Kasane- Chobe National Park

After a wonderful three days in Maun, Anna and I packed up and posted at the local hitch hikers spot hoping to catch a ride to our next destination.  And we did! We caught a ride with this nice guy that got us to Nata, which is the half way point and then he was headed the opposite direction of us so he dropped us off and we were thumbs up again on the side of the road.  A really nice doctor from Francistown picked us up and took us the rest of the way to a place called Kasane which is a little town in Northern Botswana that is specifically known for the wildlife walking around town, and it did not disappoint- driving there we saw elephants cross the road, there were warthogs walking around town and giraffes off in the distance.  We got to our lodge that was super expensive unless you were camping and we realized that we had left our tent in the nice doctors car. DANG IT. But we found a taxi man who took us to a local chinese shop and of course, they had tents! Woot Woot we got one that was neon pink and blue- it was also a lot bigger than the one we had before so that was fortunate. But we got back to our lodge, set up camp and sort of hung out there for the night, there wasn't much to do since the lodge was 90% old rich white people buttt that was okay because at 5 am in the next morning we went on our last game drive.  We went to Chobe National Park which is one of the top game reserves in the world and based on the amount of animals we saw, I understand why!  Thanks to that safari I completed seeing all of my big five, saw some lions and some buffalo- which are scary, we saw insane numbers of hippos and elephants, saw some giraffes, impalas, kudu, warthogs, crocodiles, and fish eagles.  At one point we drove through a baboon invasion.. if aliens ever invaded earth, I imagine it would look a little bit like this did since baboons look like aliens and there were a million of them, ready to pounce if you looked at them wrong.  So that was neat.

That was sort of all we did in Chobe/Kasane because we only had a week and so many things to see, and safaris are really all there is to do there so we packed up after our early morning drive and got a taxi to the border of Zambia, hoped on the ferry to take us across country and to Livingstone, Zambia where our journey continued.