Chobe River Front refers to the National Park along the Chobe River being the border between Botswana and Zambia. The road basically follows the river where we saw loads of elephants and buffaloes, as well as lechwes, zebras and wildebeest and numerous birds. The light was not ideal when we passed by so I took only a few pictures.

Reed cormorant

Yellow-bellied greenbul

I was somewhat disappointed by Chobe River Front. I was expecting something with more marshes and wetlands but it's just along the river. Don't get me wrong, it's still a fine park, but something is missing...

Just to remember how beautiful they are....

Within the park, there is only one permanent waterhole (artificial) so all the wildlife is concentrated there. We saw only bull elephants though as all the family herds were gone to the Boteti. We also managed to catch a glimpse of a male lion as the night was falling. We spent a night at the KSL South camp which is all right but not great.

Nxai pan artificial waterhole 

 Skittish birds

5 big boys 

 Natural frame

Playful wildebeests

Burchell's sandgrouses

Secretary bird

From the  Makgadikgadi we went straight into Nxai Pan NP. Now the road to get to the actual pan was once again a nightmare, most probably the worst we had over the whole trip...

It was overcast the whole day, so the pictures are not great but they should give you an idea of what you can expect to find out there.

We first stopped at Baines Baobads for breakfast.

Dry salt pan along the way

Here are the Google Earth maps of the trip in Namibia and Botswana 2014, just for info.

Each trip is detailed in its own section.