Chobe National park in northern Botswana is probably best known for its number of elephants and large herds. Viewing these large animals calmly feeding on the river banks, as we slowly passed them on a river boat was fantastic.
We also went out on three drives in the park and thereby managed to see four of the big five, but who's counting, right ;-)
Even though I was glad that the guests got to experience the big game on this trip, I think the most photographed creature of our Chobe experience was probably of the smaller variety... at the lodge! Around lunch time one of the days, there was a huge commotion down by the water. Of course one of my guests came running, as they had noticed my fascination with the slithering sort.
This poor dude was just chilling out, hiding amongst the dry leaves on the river bank. But of course someone had spotted the puffadder, as it made the mistake of actually shifting position slightly. As always when a snake is discovered I get a bit nervous that it won't end well. Soon quite an audience had assembled and not only the human kind...
The vervet monkeys at Chobe River lodge are extremely cheeky and also rather aggressive. As I tried to chase one of them away from the lunch table one day, it made a couple of mock charges... but I could see in his eyes that the third time would most probably be very real and I gave up the chase, although standing my ground to defend my food, of course. Eventually it decided to raid another table a bit further away. They don't have much respect for females, no matter how confident you initially feel...
The lodge staff had fortunately called the nearby reptile centre and to everyone's delight, they showed up about an hour later.
...Well, maybe the other primates in the audience weren't as appreciative ;-)
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