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.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Owned and run by a village women's cooperative
- Money goes straight to the household, not a company
- Meals cooked and served by the women who own it
- Garden full of weaver birds and butterflies
- Savanna and the Kaniyo Pabidi chimps both within easy reach
Cons
- No published rates; arrange through the site office or on arrival
- No child policy published anywhere we could find
- Simple grass-thatch bandas, not an en-suite lodge
- No direct phone or email listed for the bandas
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.
A ticket runs 24 hours from the hour you drive in, not until midnight. Leave before that same hour on your last day and three nights costs exactly three days of entry; linger past it and UWA counts another full day.
The full fee schedule for Murchison Falls National ParkRates at Boomu Women's Group Bandas
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 Anyadwe House and Papa's Camp at the Bugungu airstrip. Anyadwe House turns out to publish its own site, a small high-end guesthouse on the south bank of the Nile beside the park, spotted thanks to a reader correction; Papa's Camp still publishes nothing we were able to check.
Questions about Boomu Women's Group Bandas
Is Boomu Women's Group Bandas good for families?
No child policy is published anywhere we could find, so ask when you arrange your stay. The bandas are simple grass-thatch, run by the women's cooperative who also do the cooking, and the site puts both the savanna and the Kaniyo Pabidi chimpanzees within easy reach of breakfast.
How do you book Boomu Women's Group Bandas?
The group publishes nothing itself and gives no direct phone or email for the bandas, so arrange a stay through the Kaniyo Pabidi site office or on arrival. Uganda's National Forestry Authority lists Boomu as one of only two accommodation options at Kaniyo Pabidi in its 2025 ecotourism brochure, the strongest confirmation we found that it still operates.
What is Boomu Women's Group Bandas?
A farming cooperative that turned itself into a guesthouse beside the Masindi road near Kichumbanyobo gate. The bandas are grass-thatch in a garden busy with weaver birds and butterflies, and the women who own the place also cook and serve the meals, which is the most direct way to put your money into a household here rather than a company.
What does it cost to stay at Boomu Women's Group Bandas?
No rates are published by the group itself. Arrange a stay, and get current pricing, through the Kaniyo Pabidi site office or on arrival, since there is no listed phone or email for the bandas directly.