Murchison Falls National Park

Park Brief

Murchison Falls N.P lies at the northern end of the Albertine Rift Valley, stretching up to Bunyoro region. Murchison Falls, is Uganda’s largest National Park gazetted as the country’s first national parks in 1952. The park has a unique environment for film makers and it’s famous for having formed part of the 1951 film “The African Queen” starring Humphrey Bogart (on Lake Albert and the Nile).

The park is bisected by the world’s longest river (R.Nile) which incredibly squeezes through a narrow 8m wide gorge and then eventually plunges 45m over the remnant rift valley wall, with a thunderous roar into the “Devil’s Cauldron”, to form the world’s strongest waters falls to create an almost permanent rainbow trademark for tourists and later an 80km stretch of rapids.

Its vegetation in the north is characterized with savanna, Borassus palms, acacia trees and riverine wood while in south, its woodland and forest patches. The park has a lot of wildlife with a high chances of coming across all the African big 5(five). Murchison falls has about 144 mammals, 556 bird species,51 reptiles, and 51 Amphibians.

Memorable Activities: The most memorable activities in this park include but not limited to: Boat trip along the R.Nile to Murchison Falls, Hiking to the top of the falls, birding, research,  Day and Night game drives, Shoe bill tracking, chimpanzee tracking at Kanio Pabidi, Forest/nature walk, butterfly tourism and Research based tourism on botany,zoology archeology. Rhino tracking at Zziwa Rhino sanctuary, comes as the best accompaniment on your way to Murchison Falls National Park.

Accessibility: To do all these activities, we help you to reach the park using either road or air.

Accommodation: There a number of lodges from budget to high-End within a radius of 50 km.

Easiest way to explore this park (3/2 days). It’s possible for visitors sleeping in Entebbe/Kampala (Uganda) to drive direct to the park and do activities on the first day then others on the following day(s) thereafter, come back to Kampala or proceed to other parks within 3 or 2 days.