea they really did that - always though that was just a hoax. It looked really funny.

In the evening we had dinner with Viola and Rüdiger, a German couple from Stuttgart.