Chobe Game Lodge Botswana will be celebrating 50 years of operation in 2024

Chobe Game Lodge Botswana

Owned and operated by Desert & Delta Safaris, the lodge is set on the banks of the Chobe River, in the Chobe National Park, among the world’s highest concentration of elephants.

Two years after opening, in 1973, it welcomed Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in a whirlwind reunion just a year after their divorcing. 

The Chobe Game Lodge is a trailblazer in female empowerment with Chobe’s Angels, Africa’s first all-female professional guiding team. 

Chobe also launched the first fleet of electric game-drive vehicles in Africa in 2014, and also has a fleet of three solarpowered electric boats. 

Its environmental plan encompasses all aspects of Chobe’s operations, from energy conservation, water stewardship, recycling initiatives, and waste management such as reducing food waste. 

Chobe monitors monthly energy consumption, and in addition to daily weighing, all organic waste is composted, and all inorganic waste is recycled through licensed waste carriers which eliminates the dumping of waste at landfills. 

Desert & Delta Safaris has a range of lodges and game reserves in Botswana in the Chobe National Park; the Okavango Delta and Panhandle; the Moremi Game Reserve and the Boteti River on the border of the Makgadikgadi Pans National Park. 

These are safari locations a wide spectrum of wildlife from impala and buffalo to wildebeest, elephant, and zebra, lions, and cheetahs. 

* www.desertdelta.com/camps/chobe-game-lodge/ 

* Becky Hampson at becky@storringtoncollective.com