River cruises have been a popular way to explore Europe from a different angle for quite some time, but it's not something people necessarily associate with an Africa vacation. However, river cruises ...

An estimated 120,000 elephants call Botswana's Chobe National Park home, one of the largest concentration of elephants in the world. With numbers like this, the odds are high that you’ll be viewing ...

Offering an unparallel view of the pristine Chobe River in Zambia, this African safari resort is actually a boat house crafted to perfection, offering 5-star hospitality and services. Titled the ...

The Zambezi Queen, a recent addition to the luxury river cruise market, takes guests on safari cruises along the Chobe River in Botswana. The area is home to some of the densest populations of ...

Travel Promoters is delighted to extend a warm welcome to the Zambezi Queen Collection by Mantis, joining its portfolio of “properties with personality”. Located on the great Chobe River that borders ...

“Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world … an empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest,” wrote Joseph Conrad in classic novella “Heart of ...

With our many rivers, it’s sad that house-boating in southern Africa is not as big as the paddle and steam boat traditions of the Mississippi. There are probably good reasons for this. The regular ...

A pod of six hippos is lounging amongst the lily pads on the Botswana side of Africa's Chobe River. Mostly submerged, they look comically similar to crocodiles, with only their nostrils, eyes and ears ...

The baby elephant is clearly having fun, rolling around in the mud on the riverbank. Other elephants scoop out big soccer balls of goopy mud with their tusks, which they fling under their bellies and ...

Creating a unique travel option in the Chobe, one of Africa's finest national parks stretching across 11, 000 km² of lush African bush was the inspiration behind the eco-friendly Zambezi Queen River ...

Floor-to-ceiling windows dominate a stateroom on the Zambezi Queen. My first morning aboard the Zambezi Queen, I roused myself at 5 a.m.--I had a hunch that the sunrise would be spectacular. I’d been ...