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Bean’s Botswana Adventures
The Wonderful City of Maun
Based out of the city of Maun, in the northern region of Botswana, Bean’s Botswana Adventures is sure to give you the time of your life. As the tourism capital, Maun is the gateway to the Okavango Delta and the Moremi Game Reserve. Established by the Batawana people as their tribal capital in 1915, Maun has had a reputation of being a ‘Wild West’ town for local cattle ranching and hunting operations. After the growth of the tourism industry and the completion of a road linking the city and Nata, Maun developed rapidly and lost much of its old frontier character in the early 1990s. The large city, now home to 30,000, is spread across the banks of the Thamalakane River, where the local donkeys, goats, and cattle can still be seen grazing. Maun offers several good shopping centers, filling stations, and a variety of hotels and lodges to choose from. The Maun Airport, one of the busiest in Southern Africa, brings tourists straight into the city from all over the world (Government of Botswana).

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Bean’s Botswana Adventures is a week long “adventure” in the Okavango region based out of Maun, Botswana. Only five people and the tour operator go on an “adventure” at one time because of the type of vehicle needed for the trip. First off, I would suggest lodging at the beautiful Best Western Riley’s Hotel on your first night of arrival. It is set right on the riverbank next to the main traffic circle, making it centrally located to just about everything. As a popular stopover for tourists traveling in and out of the Delta, this hotel has been an important landmark since the 1920s. Following the riverbank of the Thamalakane upstream from the hotel is the small Maun Game Reserve. It is an eight squared kilometer area of woodland that is traversed by many walking trails (Government of Botswana).
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