Kumaga Campsites is the public campsite inside Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, on the eastern bank of the Boteti River just north of Kumaga Gate. It is run by the SKL Group of Camps, it is unfenced, and the final two kilometres of the approach are deep sand. It is also the cheapest way to wake up on the Boteti in zebra season.
Quick facts
- Area
- Makgadikgadi and Nata
- Property type
- Campsite
- Setting
- East bank of the Boteti inside Makgadikgadi Pans National Park
- Nearest park or reserve
- Makgadikgadi Pans National Park
Camping
Ten numbered campsites with shaded pitches and braai areas. Two ablution blocks with flush toilets and hot and cold showers, water standpipes, and a laundry facility. No power, no shop, no restaurant, and no cellphone reception.
Facilities at Kumaga Campsites
That list is the facilities. This is a national park campsite and nothing else is provided. Pre-booking is mandatory, and park entry fees are charged separately from the camping fee.
Who it suits
Equipped self-drivers who want to be inside the park on the river rather than looking at it from the far bank.
Location and access
About 2 km north of Kumaga Gate, of which the final 2 km is deep sand requiring 4×4. The approach runs from the Maun–Rakops road via Khumaga village. SKL requires a 4×4 with GPS.
How we checked this listing
Site counts, facilities and access requirements come from the SKL Group of Camps’ own page and rate sheet, and from Tracks4Africa. Note that SKL’s own page describes the campsite as being in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve; that is an error in their copy. Kumaga is in Makgadikgadi Pans National Park.
East bank, inside the park
Kumaga and Leroo La Tau are constantly confused because both are described as being at Khumaga. They sit on opposite banks of the Boteti and are reached by different roads. Kumaga is the east bank, inside the national park; Leroo La Tau is the west bank, outside it.
Being inside means the game comes through your camp rather than to the opposite shore. In the dry season, when the Makgadikgadi zebra concentrate on the Boteti, that is a considerable difference — and it is unfenced, so it is also a considerable responsibility.
Two spellings, one campsite
The operator writes Kumaga. The parks department, Tracks4Africa and most travellers write Khumaga. They are the same place. If you are searching for reviews or GPS tracks, try both spellings.
Book well ahead. Botswana’s public campsites are run by concessionaires rather than the parks department and the dry-season pitches go months in advance — our 4×4 and vehicle requirements guide covers what you need to have with you when you get there.
Who Kumaga Campsites suits
- Equipped self-drivers with a 4×4, water, recovery gear and everything else they will need.
- Dry-season visitors who want the Boteti zebra from inside the park.
- Travellers linking Maun with the pans on a self-drive route through Rakops.
It suits you less if you are not comfortable unfenced, are driving anything other than a 4×4, or want any facility beyond a shower and a tap.
Booking this property
SKL runs an online booking system, but the individual campsite is chosen inside the engine rather than at a direct link, so we have not published a booking button that would land you somewhere ambiguous. Book through SKL’s own site, linked below.
Book or compare
We have not been able to confirm a booking route for Kumaga Campsites specifically. Rather than send you to a property that is not this one, the availability button compares stays across Makgadikgadi and Nata. It does not claim to open this property.
We publish no rate here. Prices move with season, occupancy and cancellation terms, and a figure copied once is a figure that goes stale.
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What we publish, and what we do not
We publish no rates, no availability, no star ratings and no review scores of our own. Where an operator’s own page contains an error, as it does here about which national park this is, we say so rather than repeat it.
