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The view from Warujojo's ridge over the plains of Queen Elizabeth National Park
Experiences

Where the savanna
hides a rainforest

Three landscapes, one ridge

The gorge. The channel.
The escarpment.

A wide panorama of the savanna that runs from the lodge to the horizon

Your days, planned from the lodge

Every experience below starts and ends at Warujojo. We arrange the permits, the boats and the guides; you keep the mornings slow and the evenings by the fire.

Savanna plains running toward the green line of Kyambura Gorge
Kyambura Gorge

Track the lost chimps of Kyambura

The Valley of Apes is the only place in the park with habituated chimpanzees, and it begins at our doorstep.

  • Twice-daily guided treks from Fig Tree Camp
  • 2–4 hours in the gorge, one hour with the chimps
  • Around 80% sighting success
  • Colobus, red-tailed and vervet monkeys on the way
Open plains stretching toward the Kazinga Channel
Kazinga Channel

Two hours on the water

The 32 km channel between Lake George and Lake Edward holds one of the world's densest hippo populations.

  • Morning and afternoon cruises from Mweya
  • Hippos and Nile crocodiles at close range
  • Elephant and buffalo herds at the shoreline
  • Golden-hour departures for photographers
The Kichwamba Escarpment looking over Queen Elizabeth National Park
The escarpment

Viewpoints & twin crater lakes

From the Kichwamba Escarpment the whole park lies open below you, with the Rwenzori Mountains behind.

  • Kyambura Viewpoint over park and channel
  • Guided walk to lakes Katinda & Milambi
  • Community craft shop, honey and jewellery
  • Best light at sunrise and sunset
A flagstone path leading out toward the park plains
On foot

Walks, birds & quiet places

The gorge hides thirteen habitats between savanna and rainforest, best explored slowly, on foot.

  • Guided forest walks in the gorge
  • The two-hour Kyambura Wetland Trail
  • 300+ bird species, finfoot to martial eagle
  • Flamingos on the saline crater lakes
Deep green garden rows, like the smallholder coffee gardens of Kichwamba
From the garden

Coffee, from cherry to cup

Join a Kichwamba smallholder family and follow the bean the whole way through their garden.

  • Pick ripe cherries in season
  • Pulp, dry and roast over an open fire
  • Brew and taste with the family
  • Pairs with the twin-lakes walk
The terrace at evening, where local drinks are served after a village visit
A local taste

Banana beer & waragi gin

See how brewing bananas become tonto beer, and how the village still turns it into waragi.

  • Village brewing demonstration
  • Fermentation and the pot still, explained
  • Taste tonto banana beer at the brewery
  • Bottled Uganda Waragi back at our bar
The open plains of Queen Elizabeth National Park
Further afield

Full days in the park

For longer stays we build full-day outings into Queen Elizabeth National Park and its crater country.

  • Game drives on the Kasenyi plains
  • Tree-climbing lions in the Ishasha sector
  • Salt mining at Lake Katwe
  • Forest walks in Maramagambo & Kalinzu
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