Isunga Lodge

Isunga Lodge sits on a raised ridge on the edge of Kibale National Park, a short drive from the Kanyanchu visitor centre where chimpanzee tracking begins. The lodge is deliberately small, with a handful of bright, en-suite cottages furnished with four-poster beds under mosquito nets, local fabrics and private verandas facing the forest and the hills beyond. On clear days the view stretches over the Kibale canopy to the Rwenzori Mountains, Lake George and the plains of Queen Elizabeth National Park. Meals are served in a thatched open-sided restaurant and on a wooden deck built for sunsets, with a small swimming pool set on the slope below. Owner-run and community minded, Isunga is a relaxed, good-value base for chimpanzee tracking, forest walks and the Bigodi wetland sanctuary, and Watatu also lists it as Isunga Cabin.