Muchenje Safari Lodge
Owner-run escarpment cottages · Chobe Forest Reserve, escarpment by the park's western boundary · Muchenje Safari Lodge (owner-run)
Top-end
Outside the gate
Owner-run
An independently owned and owner-run lodge of cottages on the escarpment in the Chobe Forest Reserve, a short drive from the park, with no fences between the lodge and the park's western boundary. Being outside the park lets it offer what lodges inside cannot: a night-time safari and an early-morning game walk, weather permitting, alongside game drives into the western end of the park, a Sedudu boat cruise and lunch at Ihaha. The reseller's rate includes unlimited daily activities and park fees. Children must be eight or older. Choose it for the extra activities and a personal welcome; skip it if you want to sleep inside the boundary.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Owner-run
- Night safaris and walks, not allowed inside the park
- Unlimited activities and park fees in the reseller's rate
- Unfenced from the park's western boundary
Cons
- No children under 8, per the reseller
- Rates come from a reseller
- Cottage count not published
- The lodge page on its own site returned an error
What's here
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
- Boat trips
- Guided walks
- Night drives
Read from Muchenje Safari Lodge's own website in July 2026. Anything not listed we could not confirm, which is not the same as it being absent.
What the park charges on top
The rate above buys you a bed. Chobe National Park charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entryP270 a day for non-residents, roughly $20 at P13.5 to the dollar.
- $20per person, per day
- VehicleP115 a day for a foreign-registered vehicle, roughly $9 (P30 for a Botswana-registered or hired car).
- $9per vehicle, per day
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $147 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
The full fee schedule for Chobe National ParkRates at Muchenje Safari Lodge
From $560 pppn (reseller rate). The lodge's own rates page shows sample itineraries without prices. Reseller chobe.com, 2026, cottage, per person sharing per night: US$560 (January to March), US$785 (April to June and November), US$965 (July to October), US$585 (December). Includes all meals, local drinks, unlimited daily safari activities, park fees and Kasane transfers.
All inclusive. The rate covers meals, drinks, activities and the transfers named below. Park fees are charged separately.
Every figure on this page is in US dollars.
Rates checked on 4 October 2026, per person per night sharing, from each property's own website or rate sheet where one is published. Desert & Delta, Belmond, &Beyond, Bush Ways, Machaba and several Kasane lodges publish none, so those figures come from two resellers, chobe.com and the Siyabona network (safari.co.za), and are marked as a reseller rate; the houseboat and Ichingo figures from chobe.com are in South African rand. SKL's campsite table is undated. Kwando Safaris, African Bush Camps and several smaller lodges publish no rates at all. Park entry is P270 per non-resident per day for a private visitor and P190 on an operator's activity, and many Kasane packages leave it out, so check what your rate includes.
Questions about Muchenje Safari Lodge
Is Muchenje inside Chobe National Park?
No. The lodge says it is within the Chobe Forest Reserve, a short drive from the park, with no fences between it and the park's western boundary.
Can you do night drives at Muchenje?
Yes. Muchenje lists a night-time safari and an early-morning game walk, weather permitting, which it can offer because it is outside the park. Night drives and walks are not allowed for visitors inside Chobe National Park.
Is Muchenje good for families?
chobe.com, a reseller, says children 8 and older are welcome. The lodge's own pages read publish no child policy.