Luxury African Safari Travel Review: Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Caprivi Strip, Elephants, Hippos...

We always enjoy game drives and the guides were very enthusiastic in finding and showing animals. A highlight of the trip was getting to see a dozen or so elephants in Botswana swimming across the Chobe River, which is quite deep with the consequence that the elephants became completely submersed with only a sequence of trunk tips, like periscopes, protruding from the river. The guide said that this was not a common sight. It was well worth the wait as the elephants hesitated at the river's edge. It only later became clear that the elephants were waiting for some hippos to move out of the way before beginning their swim across the Chobe to Sedudu Island.