A hard slog of a road today, definitely needing 4x4 for the loose sand Recommended stops: Mababe Lodge, Rustiek Hotel, Chobe Safari Lodge boat cruises. Sub-titles: Mababe Gate enter Chobe reserve, Road splits: Left - the Sand Ridge Road for wet season, Right - Marsh Road for the dry season, elephant bones, lots of road options - we were picking those that looked the most used, At -18.926683, 24.010967 the road split again. We tried the Marsh road to the right for a little bit, but there were no fresh vehicle tracks . . . . . , made a U-turn, back tracked, and then took the more used Sand Ridge Road, the first hill in many days . . ., Leopard Rock (Savuti), Savuti is a small section of the Chobe national park, Savuti has its own offices, camp sites, trails and picnic spots, typical tourist convoy of rented vehicles, Bushman Hill, Sable Hill, many vehicle tracks, soccer pitch, Savuti admin area, Savuti river channel, looking at the map . . . , near the airfield we went right and then it looked like a less used road . . . , look at map, this road was getting less used, turn onto road nearer airfield, still a narrow road, but many fresh vehicle tracks, Ghoha Hills, bad corrugations in gravel road, Ghoha gate, No longer inside Chobe reserve. Driving in 4x4 with tyre pressure 1.4 bar, long corrugation, bouncing road, watch car bonnet/hood movement, Thobolo's Bush Lodge, Kavimba, Chobe River, elephant crossing point, view across Chobe River into Namibia, Mabele,Shell fuel station - Muchenje, turn right onto A33, Ngoma - Sedudu transit control gate, The A33 cuts a straight line through the Chobe national park, parallel to the Chobe River 1-10km to the left, elephant, Speed limit in this corridor is 80km/h, exit corridor at Sedudu checkpoint, Airport, Chobe Safari Lodge to book river cruise the next day, Looking for new boat departure point, at the camp site, Kasane village, arrive at accommodation, Rustiek Hotel, park in gated courtyard, late afternoon shopping, Kasane shops close at 5pm, drive out to Kazungula, but the Tlou Safari Mall was still open (halfway to Kazungula), 0:00 Leave Mababe Lodge 0:57 Mababe Gate 8:20 Savuti camp 16:19 Ghoha Gate 20:44 Kachikau (tar starts) 23:01 Muchenje fuel station #botswana #driving #roadtrip #4k #amazing #tourist #route #chobe #mababe #savuti #kasaneteto All the music in this video was provided by YouTube at their free library https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary. The tracks include: Across the Savannah - Aaron Kenny AngloZulu, Monkonto, Night Cave, Energizing, Digya, Adding the Sun, Galway, Artifact, Journey to Ascend, River of lo, Whimsy Groove, Accralate (The Dark Continent) - Kevin MacLeod - We Are Era Music BV Nomads - The Mini Vandals Passage - Ugonna Onyekwe

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