Boomu Women's Group Bandas
Community bandas and a campsite · Beside the Masindi road near Kichumbanyobo gate · Boomu Women's Group
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Budget
Outside the gate
Community-owned
A farming cooperative that turned itself into a guesthouse, and the most direct way to put your money into a household beside the gate rather than into a company. The bandas are simple thatch, the gardens are busy with weaver birds, and the women who own the place also do the cooking. It sits on the Masindi approach close to the Kichumbanyobo entrance, which puts both the savanna and the Kaniyo Pabidi chimpanzees within easy reach of breakfast.
Why you'd pick it
- Owned and run by a village women's cooperative
- Grass-thatched bandas in a garden of weavers and butterflies
- Meals cooked and served by the members themselves
What's here
- Bar
- Campsite
Arranged from the lodge:
- Guided walks
- Birding
- Community visits
Read from Boomu Women's Group Bandas'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. Murchison Falls National Park charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entryCharged per 24 hours, and this is the only park in Uganda's top A+ band.
- $45per person, per day
- VehicleA Ugandan-registered 4x4, the usual hire car, at UGX 40,000 including Murchison's own surcharge; bring a foreign-registered one and it is $160.
- $11per vehicle, per day
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $303 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
The full fee schedule for Murchison Falls National ParkRates
On request. The group publishes nothing itself. Uganda's National Forestry Authority names it as one of only two accommodation options at the Kaniyo Pabidi site in its 2025 ecotourism brochure, which is the strongest confirmation we found that it is still operating. Arrange through the Kaniyo Pabidi site office or on arrival.
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 were read in July 2026 from each property's own website, rate-card PDF or published government tariff. A lodge that publishes nothing says On request, and any figure that came from somewhere other than the property is labelled. Park fees are extra almost everywhere: $45 per person per 24 hours for foreign non-residents, plus a vehicle fee that carries a surcharge unique to Murchison. Deliberately left out, so you know why you cannot find them here. Baker's Lodge is closed, with a flood notice still standing on its operator's site, and Murchison Bush Camp has taken its place in that portfolio. Budongo Eco Lodge is closed too, confirmed by Great Lakes Safaris, which now runs Pabidi Lodge in the same forest. Geo Lodges no longer has any Murchison property despite older guides saying otherwise. Yebo Safari Camp near Mubako gate, Kabalega Wilderness Lodge and Shoebill Camp Site appear across the directories but have no website of their own that we could reach, so we cannot confirm their rates, their capacity or that they are still trading. Amuka Safari Lodge is filed under Murchison by many sites and is not here, because it sits at Nakasongola on the Kampala road roughly two hours short of the park. Aerolink's 2026 route network also names Anyundwe House and Papa's Camp at the Bugungu airstrip, which is decent evidence that both exist, but neither publishes anything we were able to check.