Meno a Kwena sits on a clifftop above the Boteti River on the western boundary of Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, on tribal land rather than inside the park. The position does the work: the river below is where the game comes to drink, and you watch it from a chair. There is also a floating photographic hide at water level.
Quick facts
- Area
- Makgadikgadi and Nata
- Property type
- Tented Camp
- Setting
- Clifftop above the Boteti River, western boundary of Makgadikgadi Pans National Park
- Nearest park or reserve
- Makgadikgadi Pans National Park
Tents at Meno a Kwena
Ten tents: six twins, two kings and two family units, taking around twenty guests. En-suite bathrooms with indoor and outdoor showers, Wi-Fi in rooms, battery charging and complimentary laundry.
Facilities at Meno a Kwena
A swimming pool, dining and lounge tents, and the floating hide on the Boteti.
Who it suits
Photographers, families — the camp welcomes all ages — and anyone who wants the Makgadikgadi without a charter flight.
Location and access
Road access from Maun, roughly two hours. That makes it one of the few genuinely good camps in this region you can reach without flying.
How we checked this listing
Tent counts and configuration, the all-ages policy, the floating hide, the zebra migration months and the drive time from Maun come from the Natural Selection operator page for this camp. We have not stayed here.
A floating hide is rarer than it sounds
Water-level photography of drinking animals is one of the hardest images to get in Botswana, because almost every waterhole hide is fixed and dug in. A hide that floats sits at the eye level of whatever is drinking and moves with the river. If you are carrying a camera seriously, this single facility may be the reason to choose the camp.
The Boteti and the zebra migration
Botswana’s zebra move between the Chobe–Linyanti system and the Makgadikgadi, and between roughly April and October they concentrate on the Boteti because it is the water. The operator flags exactly those months. It is the second-largest terrestrial migration in Africa and it happens in front of this camp.
Booking this property
Meno a Kwena sells through the operator and through safari agents rather than as a nightly-rate hotel room.
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What we publish, and what we do not
We publish no nightly rate, no live availability, no star rating and no review score of our own. Those move with season and occupancy, and a figure copied once is a figure that goes stale. What we publish is what the property is, where it sits, who it suits and how you reach it.
Plan the rest of your trip
Read our guide to Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, the wider Makgadikgadi, or start from Maun, two hours away.
