Big Cave Campsite and huts
Campsite and Ndebele-style huts · About 2 km from the park boundary, own gate · Big Cave (family-owned)
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Budget
Outside the gate
Owner/family-run
Big Cave's campsite, about 2 km from the park boundary: pitches with their own 220-volt point and solar backup, free wifi, braai with firewood, a bar and a laundry area, plus five simple huts on shared ablutions. You pay the park fee only on the days you drive into the park.
Why you'd pick it
- Power and water at every pitch
- No park fee to reach it
- Bar and laundry on site
What's here
- Wi-Fi
- Bar
- Campsite
- Solar or 24h power
- Self-catering
- Laundry
Read from Big Cave Campsite and huts'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. Matobo National Park charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entryThe ZimParks rate if you drive in from outside.
- $18per person, per day
- VehicleForeign-registered car, $10 a day visiting and $3 staying inside; a Zimbabwe-registered hire car pays $5 and $2.
- $10per vehicle, per day
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $138 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
World's View and the painted caves need a separate NMMZ ticket, $10 per non-resident adult, which is not included in these sums.
The full fee schedule for Matobo National ParkRates
From $18 per person camping. 2026 rates from the lodge's own site: camping $18 per person per night, half price for under-12s; huts $45 per hut per night, sleeping two. The site states that no park fee is needed to reach the campsite.
Self-catering. You cook. Nothing else is included unless the entry says so.
Every figure on this page is in US dollars.
Rates checked in September 2026. Where a lodge publishes its own rate we use it, with its date; for Amalinda, Big Cave and Shashani, which do not print rates on their own sites, the figure comes from a named reseller or agent and says so. The price filter and sort use per-person rates only; lodges that price per room or per unit show their rate in the text but carry no sortable figure. ZimParks entry is extra almost everywhere: $18 per international adult per day driving in, $10 sleeping inside, and the NMMZ ticket for World's View and the caves is $10 on top.