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Browse tours A big-game day across the border in Botswana — a Chobe River cruise among the elephants, a 4x4 afternoon drive and a buffet lunch, all out of Victoria Falls.
This is the easiest way to add Botswana to a Victoria Falls trip: a full day across the border into Chobe National Park, famous for some of the largest elephant herds in Africa. A morning river cruise puts you among hippo, buffalo and elephant on the water; an afternoon 4x4 drive goes looking for the Big Five on land.
Pickup, transfers and the border formalities are handled for you, and a buffet lunch at a riverside lodge breaks up the day. It is a long but richly rewarding day trip — the single best Chobe sampler from the Falls.
Collected from your Victoria Falls hotel and driven to the Kazungula border into Botswana, near where four countries meet.
A boat cruise along the Chobe River among elephant, hippo, buffalo and prolific birdlife, followed by a buffet lunch at a riverside lodge.
An open-top 4x4 drive through Chobe National Park in search of lion, leopard and the rest of the Big Five.
Recross the border and transfer back to your accommodation in Victoria Falls.