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Semliki Lodge

Semliki Lodge is located in the Semliki Wildlife Reserve in Western Uganda. This classic tented lodge is a great base from which to explore the reserve as well as going chimp trekking through the forest, and visiting Lake Albert.

Semliki Wildlife Reserve, Kibale Forest and Semliki Wildlife Reserve, Uganda
Semliki Lodge
  • Take a boat trip on Lake Albert and try and spot the elusive Shoebill stork

  • Go chimp trekking in the forest with the researchers

  • Relax by the large swimming pool

  • Semliki Wildlife Reserve contains over 100 species of bird found nowhere else in the world


Semliki Lodge is situated within the Semliki Valley Wildlife Reserve, offering a truly personal wilderness experience, as it is the only accommodation within over 500 square km. The aim of the lodge is to create a comfortable, traditional accommodation in the amazing surroundings of the reserve. Due to the remoteness of the lodge and the vastness of the reserve guests feel as if they have the whole place to themselves.

Semliki Lodge has eight huge canvas tents with thatched roofs, allowing a true African experience where you are able to take in the sights around you during the day and the sounds during the evenings. All the tents have en suite bathrooms with running water and private providing amazing panoramic views of the area and wildlife. The tents aim to offer the utmost comforts including muslin draped four poster beds, Persian carpets and many other special touches. The lodge itself and the tents are all built out of local materials, which keeps the traditional rustic mood without losing that all-important comfort. The food offered at the lodge has been known as the 'Best food in Uganda', and continuing with the lodge's aim to maintain traditional charm, all the food is home made, from the muffins served in the mornings to the relishes and chutneys served during the day.

In conjunction with Indiana University, the lodge is running a chimpanzee research project in Semliki. The habitat is ideal to collect data which will help to further understand the evolution of man, particularly 'bipedalism' (walking on two feet).

The research is in the early stages, but guests at Semliki Lodge are able to accompany the resident researchers into the forest to assist with the habituation and research of these fascinating creatures.

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Spending a morning sitting with a troop of chimps after trekking through the forest was incredibly rewarding and they are so human it was almost alarming!

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Location

Semliki Wildlife Reserve, Kibale Forest and Semliki Wildlife Reserve, Uganda

Semliki Lodge is situated in the Semliki Valley Wildlife Reserve (formerly called Toro Game Reserve), deep in the heart of Uganda’s Western Rift Valley. Boasting both a National Park and a Game Reserve, much of the valley is untouched. The Semliki Forest forms the easternmost reaches of the Central African Rainforest and is home to myriad bird species (including at least 30 rare endemics).

8-hour 30-minute hour international flight to Entebbe- Kampala Airport. Semliki Lodge is then a 6-hour drive from Entebbe, or 1-hour flight.


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