Floating the Chobe River

Today is a travel day and travel days are always long. We will be leaving the Zambezi Crescent en route to our house boat but first we will need to cross 3 boarders Zambia, Botswana, & Namibia, all of which are by boat. Then we will be wisked away to our house boat for the next two nights.

What a fabulous finish to a spectacular day! 

WED 20 JUNE                          ON WITH THE ADVENTURE.       MOSES WILL BE PICKING YOU UP AT THE JETTY AT ABOUT 1100  FOR THE DRIVE THROUGH THE VICTORIA FALLS NATIONAL PARK TO THE BOTSWANA BORDER. THIS TAKES AN HOUR.         ONCE AGAIN HE WILL ASSIST YOU THROUGH BOTH BORDERS AND WILL THEN ACCOMPANY YOU IN THE “BOTSWANA REGISTERED VEHICLE” TO THE JETTY ON THE CHOBE RIVER.     HERE, EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE JUST CLEARED THE FORMALITIES INTO BOTSWANA YOU CLEAR OUT AGAIN WITH MOSES’S HELP AND INTO THE TENDER FROM THE CHOBE PRINCESS WHICH WILL BE MOORED WAITING TO WELCOME YOU.       A SHORT BOAT RIDE TO IMPALILA ISLAND WHERE YOU DISEMBARK AND WALK UP A ROCKY PATH (VERY ROCKY) TO THE NAMIBIAN BORDER POST.    A SLEEPY POST.   NO VISA NECESSARY.    YOU DO HAVE TO FILL IN FORMS SO PLEASE HAVE A PEN HANDY.    A QUICK STAMP INTO NAMIBIA, BACK INTO THE TENDER AND OFF YOU GO TO BOARD YOUR  CHOBE PRINCESS.    TODAY, BEING SATURDAY,   THE OFFICES OF THE PRINCESS ARE CLOSED AND THEY HAVE NOT GIVEN ME THE NAME OF THE PRINCESS YOU HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED.   THERE ARE 3 PRINCESSES 2 BOASTING 4 SUITES AND 1 BOASTING 5 SUITES.     

CHOBE PRINCESS FULL BOARD, ALL ACTIVITES, ALL LOCAL DRINKS

THERE IS NO SET PROGRAMME FOR A PRINCESS.   NORMALLY YOU ARE TAKEN TO THE BOAT, ALLOCATED YOUR SUITES AND YOU SAIL ALONG THE BYWAYS AND HIGHWAYS OF THE CHOBE RIVER WHILE YOU ENJOY A LIGHT MEAL.     GAME VIEWING IS DONE BY TENDER ALONG THE BANKS OF THE CHOBE NATIONAL PARK.     YOU WILL HAVE DONE SO MUCH 4 X 4 VIEWING WHILE AT DULENI AND OF COURSE THE ZAMBEZI RIVER CRESCENT LODGE THAT JUST TO ENJOY GAME VIEWING BY BOAT FOR THESE NEXT TWO NIGHTS WILL BE SO MUCH FUN.        YOU WILL SEE THE ZAMBEZI QUEEN,  SHE IS OF COURSE THE FLAG SHIP,  BUT,  I PREFER THESE LITTLE PRINCESSES BECAUSE THE CAN TIE UP ANYWHERE FOR OVERNIGHT.   YOUR CAPTAIN WILL CHOOSE A SPOT THAT HE FEELS YOU HAVE A CHANCE OF SEEING GAME AT NIGHT AND THERE YOU BERTH.  IT IS SO PEACEFUL.

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