UWA Dormitory and Campsites, Paraa
Dormitory beds and campsites · North Paraa, plus camping at the Top of the Falls and designated bush sites · Uganda Wildlife Authority
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Budget
Inside the park
Park-run (UWA)
UWA's own beds, whose existence the authority's public FAQ page oddly denies while its tariff and its park brochure both list them in detail. What is actually there is a dormitory-style students' centre with sixty beds at North Paraa, a campsite next to it, and designated camping elsewhere in the park including at the falls themselves. Everything is self-catering, none of it is comfortable, and all of it must be booked ahead.
Why you'd pick it
- Sixty beds in a dormitory built for school parties
- Camping is permitted at the Top of the Falls
- The cheapest roof in the park after Red Chilli
What's here
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
- Boat trips
- Birding
Read from UWA Dormitory and Campsites, Paraa'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
From UGX 25,000 per adult. Straight from the UWA tariff: dormitory UGX 25,000 for adults, UGX 10,000 for children and UGX 5,000 for a student travelling in a group. Camping is $40 per person at a wilderness site, $30 at a private site booked in advance and UGX 40,000 at a public site with a latrine, water and a shelter. The public rate is printed only in shillings, so what a foreign visitor actually pays there is genuinely unclear in the document. Prior booking is required on 0706 780 008.
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.