Paraa Safari Lodge
Riverside lodge · North bank at Paraa, on the bluff above the crossing · Marasa Africa, Madhvani Group
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High-end
Inside the park
Safari company
The grande dame of Murchison, opened in 1954 on the high ground above the crossing and still the busiest address inside the park. Rooms feel like a good hotel rather than a bush camp, and scale is what you are buying: two restaurants, a pool cut into the slope over the river, and a position that puts the Buligi game tracks and the boat jetty a few minutes apart. It is run by Marasa Africa, the hotel arm of the Ugandan Madhvani group.
Why you'd pick it
- Trading since 1954, which makes it part of the park's own history
- The largest bed count anywhere inside the boundary
- Pool terrace directly above the Nile at Paraa
What's here
- Swimming pool
- Restaurant
Arranged from the lodge:
- Boat trips
- Guided walks
- Birding
- Fishing
- Chimpanzee treks
Read from Paraa 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. Marasa publishes no rate card for either of its Murchison lodges. Every rates button on the site resolves to an enquiry form, so ask reservations@marasa.net or the lodge on +256 200 414100. Room and capacity figures below come from the operator's own fact sheet and accommodation pages.
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.