Sussi Lodge is a luxury lodge set on a sweeping bend of the River, just 10 minutes upstream from the falls themselves. Guest accommodations consist of 10 luxury tree-houses, built into the living canopy of giant ebony trees lining the bank. Each unit has a private view of the Zambezi from its own deck set among the branches. The main lodge building features a raised bar and lounge deck, open air dining area, swimming pool and lawns sweeping down to the water’s edge where resident wildlife, such as hippopotamus and elephant often wander through on their way in and out of the park.

The park is also famous for its elephants, which are part of what is the largest surviving continuous elephant population on earth. The elephants cover most of northern Botswana and north-western Zimbabwe, and it is estimated that there are over 100,000 of them in the Chobe-Kasane area alone. The Chobe elephants are migratory, making seasonal movements of up to 200 miles from the Chobe and Linyanti rivers, where they concentrate in the dry season, to the pans in the south-east of the park.

You will arrive at Chobe Chilwero Lodge in time for lunch. The lodge is situated in the Kasane Forest Reserve bordering Chobe National Park and the 30 guests are accommodated in 15 twin luxury cottages, all of which are designed to blend in perfectly with the natural vegetation of the surrounding area. Each cottage consists of a large combined lounge and bedroom area, an en suite bathroom, private garden and a thatched “sala” or veranda furnished with hammocks and chairs. The public area consists of an elegant lounge and dining room with large open fireplaces and outdoor viewing terrace overlooking the spectacular Chobe floodplain and river. An unusual feature of the terrace is a pizza oven. The Lodge also boasts a swimming pool, library, wine cellar, curio shop and e-communications center.