Country: Uganda
Destinations: Entebbe and Murchison Falls National Park
Itinerary at Glance
Day 1: Transfer to Murchison Falls
Day 2: Game drive and boat cruise on the Nile.
Day 3: Departure
Safari Overview.
3 Days Murchison Falls National Park Wildlife Safari, is one of the great way to explore one of the Uganda’s most visited national park, for a great wildlife experience, where you will have a big opportunity to encounter the Big Five, thus Elephants, Leopards, Buffaloes, Lions and Rhinos at Ziwa Rhino sanctuary. You will enjoy a beautiful game drive in the park in search of wildlife, as well as a boat trip to the bottom of the falls. This will be a great way to have a wonderful wildlife safari in Uganda, through visiting one of the oldest parks in Uganda. The 3 days will enable you to explore the park in a great way.
Trip Highlights.
- Boat cruise on the Nile
- Game drives
- On foot Rhino trekking
- Visit top of the falls
- Wildlife safari experience
Day 1: To Murchison Falls National Park. . Journey Time +5 hrs.
Day Itinerary
Enjoy an early breakfast in your hotel in Kampala/ Entebbe, meet your guide, who will shortly take you through a brief briefing of your trip, and later jump into your jeep, and you continue your journey to Murchison Falls National Park, one of the oldest conservation areas in Uganda. This is a long but rewarding journey through various landscapes of Northern Uganda, as you explore the beautiful countryside setting, with a flat topography, as we drive past the rural area, enjoying the homestead settings of the Luo tribes.
Murchison Falls National Park is Uganda’s best-known and biggest nature reserve. With the impressive and powerful Murchison waterfall and its remarkable animal populations, this is a must visit in the Pearl of Africa. There are superb activities on offer such as a boat safari or Delta safari on the Nile. The river divides the park between a Northern and Southern section as it makes its way through multiple rapids and waterfalls to Lake Albert. Unfortunately, during the war years poachers and troops wiped out the majority of wildlife. Except for the park’s rhino population, fortunately all other wildlife has recovered fast since. A game drive in the park allows you to be eye-to-eye with the African animal kingdom and you will be amazed by the amount of elephants. Also giraffes, lions, antelope, waterbucks, buffaloes, hippos and crocodiles can all be spotted. Game drives take place on the tracks in the northern section which you reach by taking a ferry across the river. This park guarantees adventure!
You will enjoy an en route lunch and reach the park, register and proceed with your drive to visit top of the falls, waterfalls, the most powerful waterfall in Africa. The views are amazing! You will later return back to your lodge, with a slow en route game drive, and spend the afternoon at leisure swimming or dinning.
Overnight stay at: Pakuba Safari Lodge.
Meal Plan: lunch & dinner
Day 2: Safari in Murchison Falls National Park
Day Itinerary
After an early breakfast, it is time to explore the park. On your Game Drives you of course need a fair share of luck and very good eyes to try and spot as many animals as possible. While driving through the park you can come eye-to-eye with the African animal kingdom. Hopefully you see them all; elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, lions, leopards, different species of antelope and many tropical birds. They are all there! Lost in nature, stretching your neck, to spot the best out of the drive. The park is especially known for its massive elephant population, huge array of bird species and big herds of buffalo. You will discover some of the park’s ecosystems and different scenery with dense woodland, extensive savannahs and rolling grasslands. As this is a private game drive you can ask your guide to tailor your trip towards specific birdlife and/or wildlife if you like. You will later have your picnic lunch served, take some relaxation, as you have a break.
The afternoon boat safari towards the Murchison Falls is a very special activity, it takes approximately 3 hours and goes along the Victoria Nile to the base of the fall. You can imagine; this boat safari will show you breathtaking scenery. Cold drinks are for sale on board for when you get thirsty for a local beer or a soda. Carefully watched by crocodiles, hundreds of hippos, buffaloes, water birds, monkeys and all the other (also thirsty) wildlife that the Nile attracts you go to the bottom of the powerful Murchison Falls. Later proceed with your boat cruise, return and find your guide waiting for you, proceed to your accommodation, with an en route game drive, to add on your day’s wildlife count.
Overnight stay at: Pakuba Safari Lodge.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, lunch & dinner
Day 3: Transfer back to Kampala/ Entebbe. Journey Time +5 hrs.
Day Itinerary
Breakfast will be served on time, as today, will mark our final day of our adventure as time has come to head back to Kampala or Entebbe (Airport). You will have a wonderful ride and on the way back, we can stop by at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, for on foot Rhino tracking, this takes roughly 3 hour’s. We shall later proceed to Kampala and make a stopover at the best place for your souvenir shopping.
Your driver/guide will take you to your accommodation in Kampala/Entebbe (in case you’re to fly the next morning) or to Entebbe Airport (this is only possible if your departure flight leaves at 8 pm or later). Accommodation for tonight is not inclusive in the itinerary. In case you wish us to include one (or more) nights in Kampala and/or Entebbe, please let us know. End of service!
Meal Plan: Breakfast & lunch.
This safari package includes.
- Transportation in a 4×4 safari vehicle with a pop up roof
- Accommodation and meals as per itinerary
- Safari game drives as mentioned
- Boat cruises as mentioned
- En-route lunches
- Park entrance fees
- Rhino tracking
- Services of English speaking driver/guide
- Bottles of mineral water per day during safari
The package excludes expenses of personal nature like:
- Visa Fees & flights
- Optional activities
- Tips & gratuities
- Laundry
- Alcoholic drinks
- International vaccinations
- Health test requirements
- Porter fees while trekking
- Personal travel Insurance
- Personal shopping bills
- Phone call bills
- Extras while at the hotel
- Items of personal nature
Please contact us for a free detailed quote on the option of your choice. We can tailor a request that suits your interests, and budget, as well as we can change or upgrade the lodge options. Write to us with more details about your safari.