Handpicked safari lodges & camps across Africa

Kampala

Biraj Hotel is a premier hotel in the heart of Africa's most spectacular wildlife regions. A well-appointed hotel providing modern amenities, restaurant, and leisure facilities. Ideal as a base for city stays, airport transfers, or pre/post-safari comfort.

Modern rooms with air conditioning and Wi-Fi

Bwindi Gorilla Forest

Lake Mulehe Gorilla Lodge is a premier safari lodge in the heart of Africa's most spectacular wildlife regions. A safari lodge offering comfortable rooms with en-suite facilities, restaurant, and lounge areas. Located in prime wildlife viewing areas with easy access to game drives and guided excursions.

Spacious rooms with en-suite bathrooms and private veranda

Kampala

Mestil Hotel is a premier hotel in the heart of Africa's most spectacular wildlife regions. A well-appointed hotel providing modern amenities, restaurant, and leisure facilities. Ideal as a base for city stays, airport transfers, or pre/post-safari comfort.

Modern rooms with air conditioning and Wi-Fi

Kidepo Valley National Park

Apoka Safari Lodge is a small lodge in the southwest of Kidepo Valley National Park, Uganda's most remote park, looking out over the Narus Valley. It has 10 rooms with canvas walls, thatched roofs and private verandas, each with an outdoor bathtub set among boulders. The main lodge stands on stilts, and a swimming pool has been carved out of the rock. Run by Wild Places Africa, the lodge is unfenced and offers game drives in open vehicles, guided walks, bush breakfasts and birding in a park known for lion, cheetah, elephant and large buffalo herds.

Spacious rooms with en-suite bathrooms and private veranda

Kabale

Bunyonyi Resort is a premier hotel in the heart of Africa's most spectacular wildlife regions. A well-appointed hotel providing modern amenities, restaurant, and leisure facilities. Ideal as a base for city stays, airport transfers, or pre/post-safari comfort.

Modern rooms with air conditioning and Wi-Fi

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Enganzi Game Lodge is a mid-range lodge on the Kichwamba escarpment, on a hill above the eastern side of Queen Elizabeth National Park in western Uganda. Its thatched cottages, built from local materials with roofs of dried banana leaves, look out over the park's savanna, and the same view carries through to the dining area and swimming pool. Rooms come as singles, doubles, twins and triples with en-suite bathrooms. There is a restaurant, bar and lounge, with free Wi-Fi and parking. It suits travellers wanting a comfortable night with a view between game drives in Queen Elizabeth.

Spacious rooms with en-suite bathrooms and private veranda

Kibale National Park

Primate Lodge Kibale, part of The Great Lakes Collection, sits inside Kibale National Park next to the starting point for chimpanzee tracking. Guests stay in en-suite cottages scattered through the forest, with either two double beds or one king-size bed, plus a honeymoon cottage with its own lounge and dining area. There is also a campsite with an open-air shower block. The dining room serves international and African dishes, there is a bar and lounge, massages are available, and a campfire is lit each night. Power is solar, and baboons and colobus monkeys often pass the verandas.

Spacious rooms with en-suite bathrooms and private veranda

Sipi Falls

Lacam Lodge is a premier safari lodge in the heart of Africa's most spectacular wildlife regions. A safari lodge offering comfortable rooms with en-suite facilities, restaurant, and lounge areas. Located in prime wildlife viewing areas with easy access to game drives and guided excursions.

Spacious rooms with en-suite bathrooms and private veranda

Kampala

Hotel Africana is a large hotel on Wampewo Avenue in Kololo, Kampala, operating since 1997 and widely used for conferences and events. It began as a 40-room motel and has grown to more than 100 rooms, suites and apartments. Facilities include a large pool set in landscaped gardens, a health club with gym, sauna and steam room, three restaurants and cafes, and 15 conference halls. The hotel also has its own mosque on site. It is a practical city base for travellers passing through Kampala.

Modern rooms with air conditioning and Wi-Fi

Soroti

Landmark Hotel is a premier hotel in the heart of Africa's most spectacular wildlife regions. A well-appointed hotel providing modern amenities, restaurant, and leisure facilities. Ideal as a base for city stays, airport transfers, or pre/post-safari comfort.

Modern rooms with air conditioning and Wi-Fi

Kampala

Lake Victoria Serena Golf Resort and Spa is a lakeshore resort at Lweza-Kigo, off the Entebbe Road, about 20 minutes from both central Kampala and Entebbe International Airport. Opened in 2009 and run by Serena Hotels, it is built around an 18-hole championship golf course that finishes on an island green. Accommodation ranges from deluxe rooms and suites to three-bedroom apartments and four-bedroom penthouses. The Maisha Spa has a 25-metre pool, gym, sauna and steam room, and a private marina runs lake cruises and trips to Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary.

Modern rooms with air conditioning and Wi-Fi

Entebbe

The Boma is a small hotel in a 1940s colonial house on Gowers Road, in a leafy part of Entebbe a few minutes' drive from Entebbe International Airport. Its single, double, twin and triple rooms keep the character of the old house, with fly-screened windows and en-suite bathrooms. The house sits in large tropical gardens with plenty of birdlife and a swimming pool for guests. A restaurant serves meals on site, and airport transfers are part of the stay. It is a quiet base for a first or last night in Uganda.

Modern rooms with air conditioning and Wi-Fi

Entebbe

Airport Guesthouse is a small guesthouse on Mugula Road in Entebbe, run by Nature Lodges Uganda and a short drive from Entebbe International Airport. En-suite single, double and triple rooms with ceiling fans and mosquito nets look onto a tropical garden, and a separate Family House suits larger groups. A colonial-style main building holds the bar and restaurant, and dinner is often served outdoors in the garden. An airport transfer is included and early breakfasts are available for dawn flights. It is set up for a first or last night in Uganda.

Spacious rooms with en-suite bathrooms and private veranda

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Buhoma Lodge is a small lodge run by Uganda Exclusive Camps inside Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, on the access road to the park headquarters in the Buhoma sector. It is one of only two lodges inside the park and a few minutes' walk from the briefing point where gorilla treks begin. Guests stay in 10 chalets built from locally sourced materials, each with a private veranda and large windows facing the forest canopy. The raised central area holds the lounge, bar and dining room, with fireplaces for cool evenings. The lodge lends trekking gear, cleans boots and offers a massage after the trek.

Spacious rooms with en-suite bathrooms and private veranda

Bwindi Gorilla Forest

Clouds Mountain Gorilla Lodge sits on the Nteko Ridge in the Nkuringo area of southern Bwindi, at about 2,000 metres, with views to the Virunga volcanoes. It has eight stone cottages, six one-bedroom and two family units, each with a wood-burning fireplace, and guests are looked after by butlers. The main lodge has fireplaces, a bar and dining room, a massage hut overlooking the forest and an organic garden. The Nkuringo gorilla trailhead is within walking distance, and the Rushaga sector is about 30 to 40 minutes' drive. The lodge was built as a partnership with the Nkuringo community.

Spacious rooms with en-suite bathrooms and private veranda

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Silverback Lodge is a Marasa Africa property in the Buhoma sector of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, about five minutes' walk from the park. It has 12 rooms, which the lodge calls Nests, each with a private patio facing the forest and a sunken tub that can be used hot or cold. Design leans on natural materials and local craftsmanship. A restaurant and bar serve meals, and the Wellnest spa offers treatments after a trek. Besides gorilla trekking, the lodge arranges Batwa visits, coffee roasting, birding and community walks.

Spacious rooms with en-suite bathrooms and private veranda

Soroti

Soroti Hotel is a premier hotel in the heart of Africa's most spectacular wildlife regions. A well-appointed hotel providing modern amenities, restaurant, and leisure facilities. Ideal as a base for city stays, airport transfers, or pre/post-safari comfort.

Modern rooms with air conditioning and Wi-Fi

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Mahogany Springs is a lodge in the Buhoma sector of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, set above the Munyanga River and a couple of minutes' drive or a short walk from the park entrance. It has 14 suites: 12 Superior Deluxe and 2 Premium Deluxe, each with an en-suite bathroom, a private terrace and views across the forested valley. Gardens surround the main building, which holds the restaurant, bar and lounge, and there is a spa for after the trek. The lodge arranges gorilla trekking and visits to Batwa communities.

Spacious rooms with en-suite bathrooms and private veranda