Chobe National Park Stories


Holy Moly, HIV Monkey Research at Chobe Safari Lodge !

We saw monkey reserch into siv / hiv in action at Chobe Safari Lodge campsite while we were there. Several very young 'researchers' and an older one were capturing vervet monekeys with an interesting trap, darting them, and then measuring and taking samples from them, leaving them in the bush under a blanket to recover. For more tips on how we tra...


Gameless & Meatless

We were gameless today. Without a vehicle, we couldn’t go see any animals. We were prisoners of our own campsite. Just frittered away the day reading books on mammal identification, learning more than I ever wanted to know about scat & spoor. Gabriel spent most of his day alternately pacing and cussing. A young white couple from South Africa drove ...


The Warden and his Gay Boy Scouts

Our morning game drive wound around several massive kopje’s, the perfect outcropping for a leopard den. This was the animal I was most hoping to see. Pure stealth. Gorgeous, vicious, solitary, reclusive. Is there a more charismatic combination of traits? We pressed on and passed the campsite of an elderly white couple with a late 60’ model Landcrui...


Just by the hair on my Chiny-Chin-Chin

After a coffee, a rock hard stale bisquit, and a bowl of cereal, we broke camp while the fire was still smoldering from the previous night. On our way out at 6:30am, we recognized a guy we had seen two nights earlier at 3rd Bridge camp. We stopped by his site to see if we could buy some spare fuel from him. He didn’t have enough to sell us any but he...