Your Botswana holiday beckons from Maun town, dusty and old-fashioned, run-down yet modernized. African yet cosmopolitan, Maun is the crazy center of varied accommodation choices and packages into the wilderness – the everything safari hub. Maun is the gateway to the Okavango Delta Botswana. Hotel, tented camps, and lodge information to help plan a safari to the delta’s best safari areas.
Maun is one of the best places to visit this 2024, the crazy launching pad for once-in-a-lifetime packages to safari camps deep inside the Okavango Delta. Maun is indeed a one-horse town before visitors experience the Okavango Delta – remote, wild, and wonderful. Get there easily in a 4×4, a plane, or a helicopter.
Set up and stock up in Maun town, the springboard for the most sought-after Botswana safari holidays. There is no shortage of characterful accommodation here – hotels, guest houses, bed and breakfasts, self-catering units, fancy lodges, and campsites galore. Cute bars and cafes offer wholesome foods and meals for hungry visitors in Maun.
Maun comes from the word Maung meaning ‘Place of River Reeds’, named after the reeds growing in the nearby Thamalakane River. Once the bastion of the Batawana people in 1915. Now, one of the oldest hotels still in operation is Riley’s Hotel, built in 1910 by Harry Riley as a vital resting and drinking base for big game hunters.
Maun belongs to all the donkeys and goats – once a cattle ranching and hunting colonial frontier town and now a depot where rural livestock roam.
Contact Voyage2Africa for an unbeatable safari tour itinerary that starts and ends in Maun.
