Our package of 3 Days Murchison Falls safari offers rhino tracking, game drive, boat cruise and top of the falls hike in Uganda’s oldest and largest park that was gazetted in 1924. The conservation area is made of five reserves; Karuma, Kabwoya, East Madi, Ajai, and Bugungu game reserves and Budongo central forest reserve. In Budongo forest, you can track chimpanzees and enjoy quality time birding along the royal mile walk at Busingiro to spot the unique Congo-Guinea forest species such as Puvel’s Illadopsis. The park is famous for the Murchison Falls where the Nile squeezes itself through a 7-meters wide gorge and plunges over a 45-meter cliff with a thunderous roar into the devil’s cauldron to create a trademark rainbow.
Highlights
- Rhino Tracking on foot
- Murchison Falls
- The Nile River
- Game drive
- Boat cruise
Detailed Itinerary
Day One – Rhino tracking and Top of the falls hike
Pick up from your hotel or guest house in Entebbe or Kampala, have a short briefing with your safari guide who will tell you more about trip to the world’s most powerful waterfall. Along the way, we will have a stopover at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary which is the only place in Uganda to see white rhinos and track them on foot with the help of a ranger. Settle for a hot lunch before leaving Ziwa to enter park via Kachumbanyobo southern entrance gate, where you will drive through the Budongo forest and continue to the top of the falls. After top of the falls hike, drive and cross the new Nile bridge to your lodge which is on the north banks of the Nile for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Pakuba Safari Lodge
Meal Plan: Full Board
Day Two – Game drive and afternoon boat cruise
After an early breakfast preferably 6:30am, we head out for a morning game drive to search for Big cats. On a lucky day, you may be able to find the lions by the roadside given that the grass is wet very early in the morning and lions tend to come and walk through the game tracks avoiding the wet grass. Keep a keen eye on the big acacias for leopards in the morning when the sun is out.
In the afternoon, you will take a shared boat to the bottom of the falls, a highlight activity of 3 days Murchison falls safari. (Private boat available on request at 200$). While on the boat, the Nile presents a chance of watching animals that come to drink and cool off at the banks of the Nile including the great African elephants, waterbucks, Rothschild’s giraffes, and buffaloes. Among others include the Nile crocodiles, the monitor lizard, and hippos. For bird lovers, this boat is definitely a good place to spot some water birds, including the giant kingfishers, red throated bee-eaters, African Fish eagles, rock pranticoles, Egyptian goose among others. Later get off the boat and hike to the top of the falls to view the falls where the Nile squeezes itself in in narrow gorge creating spectacular view. After the boat cruise, you will enjoy an evening game drive en route to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Pakuba Safari Lodge
Meal Plan: Full Board
Day Three – Morning game drive and transfer back to Entebbe
After our early breakfast, We will have a short game drive as we head out of the park and drive back to Kampala. Depending on your departure time, we will either have lunch en route or in Kampala before drop off at your preferred hotel or airport.
Accommodation: None
Meal Plan: Lunch
Included in package price
- Accommodation as per the itinerary (2 Nights at Pakuba Safari Lodge)
- Park entrance fees and tax involved
- 4×4 Safari Landcruiser customized for game viewing with a professional English-speaking guide
- Drinking water
- Shared boat cruise (PM)
- Vehicle entrance fees
- Activities mentioned in the itinerary
Extra costs
- Optional activities
- Tips and gratuity
- International air tickets
- Visa entry fees
- Anything not mentioned in this itinerary
Those intending to do a longer safari with both wildlife, gorillas, and chimpanzees, check out our 8 days Uganda safari.
