UWA campsites: Kakine and Nagusokopire
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Budget
Inside the park
Park-run (UWA)
The cheapest legitimate way to sleep inside Kidepo: UWA's own campsites on the Narus game circuits. Kakine's binocular viewpoint takes in the Napore-Nyungea range, the Morungule mountains and Mount Lomej in one sweep. Facilities are basic but real, with shelter, water, pit latrines and firewood at the public sites. Bring everything else, and book through UWA reservations.
Why you'd pick it
- Sleep inside the park for a fraction of lodge prices
- Kakine's viewpoint has a 360-degree panorama of three mountain ranges
- Shelter, water, firewood and a ranger guide included at wilderness sites
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. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entryCharged per 24 hours rather than per night.
- $40per person, per day
- VehicleA Ugandan-registered 4x4, the usual hire car, at UGX 30,000; bring a foreign-registered one and it is $150.
- $8per vehicle, once for the trip
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $248 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
UWA's tariff charges vehicles per 24 hours, except for concessionaire visitor vehicles, who pay once per trip. Staying at a lodge inside the park puts you in that second group, so the vehicle is counted once above rather than three times.
Entry is sold in 24-hour blocks that begin when you pass the gate, not calendar days. Time your exit before your arrival hour and two nights means two days of fees, not three.
The full fee schedule for Kidepo Valley National ParkRates
From UGX 40,000 pp. Public (Category C) sites UGX 40,000 per person per night; wilderness Category A sites $40 and advance-booking Category B sites $30 per person. The foreigner rate at the public sites is only quoted in shillings, so confirm when booking.
What the rate covers is not confirmed. We do not know yet whether meals, drinks and activities are included, so read this as the bed only.
Every figure on this page is in US dollars.
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 it is off the list rather than sending 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.