Heritage Safari Lodge
Acholi round-hut cottages, tents and a campground · Tangi gate, Pakwach, above a hot spring on the Albert Nile · Built with Acholi community materials and artisans
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Mid-range
Outside the gate
Locally owned
The pitch here is cultural rather than purely scenic. The cottages are traditional Acholi round huts, built from materials supplied by the surrounding community and put up by local artisans, with modern bathrooms fitted inside them. The view runs east to sunrise over the hot spring, south to where the spring meets the river, and west across the Albert Nile to canoes going about their day. Bedding is arranged to order, from a single up to a family, and there is a campground for anyone carrying a tent.
Why you'd pick it
- Two-step thatched round huts in Acholi style
- Faces a hot spring running down into the Albert Nile
- Camping ground alongside for self-sufficient travellers
What's here
- Restaurant
- En-suite bathrooms
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
Read from Heritage 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, 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 lodge advertises rack-rate downloads for 2018 and 2023 but both links are dead, so no current figure exists in public. Ask info@heritagesafarilodge.com or +256 394 003958. Cottages can be hired individually or together, which is worth asking about for a family.
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.