Description
The Best Mobile Safari Ever.
From their base in Kasane, in northeast Botswana, Peter and Salome Comley, under the rather apt name of Safari Guide Services (SGS), run a range of mobile safaris into various national parks in the region. Located as they are in the so-called Kazungula Enclave, where the 4 countries of Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Namibia meet, they are  able to plan your safari with all the local knowledge required to ensure it is an ultimate experience. 
Our 10-day safari took us to the Chobe River and Savuti areas of the Chobe National Park and into the Moremi Wildlife Reserve. This was everything a camping experience in the African bush should be - simple but comfortable without the hassles of packing and unpacking, pitching tents, erecting showers, digging toilets, making fires or preparing food. All this was done for us, while we got on with the business of relaxing, going on a game drive or sipping a sundowner.
Our campsites were all well placed to take full advantage of the uniqueness of each region. Chobe National Park has a great diversity of habitats, its large elephant herds perhaps its main attraction. Our first camp was situated on the banks of the Chobe River, which forms the international boundary with Namibia and which together with the Linyanthi flows into the mighty Zambezi. Here we never tired of the sight of the many elephant and buffalo that came down to the river in the late afternoon  to drink, their shapes gradually turning to silhouettes in the twilight as we lingered that bit longer.
Further south, Savuti is famous for its lions that follow the herds of zebra, wildebeest and antelope that congregate on the vast grassy plains of the Savuti Marsh. In winter when the pans dry out and water becomes increasingly scarce there are several waterholes, fed by boreholes, which make for great game viewing. We spent many hours at one such waterhole known as ‘Pump Pan’, located not far from the public campsite. We watched in awe as the elephants arrived in their hundreds and such was the clamour for water that even the doves seemed to wait their turn in case they got trampled beneath impatient feet.
We moved on to Moremi with some reluctance, as this was our last port of call. Moremi forms the northeastern part of the incredible Okavango Delta and the park has typical fringe wetland areas with grassy plains and pans surrounded by mopane forests and riverine woodland. Most of the reserve lies above the level of the floodplains and does not become inundated. We were spoilt for choice as we roamed between the excellent game viewing areas of Khwai, Xakaxana and Third Bridge. The pans and lagoons had large numbers of hippos and crocodiles and we saw herds of elephant and zebra in the mopane woodlands.
Scenically beautiful, Moremi was a fitting finale to our mobile safari, which had provided what had perhaps been our most intimate experience of the wild for some time. Getting this close to nature had made it easy to leave the stresses of city life behind and fall in with the rhythm of the African bush.
Text and photographs by Africa Imagery.
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