Bwana Tembo Safari Camp
Cottages and raised safari tents · North of the park, about 10 km from Tangi gate · The Dal Lago family
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Mid-range
Outside the gate
Owner/family-run
The Dal Lagos have lived in Uganda since 1986 and cook accordingly, which after a long day on the Buligi tracks turns out to be exactly what you want. The camp is deliberately small, six cottages and four tents on platforms, and it has been quietly improving: mains electricity and a rebuilt pool arrived in 2024, and the family also runs fly camping inside the park with real beds and a barbecue. Prices are among the lowest of any comfortable option here.
Why you'd pick it
- An Italian kitchen at the edge of the Ugandan bush
- Ten units in total, so it never feels busy
- Mains power and a rebuilt pool since 2024
What's here
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
- Boat trips
Read from Bwana Tembo Safari Camp'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
From $49 pppn. Bed and breakfast from $49 per person, half board $74, and a cruise package at $159 covering all meals, wine and a boat trip. The camp's current site routes bookings through a widget rather than printing a card, so reconfirm at info@bwanatembo.com or +256 772 957 850.
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.