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Botswana Safari: Game Drive and River Cruise Adventure
4.8
38 Ratings
Livingstone
Experience Chobe National Park: game drives, river safari, and wildlife sightings. Enjoy a buffet lunch by the riverbank. Book your adventure now.
Experience Chobe National Park: game drives, river safari, and wildlife sightings. Enjoy a buffet lunch by the riverbank. Book your adventure now.
Duration:
10 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park - As the journey progresses toward the Kazungula border, travelers will pass through the picturesque Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, providing an exciting chance to observe some of the park’s diverse wildlife along the route.
- Kazungula - Upon arrival at the Kazungula border, necessary passport stamping and visa checks…
- Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park - As the journey progresses toward the Kazungula border, travelers will pass through the picturesque Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, providing an exciting chance to observe some of the park’s diverse wildlife along the route.
- Kazungula - Upon arrival at the Kazungula border, necessary passport stamping and visa checks will be completed. Once cleared, travelers will cross the iconic Kazungula Bridge, a modern marvel, entering Botswana with breathtaking views of the Zambezi River.
- Chobe National Park - After crossing from Zambia into Botswana, travelers will embark on an unforgettable river safari along the Chobe River, followed by thrilling game drives through Chobe National Park. This park is home to one of Africa’s largest concentrations of wildlife, including numerous lions and elephants, offering a genuine safari experience. Chobe will be the final destination, where travelers will spend the remainder of their time immersed in nature, with the last hour reserved for the return journey to and from the park.
What's Included
- Boat cruise safari
- Game drive safari
- Lunch
- Carbonated beverages
- Tea and coffee
- Bottled water
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- All Fees and Taxes
- Boat cruise safari
- Game drive safari
- Lunch
- Carbonated beverages
- Tea and coffee
- Bottled water
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- All Fees and Taxes
What's Not Included
- Visa
- Visa
Additional Information
The hotel pick-ups begin around 07:00 AM. Guests are transported by road from Livingstone, taking about a 1-hour drive to Kazungula, a one-stop border where you will complete passport formalities for both the Zambian and Botswana sides after crossing the newly constructed Kazungula bridge. A guide on the Botswana side will be waiting for you. Once you…
The hotel pick-ups begin around 07:00 AM. Guests are transported by road from Livingstone, taking about a 1-hour drive to Kazungula, a one-stop border where you will complete passport formalities for both the Zambian and Botswana sides after crossing the newly constructed Kazungula bridge. A guide on the Botswana side will be waiting for you. Once you meet the guide, you will drive to our Botswana office for a short briefing about the activity. After the briefing, the guides will decide whether to start with a game drive, lunch, and then a river safari cruise, or in the reverse order. This breathtaking river is renowned for its rich elephant population, so keep an eye out for wildlife in the water and along the banks. Enjoy a fresh buffet lunch with several options at a beautiful lodge situated on the riverbank. Your open-sided vehicle will allow you to see 360 degrees around you and at great distances over the safari, which is populated with elephants, Cape buffalo, lions, and antelopes.
- Travelers under 18 years should carry their birth certificate with them,or capture it and carry it in their mobile phone.
- not recommended for mental disabilities
- Upon entering Zambia,Zimbabwe or Botswana get a KAZA visa if your country quires one.
Location
Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.8
(38 Ratings)
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Jacqueline_n
Dec 18, 2025
Game drive Chobe national park - What an amazing experience.
Achieved a life time goal of seeing a lion close up in its own natural environment.
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Iryna_u
Dec 14, 2025
Wonderful trip to Chobe - Pleasant and eventful journey. Overall it is an exciting adventure, where one gets to see and learn a lot about the wildlife. The trip includes a ride in the park and a cruise on a motorboat. This way people get to see the spectacular park from all possible angles. I would definitely recommend taking this one, time well spent!
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Shaun_s
Dec 10, 2025
Amazing Day in Chobe! - Loved Chobe! Going through immigration was smooth, and all the guides made this tour amazing! As soon as we got to the park, after about 5 minutes of driving, a leopard walked out of the bushes, such a beautiful animal!! I would've been fine going home after that. We drove around for a couple of hours and saw lions, giraffes, impalas, lots of elephants, and had a couple of velvet monkeys jump in the vehicle lol....hide your food! After the safari, we had lunch at near by lodge, very good! After lunch it was off to the river safari! Saw tons of hippos, crocs, elephants, and buffalo. A day in Chobe is a must! I highly recommend this tour!
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Eric_t
Nov 13, 2025
Amazing day! - Amazing day! Convenient, helpful, and friendly transport with pick up and drop off by David., With changes from dry to rainy season, we’re told could be 50/50 in seeing animals depending on what weather did. We saw nearly every animal we hoped! Lions, elephants, giraffe, buffalo, hippo, impala (lots!) and more. Our guide Joe was amazing, flexible, and went beyond expectation to enable us to see them. Boat ride with driver Large was also special, with up close croc pics, buffalo and lots of hippos and birds.
Food and drinks were very good.
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Alexandrial883
Nov 10, 2025
Great day in Chobe! - Great trip! The staff were very welcoming and accommodating. All of the travel was very easy and went smoothly. The time of year was definitely not ideal as it had just started to rain, so there were no elephants to be found at all since they find their water elsewhere. The guides worked so hard to find us some cool animals and we got to see lions, hippos, buffalos, impalas, crocodiles, etc. The lunch was at a really cool hotel and was delicious! All of the guides are so knowledgeable and made this a great experience!
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Daytrip54046563701
Oct 5, 2025
Had a really great time exploring Chobe with HSM Adventures! - Had a really great time exploring Chobe with HSM Adventures! I was picked up from my hotel and with another solo traveler, drove to the Botswana border where their drive picked us up, drove us around Chobe and in the afternoon did a river tour. Would highly recommend doing this safari for anyone in the area!
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Jezrel_s
Jan 7, 2026
Incredible experience despite the chaos - Chobe National Park was one of the most incredible places I’ve visited! We saw hundreds of elephants and dozens of other animals including a pride of lionesses up close. Lunch was included and was surprisingly good and the boat tour was a nice relaxing way to spend the other half of the day watching hippos and more elephants. The whole area is just so stunning and filled with wildlife.
However, this tour definitely is one of those large tour groups that sometimes can feel disorganized and impersonal. You get picked up by a separate driver that will then hand you off to another driver at the border. At the end of the tour, we were shuttled from the lodge where you have lunch and the boat tour back to the border. This process was a bit chaotic as the instructions were unclear and everyone was confused on which vehicle to get on.
The border crossing into Botswana took two hours (which the guides did say was unusually long) but we were picked up from our hotel in Livingstone at 6:30am and didn’t begin the safari drive until 10:00am. However I did appreciate the guides making a strong effort to expedite the process and they ended up pulling us out of the line to a dedicated line for tourists going to a safari.
The safari drive itself felt rushed. If it wasn’t for us and the other people in the group we would’ve missed so many animal sightings because the driver was zooming until we pointed out that we saw animals nearby. Despite that, it was still a great experience because of how there was so much wildlife everywhere. You look left and right at any given minute and there was something to see. The highlight was this large meadow that you drive down to and you can see herds of elephants as far as the eyes can see.
Despite the chaos, I still recommend this tour. The guides were friendly and tried their best to make the experience good. Understandably for this price point, you won’t get too much of a personalized experience so keep that in mind. Again, the national park is teeming with wildlife and is a must do.
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Moshicat1
Dec 24, 2025
Fun and memorable. - The weather was the beginning of the rainy season so animals were difficult to find. The guides were great and entertaining and pointed out what was available. The boat trip was wonderful with lots of hippos and water fowl.
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David_b
Nov 25, 2025
More elephants than we’ve... - More elephants than we’ve ever seen before in large family herds - seen from both car & boat.
Plenty of buffalo, hippos & crocodiles seen from boat.
Sable antelopes were spectacular.
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Dreamer457757
Oct 26, 2025
Forgot to pick us up - It would have been 5 out of 5 if we had been picked up. But they forgot us . If it hadn’t been for Customer Service at Elephant Hills Resort getting in touch with the company via email we would have missed out. No one answered the company’s “all hours” phone .
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