Qualla: Maun, Botswana https://qualla.com/maun-botswana en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/k/s/2/w/maun-botswana-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Maun, Botswana https://qualla.com/maun-botswana Maun, Botswana: Introduction https://qualla.com/maun-botswana/ Photo credit Public domain. Donkeys own the streets of Maun. They stand in traffic circles, block shop entrances, and doze in the shade of safari outfitters advertising helicopter flights over the Okavango Delta. This is Botswana's self-proclaimed "tourism capital" -- a settlement of 85,293 people that officially remains classified as a village, no matter how many international flights land at its airport or how many Land Cruisers roll through on their way to the wild. The contradiction is the whole point. Maun exists at the seam between modern Africa and something far older, and it has never been particularly interested in choosing one over the other.

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/s/2/w/maun-botswana-wp/ks2w-maun-botswana-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Maun, Botswana: Batawana Origins https://qualla.com/maun-botswana/ Photo credit Graf-flugplatz, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Batawana people founded Maun in 1915 as their tribal capital, choosing a site along the Thamalakane River where water and grazing land converged. The settlement quickly developed a reputation as a hard-living frontier town -- a place of cattle ranchers, hunters, and traders w...

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/s/2/w/maun-botswana-wp/ks2w-maun-botswana-batawana-origins.mp3 0:06 2 full Maun, Botswana: Where the Wild Things Graze https://qualla.com/maun-botswana/ Photo credit Graf-flugplatz, CC BY-SA 3.0. Walk along the wide banks of the Thamalakane and you will see something that captures Maun's identity better than any brochure. Red lechwe -- handsome chestnut-colored antelopes with lyre-shaped horns -- graze in the reeds alongside local donkeys, goats, and cattle. The animals c...

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/s/2/w/maun-botswana-wp/ks2w-maun-botswana-where-the-wild-things-graze.mp3 0:06 3 full Maun, Botswana: Gateway to the Delta https://qualla.com/maun-botswana/ Photo credit Susanne Mattes, CC BY-SA 3.0. Maun International Airport is the funnel through which most of Botswana's safari tourism flows. Charter planes buzz in and out constantly, ferrying visitors to luxury camps scattered across the Okavango Delta and the Makgadikgadi Pans. For those traveling overland, Maun is where ...

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/s/2/w/maun-botswana-wp/ks2w-maun-botswana-gateway-to-the-delta.mp3 0:06 4 full Maun, Botswana: Heat, Dust, and Reinvention https://qualla.com/maun-botswana/ Photo credit Mack Air, CC BY-SA 4.0. Maun's climate does not deal in half measures. On January 7, 2016, the temperature reached 44.0 degrees Celsius -- the highest ever recorded anywhere in Botswana. The hot semi-arid climate means scorching summers, mild winters, and a rhythm of life dictated by the rains. When the...

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