Maun is the fifth largest town in Botswana. It is an eclectic mix of modern buildings and native huts. Maun is the "tourism capital" of Botswana and the administrative centre of Ngamiland district. It is also the headquarters of numerous safari and air-charter operations who run trips into the world-famous Okavango Delta. Image File history File links BW-Maun. ... North-West is one of the districts of Botswana. ... Elephants in the Okavango Delta seen from the dubious safety of a makoro (small boat). ...

Although officially still a village, Maun has developed rapidly from a rural frontier town and has spread along the Thamalakane River. It now has shopping centres, hotels and lodges as well as car hire, although it retains a rural atmosphere and local tribesmen continue to bring their cattle to Maun to sell. The community is distributed along the wide banks of the Thamalakane River where red lechwe can still be seen grazing next to local donkeys, goats and cattle. The Thamalakane River is a river that actually isnt a river as such. ... Binomial name Kobus leche Gray, 1850 A female Lechwe flying over a patch of clear water early in the morning in Okavango Delta The Lechwe, or Southern Lechwe, (Kobus leche) is an antelope found in Okavango Delta of Botswana, the Kafue Flats and Bengwelu Swamps of Zambia, and the very...

Maun is 30km from Toteng. Toteng is a village in the north east of Botswana, North East region located at 20,22S 22,56E. The town is reportedly the location of the oldest directly dated evidence of cattle in southern Africa [1]. Nearby towns are Monedi, Demarara, and Motlhatlokho in the west, Rammu...

History

Since Maun's founding in 1915 as the tribal capital of the Batawana people, it has had a reputation as a hard-living 'Wild West' town helping the local cattle ranching and hunting operations. However, with the growth of the tourism industry and the completion of the tar road from Nata in the early 1990s, Maun has developed swiftly, losing much of its old town character. It is now home to over 30,000 people. Year 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday[1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

Maun, Botswana, from the air 2007

Maun is today a thriving tourist town, infamous for its infestation of donkeys and to a lesser extent goats. These animals can be seen standing around town as the local farmers arrive in the innumerable taxis to sell their wares on the curbside. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 144 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Maun, Botswana, viewed from a Cessna aircraft, early 2007 illustrating the typical village structure and traditional architectural styles. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 144 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Maun, Botswana, viewed from a Cessna aircraft, early 2007 illustrating the typical village structure and traditional architectural styles. ...

With the influx of tourism dollars, the typical traditional rondavels have been replaced by square, cinderblock homes roofed with tin and occasionally tiles. Mobile phone service in Maun is excellent out to about 20 to 25km, depending on weather.

There are three major chain supermarkets, Shoprite, Spar, and Score and few leading retail auto parts store such as Motor Parts Sales and Services owned by Pakistan originated Motswana.It is located just at the hospital junction, a place now commonly known between people of Maun as "Muslim" along the Tsheko-Tsheko Road, which takes one to the north-Western part of Botswana bordering Namibia.

Maun is also becoming a regional transshipment hub for materials and tradespeople who service both the local camps and safari centres and the burgeoning mineral exploration camps in northwestern Botswana. There are a wide variety of services in stores as well as many local entrepreneurs with welding ventures operated from the back of a cart. Transshipment is the shipment of goods to an intermediate destination, and then from there to yet another destination. ...

Tourists fly into the Maun International Airport, opposite the Cafe Bon Arrive. They stay at the local lodges including Maun Lodge (pictured), Rileys Hotel, the Crocodile Camp Lodge or other safari lodges in the immediate vicinity. Often, these tourists take the road to Nata, or otherwise fly to several tourist camps in the Okavango Delta. Maun Airport is an airport in Maun, Botswana (IATA: MUB, ICAO: FBMN). ... Elephants in the Okavango Delta seen from the dubious safety of a makoro (small boat). ...

Maun, like most areas in southern Africa, has a protracted aviation history. See Aviation history of Maun The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ...

Etymology

The name Maun is derived from the San word 'maung', which translates 'the place of short reeds'. The village started in 1915 as the capital for the Tawana people. The capital was transferred from Toteng after victory over Ndebele King Lobengula. |group = Bushmen |image = |poptime = 82,000 |popplace = Botswana (55,000), Namibia (27,000) |rels = San Religion |langs = various Khoisan languages |related = Khoikhoi, Xhosa, Zulu, Griqua }} The Bushmen, San, Basarwa, ǃKung or Khwe are indigenous people of the Kalahari Desert, which spans areas of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Angola. ... Tawana Brawley at a press conference in 1987 The Tawana Brawley rape case involves Tawana Brawley, an African American woman, who in 1987 at age 15 received national media attention in the US for falsely accusing six white men, some of them police officers, in the village of Wappingers Falls... Toteng is a village in the north east of Botswana, North East region located at 20,22S 22,56E. The town is reportedly the location of the oldest directly dated evidence of cattle in southern Africa [1]. Nearby towns are Monedi, Demarara, and Motlhatlokho in the west, Rammu... This article relates to the Ndebele people of Zimbabwe. ... Lobengula (d. ...

External links

• The Ngami Times, Maun's weekly newspaper

Coordinates: 19°59′S, 23°25′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...