Forming the boundary between Botswana and Namibia is the Chobe River - one of the most well-known perennial rivers in Africa. The Chobe River Front encompasses vast floodplains fringed by lush riverine woodlands. The abundant wildlife inhabiting the river and its shores can be viewed from a river safari where visitors can spot elephants, hippo, water-loving antelope including the rare red lechwe and a variety of other game such as giraffe, zebra, and buffalo. Nature lovers will delight in the incredibly scenic natural landscapes and bird watchers can look forward to the wide section of bird species which can be spotted along the river banks.
Across southeastern Angola, Luengue-Luiana National Park covers roughly 42,000 square kilometres near the borders of Namibia and Zambia, where the Cuando and Kavango river systems feed floodplains, marshes, and broad tracts of woodland. Open savanna shifts into mopane and miombo woodland, while papyrus-lined wetlands attract herons, storks, cranes, and African fish eagles circling low over shallow water. During the dry season, elephants, buffalo, sable antelope, zebra, and giraffe gather near remaining water channels, and tracks from lions or leopards cut through sandy ground beside sparse grassland. Travellers move through the park by four-wheel drive along rough bush routes, stopping near riverbanks for birdwatching and wildlife photography, while routes through baobab groves, dense thickets, and seasonally flooded plains pass hippos resting in reed-lined pools.
