Comments on: Wake up and smell the coffee, Rift Valley style https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/adventure/kyambura-gorge-lodge-queen-elizabeth-uganda/ Uganda & East Africa Travel blog Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:14:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: the muzungu https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/adventure/kyambura-gorge-lodge-queen-elizabeth-uganda/#comment-58059 Mon, 26 Aug 2019 08:05:03 +0000 https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/?p=2660#comment-58059 An update from Kyambura Lodge owners Volcanoes Safaris:
Kyambura Gorge Lodge has been fully refurbished and upgraded during 2018 with entirely remodelled public areas and gardens.
Four deluxe bandas were opened in June 2019, each with their private sitting room and terrace. The swimming pool has been redesigned and upgraded. A new spa with two treatments rooms has been opened.
In February 2019, Volcanoes Safaris launched the Kyambura Gorge Eco-tourism project, a series of community and conservation activities developed since 2009 to safeguard the Kyambura Gorge ecosystem.
The company has created new walking safaris around the lodge for guests to experience the dramatic landscapes of Kyambura Gorge and the Queen Elizabeth savannah, and visit a reclaimed wetland. Guests can walk along the Kyambura Gorge buffer zone that was created by VS to protect the fragile ecosystem from encroachment. Visitors can contribute to this long-term conservation project by planting a seedling.

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By: It's official: life in a developing country wears you down | Diary of a Muzungu | Uganda & East Africa Travel Blog https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/adventure/kyambura-gorge-lodge-queen-elizabeth-uganda/#comment-35538 Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:58:11 +0000 https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/?p=2660#comment-35538 […] if journeys here in the UK will ever seem as long again? Nowadays I’m used to day long drives to Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park and ten minute journeys into town (that take an hour or more because of the ridiculous traffic […]

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By: the muzungu https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/adventure/kyambura-gorge-lodge-queen-elizabeth-uganda/#comment-34793 Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:12:02 +0000 https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/?p=2660#comment-34793 In reply to ATUL KUMAR HIMATLAL SEDANI.

Hi Kumar
Park entrance fees are for a 24-hour period, so what we normally suggest is that you have your first game drive on the evening of your arrival. You would therefore pay your park entrance fee at 5 pm (for example). This gives you 24 hours (until 4.59 the next afternoon). To get maximum value for money, you would therefore do your morning game drive within that 24-hour period, on day two of your safari. Or you might decide to spend your first day resting and then pay for your park entry fee at 6 o’clock in the morning and have your second game drive that same evening.
By staying at a lodge outside the National Park, like Kyambura Gorge Lodge, you can save money if you plan it carefully. If you stay in a lodge that’s inside the National Park boundary, you have to pay park fees just to stay in the lodge, even though you might not go on game drives.

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By: ATUL KUMAR HIMATLAL SEDANI https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/adventure/kyambura-gorge-lodge-queen-elizabeth-uganda/#comment-34732 Mon, 06 Aug 2018 12:33:07 +0000 https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/?p=2660#comment-34732 if lodge is outside QE park , does that mean you have to pay entry fees everytime you go inside the park? I.e If it is 2 day safari , do you have to pay entry fees twice if staying outside and only once if staying inside the park?
Make thanks in advance…

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By: The distant Volcanoes of Mgahinga https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/adventure/kyambura-gorge-lodge-queen-elizabeth-uganda/#comment-4416 Tue, 15 Apr 2014 20:58:05 +0000 https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/?p=2660#comment-4416 […] Hot chocolate and the friendliest staff welcomed us at Mt Gahinga for a late breakfast: a plate of mixed fruit, followed by a variety of cooked breakfasts, freshly baked bread and local honey. The excellent coffee is produced at Volcanoes Safaris’ sister Lodge in Kyambura Gorge, Queen Elizabeth National Park. […]

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By: CharlieBeau Diary of a Muzungu https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/adventure/kyambura-gorge-lodge-queen-elizabeth-uganda/#comment-2883 Wed, 25 Sep 2013 11:27:05 +0000 https://www.muzungubloguganda.com/?p=2660#comment-2883 RIP Ross Langdon, the creative mind behind the hugely original decor at the Lodge. I never met him but he was friends with many people I know here in Kampala / East Africa. He sounded like a really lovely guy too. As epitaphs go, Kyambura is quite amazing. He was very young. How much further was this creative chap going to go? A tragic loss.

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