Twiga Safari Lodge
Lodge, cottages and tents · Southern bank of the Nile, on the park's outskirts · Twiga Safari Lodge
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Mid-range
Outside the gate
Locally owned
A Ugandan-run lodge on the southern bank at the park's edge, with cottages and tents facing the water. Guests consistently mention hippos audible from bed and a kitchen better than the price suggests. Handle it with a little care all the same: the website has been frozen since 2022 and publishes no rate, no room count and no owner, so treat the position as the only firm fact and telephone for everything else.
Why you'd pick it
- River frontage on the south bank with hippos below the terrace
- Monkeys and birds move freely through the grounds
- Everything except the location needs confirming by telephone
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. Nothing is published: no rates, no room counts and no operating company. The site carries a 2022 copyright and has not been touched since. We list the lodge because Aerolink still routes clients to it from the Bugungu airstrip in its 2026 network, which is reasonable evidence it trades. Ask info@twigasafarilodge.com. A 20 per cent deposit confirms a booking and children of three to twelve pay half.
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.