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Wooden viewing deck with a table decked with alcoholic beverages by outdoor seating overlooking a natural waterhole in Zimbabwe.

Kanga Expeditions

Mana Pools National Park | Zimbabwe
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Inland Mana Pools Camp on a Permanent Pan

Kanga Camp sits beside Kanga Pan, a reliable dry-season water source, offering exceptional “armchair safari” game viewing from camp. This intimate camp has just six Meru-style tents and opens from April 1 to November 30. Guided walks, morning and afternoon drives and night spotlighting on the pan take place in its private concession.

“Armchair safari” is clichéd. Kanga is the paradigm. If it needs water, it will visit Kanga Pan. Elephants, wild dogs, leopards, and a wide variety of other species, including nocturnal creatures under the spotlight. Enjoy the customary superlative service.

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Price Per Person Sharing From:

USD 708 - 1,298
Rating | Luxury
Canvas guest suite featuring a draped four-poster bed and writing desk.

Highlights & What to Expect

  • Prime viewpoint over Kanga Pan: wildlife congregates through the dry season.
  • Six Meru-style tents, including a family tent and a honeymoon tent.
  • Guided walks for guests 16 and over, daytime drives and night spotlighting on the pan.
  • Relax at the splash pool and on the deck between activities.
  • A seasonal photographic hide gives a low angle on the pan.
  • Star-filled skies and unforgettable bush ambience after dark.
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Overview of Kanga Expeditions

Deep in the Mana Pools wilderness, Kanga feels wonderfully cut off from everything: no fences, no crowds, just bush stretching to the horizon.

Location & Setting

Built on elevated platforms in a secluded interior section of Mana Pools, the camp overlooks Kanga Pan, the area’s key permanent water source, especially productive in the dry months. Locally sourced timber helps blend the structures into the woodland and keeps the camp’s footprint light.

Kanga Pan is the only permanent water within about 20 km, which explains the steady procession to the edge of camp as the dry season wears on. Charter flights from Harare or Victoria Falls use Dandawa Airstrip, the nearest landing strip.

Rooms

Tented suites are set on wooden decks with views toward the pan. Each has an en-suite outdoor bathroom with a flush toilet, hot shower and basin, a cozy seating area, and a shaded veranda. Simple, stylish décor and quality linens complete the classic bush-camp feel.

The family tent has a wraparound terrace, and the honeymoon tent a rolltop bath on a secluded deck. Children over 12 are welcome, while the walks have a minimum age of 16. Power comes from solar panels, with a generator as backup.

Facilities

Central areas include an upper-deck lounge, a dining area, a campfire and a splash pool for hot afternoons. A raised platform gives relaxed “armchair” game viewing. Activities include morning and afternoon drives, guided walks and spotlighting at the pan after dark.

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Elephants congregating at a muddy pan seen from an elevated timber platform.
Two women in patterned robes resting their feet in a plunge pool.
Open-air clawfoot bathtub lit by candle lanterns under a large tree.
Safari vehicle stopped beside tall lala palms on open savanna plains.
Smiling waiter carrying a chilled beverage on a round serving tray.
Guest aiming a camera lens at a solitary elephant.
Morning coffee table overlooking baboons walking across dry river flats.
Shaded daybed with patterned cushions, binoculars, and reading material.

Amenities

  • Accommodations

    6

  • Bar & Lounge

  • Restaurant

  • Swimming Pool

  • Laundry Service

  • Boma / Fire Pit

  • Airstrip / Helipad

  • Mosquito Net

  • Outdoor Shower

  • Private Deck

  • Sustainable

Activities

  • Game Drives

  • Guided Bush Walks

  • Birdwatching

  • Stargazing

  • Wilderness Dining

Other Area Properties

Kanga is the inland choice in Mana Pools. Three of the camps below sit on the Zambezi itself, two in the park and one opposite on the Zambian bank, while Bumi Hills is a short flight upstream on Lake Kariba.

Tented suite and deck beside the Zambezi at Nyamatusi Camp.

Nyamatusi Camp

Down on the river in the eastern part of the park, with canoe trips among the channels and a plunge pool on every deck.

Tented suite on the Zambezi riverbank at Nyamatusi Mahogany.

Nyamatusi Mahogany

An African Bush Camps riverside camp that takes children of every age; Kanga takes children over 12.

Riverside tented suite at Royal Zambezi Lodge.

Royal Zambezi Lodge

Look back across the Zambezi to Mana Pools from the Zambian bank, with canoeing and angling from the lodge.

Lodge deck above Lake Kariba at Bumi Hills Safari Lodge.

Bumi Hills Safari Lodge

A ridge-top lodge above Lake Kariba, about 30 minutes by light aircraft from Mana Pools.

Last Updated: November 6, 2026 Curated By: Riaan Viljoen