He became one of the first to grow tea successfully in Uganda, developing a string of tea shambas north and south of Fort Portal (now the tea growing centre of Uganda), including Kiko and Rwetera. In the process he built roads, a school, a clinic and planted many African hardwoods. In the early 1960's he brought Ndali, but apart from some acres of tea and robusta coffee the land was left to grow wild. He developed a close relationship with the King of Toro (the Omukama) whose regalia he risked hiding after the suppression of the four hereditary kingdoms by President Milton Obote in 1967.

When all Asians and Europeans were expelled in the early 70's, Major Price was given permission by General Amin to stay on at his house at Rwetera ( a two-hour walk from Ndali), although his land - Rwetera and Ndali - had been confiscated. His house at Rwetera still stands today, surrounded by the rare conifers he brought over from Kenya.

In 1991 the new government led by Museveni invited all dispossessed foreign landowners to reclaim their land. Major Price's son, Mark Price - who had spent four years in Uganda working with his father until the time of explusion - took up the invitation and began building Ndali Lodge in 1994 with moral and financial help of friends.

‘Captain Mark Araali’, as he was fondly known by the toro people, sadly died in September 1998. Since that time the lodge has been run by family and friends including his sister Caroline, his niece Lulu, who now runs the farm, his son Aubrey and Becky Holt – the daughter of James, a close friend of Mark and a keen investor. Aubrey has now shed his pub in Edinburgh and has settled in Ndali permanently. He and Lulu are now the third generation of the Price/Sturdy family in the Fort-Portal area and it looks like they’re here to stay.

Ndali Lodge was built using local materials and labour and designed by Mark Price to blend with landscape Using traditional rough-casting and spear-grass thatch. Light, space, simplicity and openness to nature are key qualities.