Baker’s Lodge

On the quiet southern bank of the Victoria Nile, Baker’s Lodge lines ten thatched, solar-powered suites along the water’s edge — each with a private deck where the only traffic is a passing pod of hippos or a fish eagle working the channel.

Why We Love It

It is Murchison’s most refined address, and the river is the show: boats leave from the lodge’s own jetty for the base of the falls upstream or the shoebill-haunted delta downstream. At night, hippos graze between the suites.

The Experience

Days move with the Nile — dawn boat safaris, game drives on the northern bank among elephant and Rothschild’s giraffe, the thunderous hike to the top of the falls, and dinners under the stars by the water.

Need to Know

Two or three nights is right. The lodge stars in our Murchison Falls & Nile Luxury itinerary; light aircraft from Entebbe land at Pakuba airstrip nearby. Read our Murchison Falls guide.