Murchison Falls National Park is your best all-around park for a 3-day moderate wildlife safari that gives you the best of Uganda on Game Drives – Lions – Elephants- Giraffes – Buffaloes -the Boat Safari on the Nile with Hippos – Crocodiles – Water Birds, and the Murchison Falls Hike – and Rhino Tracking on this 3-day Safari to Uganda’s Best all-around Wildlife Park. A 3-Day Compact Wildlife Safari with Rhino Trekking gives a Big-5 Safari, and you can add-on Chimpanzee Trekking in Budongo Forest. This Safari optimizes what you can see in the Pearl of Africa and compacts into three days. Murchison Falls National Park is the only park in Uganda where you can see the Big-5 on a 3-day mini-safari. Murchison Falls is your best option in Uganda for a 3-day Wildlife Safari where you get the maximum return regarding seeing wildlife. You can make it a comfortable 5-Safari by staying one night at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary and another in Bundongo Forest, where you track chimpanzees.

Your 3-day wildlife safari in Murchison Falls Park starts with a departure from either Kampala or Entebbe at 6:30 am. We will head north on our safari journey toward Murchison Falls Park. We reach the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, where we will embark on a guided trek on foot to track the majestic Rhinos. This will provide us with ample opportunities to take great photos up close. During the trek, we will get as close as 10 meters to these massive creatures, and experienced rangers will lead our journey for approximately 1½ hrs. The Rhinos reside in a Sanctuary and will eventually be released into Murchison Falls Park. We continue our journey to Murchison Falls Park, arriving at the River Nile, which we cross to the northern bank. We went on our first game drive where we look out for lions, elephants, leopards, buffaloes, antelopes, giraffes, warthogs, and savanna birds. Afterward, we checked into Pakuba Lodge, located on the Wildlife side of the River Nile.

Murchison Falls National Park

Early morning breakfast and off you are for another game drive across the savanna, along Lake Albert Delta, with abundant wildlife as you move slowly as the sun rises. Welcome to Africa. What you are sensing and feeling, seeing around you cannot be replicated anywhere else in the world, this is Murchison Falls Park with its birds, lions, leopards, elephants, hippos, buffaloes, warthogs, giraffes, humorous appearing warthogs. After lunch, it is one of the highlights of your Murchison Falls National Park Safari, the boat safari trip up the Nile River. You are slowly moving along the river bank, viewing crocodiles, an abundance of hippos, elephants, buffaloes, antelopes, and lots of birds, including the fish eagle, storks and so much more. The boat moves gently up the river and stays on the left-hand side so that you see most of the animals who come to the river. Herds of Elephants cooling off, Hippopotamus frolicking, crocodiles just dozing in the African sun.

Waterfall Cruises - Murchison Falls

As you cruise down the Nile before you is Murchison Falls – the most powerful waterfall in the World. The River Nile is 50 meters wide above the falls, moves down through a 6-meter gorge, and falls 43 meters, the sound is loud, and the sight makes one realize how dynamic nature can be. Close by. There is a bank on the river filled with Nile crocodiles basking in the afternoon sun, just down from there, you can see a group of hippos frolicking in the water of the Nile. There are thousands of hippopotamus to be found here, birds in abundance. At the bottom of the falls, disembark and take the guided hike up along the most powerful waterfall in the world – Murchison Falls. You will be cooled down with some fall mist to keep you comfortable. At the top of the falls, you are met by your driver guide, and you will cross the Nile by ferry and head back to Fort Murchison for dinner and rest. This is the same trail that Winston Churchill used in 1907 when he visited the Falls and came down it.

Murchison Falls National Park

Good morning! Let's grab some breakfast and check out of our accommodations. If we missed the top of the Falls excursion yesterday, we can do it now before heading to Kampala. We cross to the Southern bank, then head for Masindi, where we’ll stop for lunch at Kabalega Diners. I hope you have a wonderful time on your 3-Day Murchison Falls Park Wildlife Safari. Unsurprisingly, this park has become the most popular in Uganda in recent years, as it boasts a diverse array of wildlife, including the endangered Rothschild Giraffes, whose numbers are steadily increasing.