© Jim Browne 2010 Money can buy a private guide. Fish market at Border Control Post. Fishing was a common passtime and there seemed to be plenty of fish. A catch for sale. Fronting the Chobe River, this was our home for 3 days and the base for a couple of river trips and some night and morning game drives.  The Chobe Game Reserve is said to be home to 45,000 elephants and from the area we toured, adjacent to the river - it looks like it too! - smashed up and stripped of herbage.  Our Home Page shows a large mob of elephants grazing the river flats - we counted around 350 in three mobs we saw. Chobe Lodge entry Walking towards the dining hall and the river Collecting together for our first river cruise Our ground floor unit The Rivers are an important focus of daily life with many earning a livelihood from fishing.  Fishing can be dangerous - a local was taken by a Hippo while fishing in the reeds just opposite our Lodge during our stay. Our cruise boat Table Art - the live thing could be seen grazing just across the river. Morning tea Wart Hogs - as seen from our room Local river Taxi - Border Control is a joke. Park Ranger camp Yes they are a bonded pair - Bird will catch fish for the Croc. Tourists everywhere. Elephants - we counted over 350 that afternoon Mother and child. Some is big and some enormous. Hippo - the most dangerous animal on the river Hippo herd - so inocent - yet so dangerous Hippo seem harmless .. BUT This is actually a friendship and not “Bird for breakfast” Taxi !