Willch Travel and Tours - Livingstone, Zambia

The Chobe Day Trip offers amazing views of the Chobe River and an abundance of wildlife, all packed in just one day. You will be taken on a 2 hour safari game drive along the shores and a boat cruise on the river itself, allowing you to get really up close to the animals from the water.

Chobe National Park is Botswana's first national park, and also the most biologically diverse. Located in the north of the country, it is Botswana's third largest park and has one of the greatest concentrations of game in all of Africa. This park is noted for having a huge population of elephants as well as lions, leopards, buffalos, impalas, giraffes, zebras, baboons etc.

Approximately 2- 3 hours long, the game drive is done in an open 4x4 safari vehicle with a certified safari guide. It offers a thrilling experience to have close encounters with 3 of the Big 5 animals namely elephant; buffalo and the near threatened white rhino with excellent photographic opportunities

The park also has a wide variety of antelope species like the ever alert impala, duiker, puku, sable-antelope and a lot more. Best time to go on a game drive is early morning before it warms up and late afternoon just when it starts to cool down. Morning pick up times start from 06:00am to 08:00am with afternoon pick ups from 2:00pm to 3:00pm. The drive is wrapped up in style on the scenic banks of the Zambezi river while viewing hippos or listening to their groans and loud wheezing sounds.

Get wet! Vast quantities of water pour down and a huge spray is coming back up forming clouds and rainbows over the falls. You can walk along parts of the fast flowing Zambezi and along the falls itself over the foot path and the Knife Bridge giving unparalleled views of the falls offering ever changing spectacles depending on time of day and the season. During full moon you can witness the lunar rainbow during special opening hours.

Victoria Falls presents the beauty and magnificence on the Zambezi River, forming the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. The actual name of the falls is Mosi-Oa-Tunya which means the smoke that thunders. When David Livingstone and his partner Sussi and Chuma first saw it David Livingstone named it Victoria Falls to honour his queen. The Victoria Falls is one of the seven natural wonders of the world.

The Victoria Falls is classified as one of the largest water falls with a width of 1,708 metres (5,604 ft.) and height of 108 metres (354 ft.), resulting in the world's largest sheet of falling water.

On the upstream of the Falls there are two large islands that are large enough to divide the curtain of water even at full flood, Cataract Island near the western bank and Livingstone Island near the middle point from which Livingstone first viewed the Falls.