Mangwe Lodge
Lodge · In the Matobo hills; exact site not published · Shashani (family business)
A drawing, because nobody has sent us a photograph of Mangwe Lodge yet. Send five and this page changes the same week.
Budget
Boundary unconfirmed
Owner/family-run
Shashani's sister lodge, listed on the same website with the same booking contacts. The site shows a bar, lounge and dining area and says horse riding is available at both lodges, but gives no capacity, rates or exact location, so we cannot say how it sits against the park boundary.
Why you'd pick it
- Sister lodge to Shashani
- Horse riding shared with Shashani
- Bar, lounge and dining
What's here
- Bar
Read from Mangwe 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. 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
Rate on request. No rates published. Shashani's site, which carries Mangwe as its sister lodge, describes it only as affordable.
What the rate covers is not confirmed. We do not know yet whether meals, drinks and activities are included, so read this as the bed only.
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.