PULA - BOTSWANA

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PASSPORT – you must make sure that your passport is valid for at least 6-months after your intended return date back home E.G. if your intended return date home is September 01, 2010, your passport must be valid up until and including March 01, 2011

VISITOR’S VISA – you will require a visitor’s visa to enter the country. It is not necessary to apply for your visitor’s visa ahead of your arrival. It will be issued on arrival at your point of entry into the country. Please make sure that you have two consecutive blank pages in your passport for local Immigration to issue your visitor’s visa. We provide you with a PDF downloadable visitor’s visa application form with your final travel documentation to complete ahead of arrival. You will not require passport photographs when obtaining your visitor’s visa upon arrival. To be financially prepared, be aware that the only form of payment accepted for your visitor’s visa will be US Dollar cash. No local currency, Travelers Checks, credit cards or any other forms of payment will be accepted under any circumstances (the cost of your visitor’s visa is not included in this safari price)

TRAVEL MEDICATIONS / INOCULATIONS – you are required to produce a Yellow Fever inoculation certificate upon arrival and prevention against Malaria is recommended! For all other matters, please consult the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

ELEVATE YOUR COMFORT – review A Safe Trip Abroad presented by the U.S. Department of State - Bureau of Consular Affairs

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Chobe National Park, which is the second largest national park in Botswana and covers 4,100 square miles, has one of the greatest concentrations of game found on the African continent. Its uniqueness in the abundance of wildlife and the true African nature of the region, offers a safari experience of a lifetime

The park is divided into four distinctly different eco systems: Serondela with its lush plains and dense forests in the Chobe River area in the extreme north-east; the Savuti Marsh and the Linyanti Swamps in the north-west and the hot dry hinterland in between

The original inhabitants of what is now Chobe National Park were the San people, otherwise known in Botswana as the Basarwa. They were hunter-gatherers who lived by moving from one area to another in search of water, wild fruits, and wild animals

A major feature of Chobe National Park is its elephant population. First, the Chobe elephant comprise part of what is probably the largest surviving continuous elephant population. This population covers most of northern Botswana plus northwestern Zimbabwe. The Botswana's elephant population is estimated at around 120,000

Recently refurbished, Chobe Safari Lodge’s individually decorated guest rooms offer every comfort including the luxury of air-conditioning, luxurious en-suite bath and shower facilities and satellite TV. The luxurious lodge is located on the banks of the Chobe River providing guests with extensive overland game viewing or waterborne game viewing opportunities

Described by the Kololo tribe living in the area in the 1800’s as 'Mosi-oa-Tunya' - 'the Smoke that Thunders' and in more modern times as 'the greatest known curtain of falling water', the Victoria Falls are a spectacular sight of awe-inspiring beauty and grandeur on the Zambezi River, bordering Zambia and Zimbabwe

Columns of spray can be seen from miles away as the mighty Zambezi plummets over the edge (at the height of the flood season) over a width of nearly one and a quarter miles into a deep gorge over 330 feet below. The wide basalt cliff, over which the falls thunder, transforms the Zambezi from a wide placid river to a ferocious torrent cutting through a series of dramatic gorges

Facing the Falls is another sheer wall of basalt, rising to the same height and capped by mist-soaked rain forest. A path along the edge of the forest provides any visitor who is prepared to brave the tremendous spray with an unparalleled series of views of the Falls. One special vantage point is across the 'Knife Edge Bridge', where you will have the finest view of the Eastern Cataract and the Main Falls as well as the Boiling Pot where the river turns and heads down the Batoka Gorge. Other vantage points include the Falls Bridge and the Lookout Tree, which commands a panoramic view across the Main Falls

"The first impression was unmistakable; immense power, the raw energy unleashed when the entire Zambezi leaps wildly into a black two kilometer wide abyss. The scale is massive, the spectacle spellbinding and perpetually changing. The falls hiss and roar as if possessed, they rumble and crash like thunder. Vast clouds spew and billow out from the seething cauldron of its dark impenetrable depths. The moving water creates a magnetism that sucks you closer, so that you recoil in horror to quench a subliminal sacrificial urge." (Jumbo Williams, Zambezi, River of Africa. 1988)

Different times of the year will provide completely different experiences of the falls region. Peak flood season is around March and April and the full power of the Falls can be experienced in all its glory. However, due to the masses of spray rising from the fallen water the full width of the Falls cannot be seen on foot. The aerial view at this time however is spectacular, with clouds of spray rising high into the sky

As the floods abate, the view of the Falls gets better and better through the year, but at its lowest, around October, November and December the Falls become little rivulets running over the edge and in some places no water falls at all. This season’s gift is the view of the impressive cliffs that form the Falls wall and the magnitude of the abyss can be fully appreciated

To appropriately set your expectations ahead of your arrival, the photos on the left were taken in April and those on the right, at the end of October

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