The cheapest bed
Water Lily Lodge
A small lodge on the bank of the Chobe River in Kasane for up to 30 guests, with budget rooms from $60 per person sharing on its own site.
Botswana · national park since 1968
Chobe National Park Independent Guides & Information
The Chobe River floods with Zambezi water: from about March to May the bigger river backs up and spills across the floodplain, and by October, the hottest month, elephants and buffalo crowd the banks. Sedudu Gate is 7 km from Kasane; Savuti is about 165 km away, the last 70 of them deep sand.
Photo: AoneMokwena (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Current DWNP fees, with Chobe's own P115 vehicle rate and the postponed increase
The river flood explained: Zambezi water, March to May
Every lodge and campsite listed with who owns it and whether it is really inside the park
Run independently of any operator or booking site
Where Chobe National Park is, and which gate you want
Chobe fills the north-east corner of Botswana. Sedudu Gate, 7 km from Kasane, opens onto the Riverfront and Ngoma Gate closes it at the Namibian border. Savuti, in the south-west, is reached through Ghoha Gate from Kasane, about 165 km, or Mababe Gate from Maun, about 200 km.
- 1 Sedudu Gate Main Riverfront entrance on the western edge of Kasane, about 7 km by road from the town centre; pay park fees here
- 2 Ngoma Gate Western end of the Riverfront, beside the Ngoma Bridge border post with Namibia; start of the route to Savuti
- 3 Ghoha Gate Northern gate of the Savuti section, about 40 km of deep sand from Kachikau
- 4 Mababe Gate Southern gate of the Savuti section, on the route from Maun and Khwai
- 5 Kasane Airport Kasane International Airport (BBK), about 5.6 km by road from Kasane centre
- 6 Kasane Gateway town: fuel, supermarkets, banks, hospital and the boat-cruise jetties
- 7 Chobe Game Lodge The only permanent lodge on the Riverfront inside the park, established in 1973
- 8 Serondela Riverfront picnic site at the old saw-mill settlement
- 9 Ihaha Riverfront campsite inside the park, 10 sites run by Kwalate Safaris
- 10 Savuti Campsite Public campsite beside the Savuti Channel, 14 sites run by SKL Group of Camps
- 11 Savuti Airstrip (FBSV) Airstrip for the fly-in Savuti lodges
- 12 Savuti Marsh Centre of the mapped marsh on the floor of the Mababe Depression; the usual viewing area lies at its northern end, near the campsite
- 13 Gubatsa Hills rock paintings Rock paintings in the hills south of Savuti Campsite, marked "Bushman Paintings" in OpenStreetMap
- 14 Linyanti Campsite Public campsite on the Linyanti River in the park's north-west, 5 sites run by SKL Group of Camps
- 15 Nogatsaa Pan Interior clay pan with a pumped waterhole and a game hide
- 16 Kazungula Bridge Botswana to Zambia road bridge over the Zambezi, opened 10 May 2021; border post 06:00 to 22:00 (outside the park)
- Pan with a hide or viewing platform
- Dam
- Gate or barrier on the map
- Tarred trunk road
Why this guide exists, and where the numbers come from
This guide is written by someone who overlanded much of Africa in his own Land Cruiser with a rooftop tent, and for whom the national parks were what stayed. The information about them online was usually missing, wrong or years old: fees from three tariff sheets ago, camps that had closed, roads described by people who had never driven them.
So this guide runs on the park authority's own tariff document rather than a copied operator page, on thirty-year climate normals rather than brochure weather, and on what the camps tell us directly. Every claim carries a date. Where DWNP is silent, so are we, apart from saying that it is silent.
Nothing here is for sale. Listing a camp is free and no position on any page can be bought. Some outbound links earn us a small commission, and that changes neither the order of a list nor a single figure on these pages.
Found something out of date? Tell us and it changes the same week.
Where to stay in Chobe National Park
54 places to stay, from a campsite on the Riverfront to the park's only permanent lodge on the river. These four are not the best four; they are the four that mark out the range.
Camping on the river, inside the park
Ihaha Campsite
Ten sites on DWNP land about 35 km west of Kasane, run by Kwalate Safaris: the only public campsite on the Chobe Riverfront.
Mid-range in Kasane
Kubu Lodge
Eleven thatched units on the river, owner-managed since 1986, at $422 per chalet for two on bed and breakfast in 2026.
The top end
Chobe Game Lodge
Desert & Delta's lodge inside the park, the only permanent lodge on the Chobe Riverfront within the boundary, from $1,090 per person a night on reseller rates.
Everything you need to plan a visit
Entry fees
P270 a day for non-residents and P115 for a foreign car, a Chobe-only rate. Why the 2026 increase was postponed, and what the campsites add.
See the fees →Lodges & camps
From Savuti campsites at about $50 a night to Chobe Game Lodge, the only permanent lodge on the Riverfront inside the park.
Browse lodges →Getting there
Sedudu Gate is 7 km from Kasane, Savuti 165 km by tar and deep sand, Victoria Falls 95 km by road. Routes, borders and fuel.
Plan the route →Wildlife
About 15,400 elephants in the park's 2018 survey strata, Botswana's only puku on the floodplain, and Savuti lions that hunt young elephants.
What you'll see →Best time to visit
The floodplain floods March to May with Zambezi water, and the game crowds the river from May to October. Every month explained.
Pick your month →Things to do
Boat cruises and game drives from Kasane, self-drive on the Riverfront, Savuti's rock paintings, and why night drives and walks happen outside the park.
See activities →Our own research
We priced every park in Africa
We collect the official tariff of every park we cover, convert it, and hold each one to the same standard day. Twenty-nine parks are in the index now, the famous ones included. These three pages come out of that table.
The most expensive safari parks in Africa
Ngorongoro charges $278 for a standard day and $148 of that is the descent into the crater. The ranking straight down, with the line item behind each number.
See the ranking →The most expensive parks for self-drivers
One person, one car, no one to split the vehicle fee or the campsite with. Uganda's foreign-vehicle tariff turns the order upside down.
See the self-drive ranking →Africa's most expensive published safari beds
The highest nightly rates any camp in our network puts in writing, and why the real top of the market names no price at all.
See the rates →Latest updates to this guide
Every change to this guide, dated.
- 2026-10-04 First edition of Visit Chobe: entry fees from the DWNP schedule in force since 1 April 2022 (checked 4 October 2026), with Chobe's own P115 vehicle rate and the postponed P500 increase; 54 places to stay in and around the park, with who owns them and whether they are inside the boundary; the four public campsites; a map with 16 coordinates; and a page for every month. See the page