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6 Tips When Traveling to Chobe National Park
6 Tips When Traveling to Chobe National Park that you should keep in mind, if you are planning a trip.
There’s so many activities to do when traveling to the Victoria Falls, or doing a day trip activity to the Chobe National Park.
For those who are new here, we are twin South African travel bloggers, inspiring you to travel more! Our page is to create travel content, and showcase our travel tips and experiences. Itinerary planning can be quite time consuming, but with Lauren’s travel background it’s like second nature to her.
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6 Tips when Traveling to Chobe National Park
1.) All Fees Included
When booking your activities, make sure that the park fees, entrance fees and conservation fees are all included, so that you don’t have to lay out extra money when you are there.
Going on holiday knowing that all your expenses are paid for, has to be the best feeling! Leaving you with more money for souvenirs 🙂
2.) Split Activity Days
The full day activities can be busy. Try to split your itinerary into one full day activity, one half day activity, so that you can also breathe and take it all in.
No chill zone? Totally up to you to have a jam packed itinerary, we prefer to split our activities to have more time to relax at the pool and go for spa treatments.
3.) Lightweight Clothing
Take lightweight clothing, as it can get really hot and humid. That is all…
4.) Sunblock, Sunhat and Sunglasses
Just like point 3, these are very important. Sunblock, sunhat and sunglasses! African sun is hot hot! Nobody wants sunstroke.
5.) Walking Shoes
Pack a comfortable pair of walking shoes, lots of walking around and exploring to be done on your trip to Chobe National Park. Also, they most likely will get wet. So leave behind your favourite pair of shoes.
6.) Camera
Being surrounded by water on your trip to Chobe National Park, try make sure your camera is waterproof or has a waterproof case. Worst case scenario, have insurance on your valuable items.
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Have you traveled to Chobe National Park before?
If you have traveled to the Victoria Falls region/ Chobe National Park before, let us know which of our 6 tips you would make a priority! It can be all 6 tips too 😉
For those of you are dreaming of a trip to the Victoria Falls, read our Exciting 5 Day Itinerary to The Victoria Falls and take notes.
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Why These Three Pillars Are Our Main Focus In Our Blog
Our three main pillars
Find out why these three pillars are our main focus in our travel blog.
The three main pillars which we want to base our travel blog around, are: wildlife, travel and nature.
As you may have read in our previous blog, “Welcome to our travel blog”, tourism has been a big part of our lives for some time now.
“We aim to educate and promote responsible tourism throughout our travel blog journey”
1.) Life as a travel consultant
Working in the travel industry allowed me to learn about various destinations, property groups and accommodation types throughout Southern Africa and around the world.
My main responsibility in the travel industry was reservations for Southern Africa and South Africa. But safari reservations would always stand out to me, because I always had a fun time planning those travel itineraries. Thinking about all the properties while writing this blog post, makes me want to mention all of them! Let’s just say there are so many options!
Educational experience
When your job is to sell all these fabulous properties, all you want to do is visit them! Sitting at your desk dreaming all day….. Thankfully there are amazing opportunities within the travel industry to view properties and go on educationals – those are real fun! Meeting the travel agents and properties that you work with each day and getting to establish relationships outside of the workplace, made your role in travel more enjoyable.
One amazing opportunity that I clearly remembering visiting on an educational, is Bushmans Kloof. I have always wanted to travel to this magical oasis in the Cederberg region. If you are thinking of a retreat, consider booking a night or two here.
2.) Wildlife poaching and conservation
Wildlife poaching has always been something that we have known about, and heard about in the media. Especially the time period when rhino poaching was real real bad. Not that it isn’t around anymore, or maybe it is the fact that we don’t hear about all the incidents, and are not exposed to the reality of these attacks, but you tend to forget the severity of these acts on our wildlife.
Volunteer
In 2015 I decided to volunteer at a wildlife conservation centre, close to the Kruger National Park. As mentioned before, I was always aware of wildlife poaching, but nothing can prepare you for first hand experience when you get called to help with two rhino poaching incidents in the space of two weeks!
Without a doubt, the rawness is also something that I will never forget. Imagine this, one minute you are sitting around the fire relaxing, and then the next you are within metres witnessing a rhino calf, fighting to stay alive.
Despite what the rangers go through, there are many instances where calves die due to the outdoor elements. The lucky ones that are found, are nonetheless give a second chance of life.
Our goal
We aim to create content about wildlife poaching on our platform. Firstly so that we can bring awareness and educate. Secondly to showcase the reality of poaching.
“Beach, bush, mountain – you will always manage to find one of these options without having to travel too far.”
3.) Natural beauty
Being surrounded by any form of nature is where you will find us hanging out often. There is just something that is so soul refreshing, above all allows you to slow down and just enjoy being present. Luckily for us, being in Cape Town, we have an abundance of options throughout our country. Beach, bush, mountain – you will always manage to find one of these options, without having to travel too far.
We aim to educate and promote responsible tourism throughout our travel blog journey and most importantly, hope to meet amazing like minded travellers along the way!
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