4-DAY Safaris to the Murchison falls National Park

4-DAY Safaris to the Murchison falls NP

Safari’s summary

• Arrival at Entebbe internal Airport and overnight at the booked hotel
• Transfer to Murchison fall National Park with a stop-over at Zziwa Rhino sanctuary for Rhino trekking and evening game drive.
• Game drive and afternoon boat Cruise, short hiking up to the top of the falls
• Return to Entebbe for our sweet Journey Home

Day-1

Upon the arrival at Entebbe international airport, you will be received by our English/Spanish/Dutch/German/French/Chinese speaking Hugo safaris guide/driver who will welcome you to Uganda, the Pearl of Africa. Thereafter you will be transferred to the booked Hotel/ accommodation in Entebbe or Kampala.

Day-2 Transfer to Murchison falls National Park with rhino trekking at Zziwa Rhino sanctuary.

The English tour guide will pick you from the hotel after breakfast and head for Murchison falls National Park. On the way, you will have a stop-over at Zziwa Rhino sanctuary for the Rhino tracking. You will at least have an hour with the Rhinos while being guided by an armed Ranger from the Uganda wild life authority (UWA), while you are here, you will have a chance to view other grazers (especially antelopes) like the Red bucks, water bucks and a variety of birds, vervet monkeys and baboons. After the rhino trekking, you will have lunch and head straight the Murchison falls NP for an evening game drive.

Murchison falls being Uganda’s biggest national park of an approximate area of 3893km2, its divided into the southern bank (the Forested area with a lot of primates like baboons, monkeys and chimpanzees at Budongo forest) and the Northern bank (mostly Savanna with a lot of animals both carnivorous and herbivorous) and when its game reserves are all included, it’s around 5663km2.

View of Murchison falls from the top

Day-3 Game driver and boat cruise at Murchison falls NP

Wake up early in the morning, have breakfast and head for a wonderful morning game drive through the most beautiful and rolling plains of Uganda’s biggest park where you shall have a chance of viewing lions, spotted hyenas, leopards, herds of cape buffaloes, herds of Giraffes, herds of elephants, schools of hipos, herds of antelopes like the Uganda kob, Jackson hartebeest, Orbis and for the bird lovers, this park has a lot of bird species like the northern red bishop, black chested snake eagle, secretary bird, Abyssinian ground hornbill, kites, eagles and others, return to the hotel, relax  and have lunch.   After lunch, go for a boat cruise at the base of Murchison falls where you will be able to see a variety of mammals/animals in and out of the water like buffaloes, elephants drinking water, Nile crocodiles, schools of Hipos and fish, antelopes and a variety of birds not seen in the savanna the Africa fish eagle and the African darter. You will continue to the bottom of the falls and if you love hiking, it’s a bite strenuous but the journey to the top of the falls will be unforgettable and it takes around 2-3 hours, return to the hotel/lodge but if there is time, you can have a short game drive to the hotel.

Day-4 Return to Kampala

This journey shall take us 6-7 hours to Kampala and then to Entebbe but we shall have a stop-over for lunch, continue our journey and while in Kampala or Entebbe, we shall visit some tourist shops to buy souvenir as we head back home