It is located within Murchison Falls National Park, the largest wildlife reserve in Uganda, measuring approximately 5,000 square kilometres (1,900 sq mi).

This location lies approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi), by road, southeast of Pakwach, on the bank of the Albert Nile.

Built in the early 1950s, Paraa, meaning the place of hippos in Luo, is one of the main attractions of the park, in addition to the dramatic Murchison Falls and the large variety of bird and animal species.

Amenities include a large swimming pool, a restaurant, a bar, en-suite bathrooms and balconies on all rooms.

Other famous visitors to the park were Emin Pasha, Theodore Roosevelt and the American novelist Ernest Hemingway, whose plane dipped to catch sight of the Murchison Falls, went too low and caught a telephone wire and crashed.