A hand-picked selection of lodges and camps. Click through their name to visit their own website directly.
The River Station
On a bluff above the Kazinga Channel in Kyambura Wildlife Reserve, which adjoins Queen Elizabeth and holds only two camps — this one and its sister, Honey Bear. Opened in 2024. Ten en-suite rooms, each with a private plunge pool, a main lodge in muted watery colours, and a massage room looking onto a waterhole. Elephants walk past the breakfast tables. The lodge runs Uganda’s only sailing dhow, which takes guests out onto the channel past hippo and crocodile, and chimpanzee tracking goes down into the Kyambura Gorge — the “lost chimps” of a forest sunk below the surrounding plain.
Honey Bear Bush Camp
Five tents on the southern bank of the Kazinga Channel, opened in late 2023 — the only other camp in Kyambura Wildlife Reserve besides its sister, The River Station. Each tent faces the water, close enough to wake to hippo and to elephants crossing at first light. A single mess tent holds the dining area and sitting room, and there is nothing else, which is the point. Chimpanzee tracking descends into the Kyambura Gorge, and boat cruises and game drives run on the channel and the crater lakes above it.
