The eco-friendly lodge is situated 500m from the main road, between Masindi and Paraa near the turn-off to the Top of the Falls. Sambiya River Lodge has solar water heaters, which provide hot water in the showers.

The lodge has twenty thatched cottages and the Bandas. The cottages are equipped with rechargeable emergency lights and they have 26 self-contained bedrooms, each having its own private bathroom facilities as well as a verandah.

The Bandas are ten thatched, but the bathroom facilities are shared. The swimming pool is at the Sambiya River lodge and serve International cuisines bar, restaurant and guided walks, through the bird-rich riverine forest.

Paara Safari lodge is situated on the north bank of the Nile. It consists of large luxurious and self contained rooms with mosquito nets and private balcony that face the river. The bath or showers are spacious and they also cater for the disabled people in that they do have 2 rooms for them.

They do prepare International cuisines and the daily choice for vegetarians, but besides that, they have good snacks for casual, which are not expensive. They also have a curvaceous swimming pool, which is well maintained and cleaned on a daily basis,
giving you an opportunity to relax along day.

Access to Paara Safari Lodge
By Road Transport
A 3 hour drive from Kampala to Masindi, 217 km on tarmac and 40 km on high grade murram. The Masindi-Paraa road through Kichumbanyobo gate is the direct road to Paraa Rest Camp. All the roads in Murchison Falls National Park have been recently upgraded as have the park access roads. The scenic approach from Masindi to the park is to use the escarpment road along Lake Edward.

By Air Travel
Bugungu airfield is located only a few kilometers from the park headquarters at Paraa on the Southern side of the River Nile to cater for safari tourists visiting the park and staying at Nile Safari Camp, the Red Chili Rest Camp and Sambiya River Lodge. It is the second major field in the park after Pakuba airfield, which is partly tarmacked located on the North bank providing access to Paraa Lodge.

It’s a luxury-tented lodge with wooden chalets and luxury tents personalized with a compelling bush character. Nile Safari Lodge has a class of its own because of its uniqueness, you are brought closer to nature. It has air-conditioning, giving you an opportunity to experience this ultimate bush adventure and its situated in a short distance west of the park boundary on the Southern bank of the Nile.

Nile Safari Lodge facilities include; an ambient bar/lounge, a restaurant and a superb extended deck. The crystal clear swimming pool offers the best reprieve from the hot equatorial sun after a day of activities in the National park and surrounding areas.

The lodge has ten self-contained rooms including 5 wooden chalets and 5 luxury tents. The en suite toilet and shower plus a private veranda over looking the Nile. The balcony of each room gives you an opportunity to enjoy an early morning tea and coffee served by your personal waiter.
For your Murchison falls tour visit the Mountain gorilla and chimpanzee primates Safari Company

Accommodation Facilities
Murchison falls has a variety of accommodation facilities ranging from luxury safari lodges to basic campsites. Campsites are available at Top of the Falls, Rabongo Forest and Paraa. Toilets or pit latrines/showers or bathing shelters are provided at these sites.

Luxury Safari Lodges
Nile Safari Lodge
Paraa Safari Lodge

Medium Accommodation
Sambiya River Lodge

Budget and Camping Accommodation
Red Chilli Rest Camp

Accommodation en-route to the park
Karuma Falls Campsite
Busingiro Ecotourism site
Lake Albert View Tourist Campsite
Masindi Hotel
Lake Albert View Tourist Campsite
Karuma Falls Campsite

This immensely stunning camp is set in wooded grounds inside the park entrance and is ru by the local community who clean and look after it. It s locally built hut with the local materials that provide communal accommodation. There are self-and non-self contained rooms. The facility also provides budding, a restaurant, which serves basic but freshly prepared food and a bar.

Its situated opposite the community campsite and privately owned and operated by a local business lady. Its considerably cheap, but the grounds are less attractive.

Bwindi lodge over looks the primeval Bwindi Forest and it is the perfect place to experience the magic of this fabled impenetrable forest. The tented camp that was there previously has been replaced by a newly built stunning eco-lodge comprising eight bandas.

The eco-lodge is comfortable with 8 bandas and stunning views overlooking the primeval forest. Gorillas, chimpanzees and birds can often be heard screeching near the river below whilst you sit back and relax on the open veranda after a hard days trekking through the Impenetrable Forest.

This classic tented camp joins a small parch of forest with bird life. It is situated high up on
a hillside off the main route to the park headquarters.

The camp's accommodation is eight simple safari tents with proper beds. Each tent on a private deck with spectacular view caters for two persons. They all have solar lighting, an eco-friendly toilet and a private dressing area.

Their meals are generally of very high standard and international cuisines are catered for with excellent dining facilities, kitchens and Well stocked bars.

It is situated on a hillside, giving you an opportunity to view the forest where the Mountain gorillas reside. This fabulous tented camp is within walking distance of the point where visitors meet to start gorilla trekking. And consists of 8 self-contained double rooms, each with two self-contained queen sized beds, a private wooden deck and bathroom facilities. The lodge also has a nice spacious dining and bar area with power for lighting and recharging of video equipment.

Gorilla Forest Camp has been designed to blend seamlessly into this most atmospheric of environments, carefully appointed towards the misty valleys and looming, forest-clad mountains that protect this fragile eco-system. Each tent has a spacious wooden veranda where guests can relax, enjoy a private meal and absorb the exotic mystery of the surrounding rainforest that provided the inspiration of Disney’s "The Jungle" Book. The Gorilla Forest Camp offers a bar and dining cottage overlooking the rain forest, as well as a raised natural platform for open air dining.

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is an enduring pocket of a huge primeval forest that once stretched from the Virunga Volcanoes in the South to the Rwenzori Mountains in the North. The fertile 331 square kilometers of the park contain 113 species of mammals (including a herd of the rare forest elephant), 200 species of butterfly, over 360 species of birds and a prodigious 324 tree varieties (10 of which are endemic to the park). In addition to this incredible diversity, Bwindi is home to seven species of primates, attracting the attention of international conservation efforts, of which the most endangered is that elusive giant of Africa-- the Mountain Gorilla. Only 600 of these magnificent animals remain worldwide, and Bwindi is home to just over half of them.