The three-day Murchison Falls tour takes you through Uganda’s oldest, largest, and most visited national park. You will get the chance while on your journey to see all 4 of Africa’s big mammals (lion, leopard, elephants, and buffalos), except the rhino that are only found at Zziwa Rhino Sanctuary in Uganda.
Murchison Falls National Park is endowed with several attractions including the most unique and powerful waterfall in the world that gives anyone the zeal to wander for it. In the park you find over 76 mammal species with four members of the big five and these include; the lions, the leopards, the elephants, and the Buffaloes. Other species include; bushbucks, Uganda kobs, waterbucks, warthogs, giraffes, Jackson’s hartebeest, hyenas and others. Along the shores of the Albert Nile and within the waters you will see lots of hippos and crocodiles among other resident creatures.
Trip Info
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Murchison Falls National Park
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Day 1: Elephant View lodge (Mid - range) or similar
Day 2: Elephant View lodge (Mid - range) or similar
Day 3: No (End tour)
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Day 1: Lunch and Dinner
Day 2: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 3: Breakfast and Lunch
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Throughout the journey
Itinerary
Our company driver guide will pick you from Entebbe and start your journey to Murchison Falls National Park. You will have a stop at the famous Luwero triangle to buy watermelons, oranges, mangoes, pineapples and others. Lunch will be taken at Kabalega resort Hotel, after which you will proceed to the park and visit to the top of the falls. This is one of the star places best known for the most powerful waterfall in the world. Every second, an equivalent of 200 bathtubs full of water is forced through a gorge less than seven paces wide. After you shall proceed to your lodge where you will unwind for the rest of the evening. Dinner and overnight stay at the lodge.
An early morning delicious breakfast is served at around 6:00am as you get ready for the game drive expecting plenty of wildlife like lions, leopards, elephants, hippos, buffaloes, warthogs, giraffes, and among others. Shoebill storks, the goliath heron (the largest heron in the world) and pairs of elegant grey crowned cranes (Uganda’s national bird) are among some of the birds expected in and around the park. You will go back to your lodge after the morning game drive to relax as you take your delicious lunch.
After lunch you set off for boat cruise up the Albert Nile River with the guide. The cruise is usually done at a slow pace for about 3 to 4hrs along the river bank to enhance the viewing of animals like crocodiles, hippos, antelopes, elephants, buffaloes, plenty of water birds including fish eagle, night jars, shoe bills, gray crowned cranes, goliath herons, black headed lapwings and among others.
Our company always arrange in the evening some community walks to the neighboring villages for the visitors to get a chance to experience the local villages around the park. You will be introduced to different cultural aspects of the community as they perform their cultural dances, farming methods, and so forth. After you shall proceed to your lodge to enjoy more of your evening accompanied with tales at the born fire. Dinner and overnight stay at the lodge.
NB: You can go for a night game drive that usually allowed with a very experienced ranger with spotlight touches to enable the targeting of the spotting of the predators at night like the hyenas, leopards, lions and so forth. This experience goes at an extra charge of $250 per person
In the morning, you shall have breakfast of African coffee from the lodge and check out. You will have your morning game drive through the park to the Wankwar gate and you might see some wildlife if you are lucky. Our driver then drives you back to Kampala but there will be a stopover at Karuma falls just before Masindi town at Kabalega resort hotel for an African Delicious lunch.
Arrival to Kampala, if it is still early you can take a tour in Kampala or if time is against our wish, the driver will drop you back to the hotel or to the airport to catch up with the flight if you’re going back.