Murchison Falls National Park Safaris
Murchison Falls National Park Safaris : Murchison Falls National Park before it was named as Kabalega National Park, located at the end of the Albertine Rift Valley and known as Uganda’s oldest and largest safari park. The park lies 305 kilometers north of Kampala in Masindi district and can be reached by road or flights.
Generally, Murchison Falls National Park was first gazetted as a wildlife reserve in 1926 and is home to over 76 different mammal species and over 451 bird species. Murchison conservation Area is comprised of Bugungu, Karuma wildlife reserves and Murchison Falls National Park. The park is bisected by the Victoria Nile which plunges 45 meter over the remnant valley wall, creating the dramatic falls and the park’s rare attraction and the final event in an 80 kilometers stretch of rapids. The mighty cascade drains the last of the river’s energy, transforming it into a broad, placid stream that runs cross the rift valley floor into Lake Albert. This stretch of river offers one of Uganda’s most impressive wildlife spectacles that can only be experienced through Uganda Safaris /Uganda tours.
The regular visitors to the riverbanks include lions, elephants, giraffes and buffaloes while hippos, Nile crocodiles and aquatic birds are permanent residents. Prominent visitors who have ever visited to Murchison Falls National Park include; Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernest Hemingway and several British royals.
Most done activities include; Wildlife viewing safaris at Murchison Falls, game viewing, launch trips to the bottom of the falls and hikes to the top where you can view the devil’s Cauldron, birding and nature walks. There is launch trips that offers close gainful view of attractive features on the Nile, hot air ballooning activities are also available within the park.
The park’s beautiful vegetation is made up of savannah, Riverine forest and woodland. Some of wildlife list includes; Kobs, elephants, Rothschild giraffes, hartebeests, Oribis, leopards, lions, Uganda kobs, chimpanzees and many bird species.
They all the above activities can be best visited on a Uganda Safari during the months of June to Mid-September and December to Mid-March.
Getting to Murchison Falls National Park;
Murchison Falls National Park lies in the northern region of Uganda and located north west of Kampala Uganda’s capital. Fact, the park is surrounded with several districts like Masindi, Buyisa, Kiryandongo and Mwoya and it spreads in land to form the shores of Lake Albert and over around the Bunyoro escarpment and around Karuma falls wildlife reserve.
Getting to Murchison Falls National Park is easy and affordable when traveling by bus or private car or safari vehicle and spend about 3 to 4 hours from Kampala. Other travelers decide to fly from Entebbe Kajjansi airport to the Chobe airstrip – it’s the quickest means of transport to the park.
Activities in Murchison Falls National park
Murchison Falls National Park offers species activities on safari including Game drives, Boat cruise done on the Victoria Nile, Bird watching the park host over 450 bird species, nature walks, hiking the top of the falls –offers thrilling view of the thunderous world’s powerful water fall, chimpanzee tracking in budongo forest.
Accommodations in Murchison Falls National Park
When to comes where to stay while on more than 1-day safari in Murchison, well –Murchison Falls National Park have got excellent tour accommodation facilities in terms of lodges in the whole country. The park provides list of a range of accommodation for your comfortable stay while in the amidst of the wilderness. Lodges in and out here ranges from budget, Mid-range and Luxurious lodge.
Luxurious lodges include; Chobe Safari lodge, Nile Safari Lodge, Paraa Safari Lodge and Bakers Lodges,
Mid-ranges lodges; Pakuba Safari lodge, Fort Murchison safari lodge, Sambya River Lodge, Murchison River Lodge among others.
Budget lodges; Parkside safari lodge, Yebo safari camp, Budongo Eco lodge among other.
Along your safari to Murchison Falls National Park, you can combine it with visiting other Uganda safari destination like Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park for gorilla trekking or combine it with Kibale Forest National Park for Chimpanzees tracking or hiking trails at Mount Rwenzori or Uganda wildlife safaris at Queen Elizabeth National Park, Kidepo Valley National Park and Lake Mburo National Park among others.
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