Chobe Safari Lodge
Lodge and tented rooms · North bank at the eastern end of the park, above the rapids near Karuma · Marasa Africa, Madhvani Group
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High-end
Inside the park
Safari company
Marasa's second property sits at the opposite end of the park from Paraa, on the north bank where the Victoria Nile still tumbles over rock on its way down from Karuma. The noise of the rapids is the point, and so is the fishing. The trade-off is distance: the giraffe country on the Buligi peninsula is a long morning's drive west, so people usually pair Chobe with the drive up to Gulu or Kidepo rather than treat it as a game-viewing base.
Why you'd pick it
- Built over fast water rather than the flat stretch below the falls
- Its own all-weather airstrip is two kilometres away
- The best base in the park for Nile perch fishing
What's here
- Swimming pool
- Spa or massage
Arranged from the lodge:
- Guided walks
- Fishing
Read from Chobe Safari 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. 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, once for the trip
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $281 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
UWA's tariff charges vehicles per 24 hours, except for concessionaire visitor vehicles, who pay once per trip. Staying at a lodge inside the park puts you in that second group, so the vehicle is counted once above rather than three times.
The full fee schedule for Murchison Falls National ParkRates
On request. No published rates, same enquiry-only policy as Paraa. Booking runs through reservations@marasa.net. The unit counts are Marasa's own, from its fact sheet.
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.