Caprivi strip
The Caprivi strip is a 30 km wide strip in the north-easy of Namibia, located between Angola and Botswana. The Caprivi strip is the easiest route to Victoria Falls, Chobe National Park and back to inland Namibia. Although many travellers mainly use the Caprivi strip to drive through, this patch of land also offers beautiful, small national parks, such as Mamili National Park and Bwabwata National Park, and wildlife that are certainly worth visiting.
In terms of nature, the Caprivi strip is very different from other areas in Namibia. In fact, the Caprivi strip is totally different from other areas in Namibia in many respects. The landscape of this long strip of land is much greener and more watery. This is because it is situated between the Okavango Panhandle and Moremi Game Reserve with many water sources.
The Caprivi strip falls under two administrative Namibian regions: the western half is part of the Kavango region, the eastern half is part of the Zambezi region. The strip begins in the north-east of the country on the 21st degree east longitude and stretches 450 km to the east, all the way to where the Chobe River splits from the Zambezi.
In 2013, the Namibian government changed the name of the Caprivi strip in order to help forget the German oppression. The new name of the Caprivi strip is Zambezi Region. The original name comes from the German Chancellor General Count Leo von Caprivi. The strip was added to the former German colony of German South West Africa on 1 July 1890. With the Caprivi strip, Germany wanted to create a link to German East Africa (what is now Tanzania), its other colony in Africa. Due to activities in Zimbabwe, this plan never came to fruition.