Mahogany Springs Lodge

Mahogany Springs Lodge is a superb small luxury lodge at the Buhoma entrance to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, one of Uganda's finest gorilla trekking bases, with eight elegantly furnished stone-and-thatch cottages set on a hillside above the Munyaga River gorge, with the wall of the Bwindi forest rising directly opposite. Each cottage has a private deck with forest views, creating the sensation of being suspended above the ancient rainforest.

The lodge's intimate scale, exceptional Ugandan cuisine, and the extraordinary sound and atmosphere of the Bwindi forest, often visited by colobus monkeys, L'Hoest's monkeys, and forest elephants, make the non-trekking hours at the lodge as memorable as the gorilla encounter itself. Mahogany Springs is consistently rated as one of Bwindi's finest properties.