Nata Hotels - Reviews and Rates

It's another hot evening and the heat chases us out of our tent by 6 AM. Breakfast isn’t even scheduled until 8. We are overheated and looking for a place to cool down. Fortunately, there is a light breeze blowing once you are away from the tents which are just too close together for any cooling effect from the wind.

It has only be...

Nata Lodge, Nata 1st & 2nd September 2009

The drive from Kasane to Nata is on a tar road, but after reaching the veterinary fence gate just about 50km north of Nata were some of the biggest and worst potholes imaginable. This stretch of road was the worst we had encountered and needs to be driven with extreme care. All the way down we...

We are waking up early from all the birds that are making a big noise to welcome the new day. The drive to the salt lake before breakfast is giving us a good idea of the time when all the birds are here. The flamingos are rather far away and not as abundant as expected, but there are sufficient pelicans, ducks, etc. to make the viewing interesti...

What a difference a day makes (just like in South Luangwa) - our first night here was interrupted by the various night activities of several species of animals, but last night was quiet, quiet, quiet! I have just woken (6.13) to the sounds of the insects and birds, but nothing bigger than that - in fact I didn't wake at all in the night! The moo...

Left beautiful Chobe and headed south to Nata and the Maghadighadi Salt Pans. Stopped at the flamingo bird sanctuary - thousands of pink flamingoes, but very far in the distance of the great salt pan. Drove on to 'Planet Boabab' - lovely campsite in the middle of nowhere, aptly named for its abundance of mighty Boabab trees. Great African bar an...

Nata was the perfect stop, last year I stayed in very nice hotel, The Nata Logde. It's an expensive place but with a very cheap campsite. There is a nice swimming pool and a cool bar restaurant. I stayed there 3 days before hitting the road again toward Kazane and the Botswana|Zambia border post. I hitchhiked and got a ride pretty quickly. The d...

It was near 1130 that we crossed the border into Botswana. After an uneventful stamping of passports (yes, I am still hoping for a border crossing episode to add to the list of misadventures on this trip) we made a short petrol stop. Here we changed some US dollars into Botswana 'Pula', an even more decorative bank note than the South African Ra...