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About Campesa
One map of the campsites worth knowing across Southern and East Africa, with the national parks, park gates, fuel, food, water, top sights, picnic spots and 4x4 rental depots you plan a trip around. Built for self-drive overlanders, and now covering Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia, with more countries on the way.
What you can do
- Find campsites by type, price and facilities, and read what each one is like, what it costs and how to book it.
- See national parks and reserves with their fees, hours and best seasons, and the roads and 4x4 tracks between them.
- Get directions with drive times that allow for sand, gravel and park speed limits, through as many stops as you like.
- Plan a trip night by night, add the gates, fuel stops and sights along the way, track each booking, and share the trip with the people you travel with.
- Save countries for offline use, so the map, your saved campsites and your trips work without signal.
How the listings come together
Listings start from OpenStreetMap and are filled in from each campsite's own website, park authority pages and other published sources, with a note of where each fact came from and when. Where something isn't confirmed, we say so rather than guess.
We do our best to make every listing as accurate as possible. That being said, due to the number of listings and the lack of information in some cases, accuracy can't be guaranteed. Please check anything critical to your trip with the campsite or park, and ask campsites to update their listing where something is missing or out of date.
Campsite operators can claim their listing to keep facilities, sites, prices and contact details up to date, or add a campsite that isn't on the map yet. Travellers can suggest an edit on any campsite.
The campfire score
Campsites are scored from one to five campfires. Facilities, value, and access and supplies are worked out from our own data; the setting and the general feel of public reviews are our judgement, written in our own words. It's Campesa's opinion, not an average of other sites' ratings.
Distances, drive times and prices
Directions and trip drive times follow the roads and tracks on our map and give a range that allows for the surface, but they exclude stops and can't know about today's conditions. The distances to the nearest fuel, food, water and gates on a campsite are straight-line, so allow more. Prices are kept in the currency the campsite charges; converted prices are approximate.
Credits
- Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
- Map tiles by OpenFreeMap, using the OpenMapTiles schema.
- Photos are linked from each campsite's own website, or from Wikimedia Commons under the licence shown with each one.
- Town search by Photon (komoot).
- Exchange rates by Exchange Rate API.
- Icons by Lucide.
Before you go
Things change out here: gates close, fuel runs dry, roads wash away. Check with the campsite or park before you travel, and carry enough fuel and water for the unexpected.
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