Adere Safari Lodge
Upmarket en-suite lodge · On the park edge · Adere Safari Lodges
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High-end
Outside the gate
Locally owned
The largest property at Kidepo, hand-built by local craftsmen on the park edge, with twenty en-suite rooms, gardens and even a conference hall. It aims at the upmarket group and workshop trade as much as safari-goers. No rates are published, so enquire directly and compare against Apoka before assuming it is cheaper.
Why you'd pick it
- Hand-built by local craftsmen
- The biggest lodge in the Kidepo area, with 20 rooms
- Conference hall and gardens, unusual this far out
What the park charges on top
The rate above buys you a bed. Kidepo Valley National Park charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside, and almost no booking site shows you that.
Two adults, three nights
- Park entry$40 per adult per 24 hours
- $240
- Vehicle$40 a day. Foreign-registered car; a Ugandan-registered hire car is about $6
- $120
- Before you pay for a bed
- $360
Rates
Enquire. No published rates. The largest room count of any Kidepo property.
Rates gathered July 2026 from operators' own published rate cards where they exist. Kidepo is unusual: nine of the eleven properties we found publish no prices at all, and several widely-listed lodges could not be verified as operating. Where we show no price, none is published; always confirm directly. Buffalo Base Guesthouse and Campsite in Karenga village was on this list until July 2026. A contact on the ground reports it closed at the start of the year. We could not reach the property to confirm, so we have taken it off rather than send anyone eight kilometres to a locked gate. NAMONI Lodge, Zebra Safari Lodge and Katurum Kidepo Lodge were added on 28 July 2026 after a reader pointed out we had missed them. All three are Ugandan owned. NAMONI's entry comes from the lodge's own 2026-27 brochure. The other two publish nothing themselves, so their entries come from booking platforms, which we say plainly because it is a weaker source than we normally use.