Monday was spent driving from our first campsite to the next one. We spent Monday night and Tuesday night in the mababe side of the Chobe National Park. Now Chobe has the largest population of elephants in the world! And it showed. After driving for an hour on this dirt road we began to see elephants everywhere! I took so many pictures of Elephants. The campsite we slept at was in the bush. When I say in the bush, I mean in the bush. We were at least 4 hours away from the park entrance, and there was no sign of civilization anywhere. Once we got to the park on Monday we unpacked and then went on an afternoon game drive where we saw a lot of animals. That day also set the pace for the week. I would go to bed around 9 pm then wake up around 5 am. Get some breakfast, get into the car, go on a game drive, get lunch, another game drive, then come back for dinner and down time.
The food that we had on this trip was amazing. I find it so funny that the food we ate in the middle of the african bush was better than any meal I could get in one of the dining halls on campus.
So this was the first elephant I saw. A lot of the elephants were really close to us. None of them seemed angry at our presence and most of the time just kind of ignored us.
Another elephant picture.
The sunsets I saw were beautiful. I've never seen any as beautiful as the ones over here. I took so many pictures of them, but the pictures can't even come close to actual thing.
I was so excited to see a hippo. I never did get a very good view of a hippo out of water, but I was just excited to see them.
Impala...everywhere. Pretty much wherever you turned you could see impala.
I really didn't see that many zebras but I did a bunch of really good pictures. I decided that Zebras are my favorite African animal.
It was so cool to see Giraffes. We saw a few giraffe babies as well which were really cute. I found out that a group of giraffes is called a tower. I find that really funny. We also saw baby elephants, baby warthogs, baby buffalo, and baby hippos. All of them were really adorable.
The park doesn't allow people to drive past 7 pm. But just as we were heading towards our campsite we came across two lions! One of them was hiding in the bush preparing to hunt some of the impala. We never did see it kill any though. The other one was just chilling in the grass. Later that night we heard lions on the edge of campsite. They were really close and a few people from our group were really nervous about them coming. However, they never did grace us with their presence, but I am certain they passed right next to our site.
On Thursday we went on a river tour of the Chobe River. It was as if we were in a painting. On the edge of the river you could see baboons, buffalo, elephants, giraffes, antelope and a lot more coming to get a drink of water. It was very surreal.
The buffalo. One of the big 5. The big 5 consists of buffalo, elephants, rhino, lions, and leopards. If I remember correctly the big 5 are called this because way back in the day hunters found them the hardest to kill. I unfortunately have only seen 3 out of the big 5. I hope one day to see all of them.
Another picture of a sunset. If you haven't figured it out yet, I really like taking pictures of the sunsets.
And lastly a picture of a warthog.
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