5 Days Murchison Falls National Park : Book this 5day safari trip to Murchison falls national park if you are looking for rewarding safari experience in Uganda to see animals but have only couple of the days free. Murchison falls National Park is the most popular park for safari trips in Uganda. It is the largest park in Uganda and hosts a wide variety of animals. Murchison falls national park offers the best sighting of animals.
On this 5days Murchison falls national park trip you will do a game drive in the beautiful savannah to see animals such as lions, giraffe, antelopes, elephants, buffaloes, warthogs.
The might river Nile crosses through Murchison falls national park on which the spectacular Murchison falls- the world’s strongest waterfalls is located. You will therefore do a boat cruise trip along the river Nile that will expose you to more wildlife along the river banks and get to the bottom of the falls from where you will take hike to the top of the Murchison falls.
Highlight for 5 days explore Murchison falls safari
Day 1: Kampala- Murchison falls national park
Day 2: game drive and boat cruise
Day 3: morning delta boat cruise
Day 4: chimps’ tracking and Zziwa sanctuary
Day 5: transfer and departure
Detailed itinerary
Day 1: Kampala- Murchison falls national park
After an early morning breakfast, o9ur guide will pick you from hotel in Kampala by 7:30am then transfer to north-west through the famous luwero triangle and Masindi town to Murchison falls national park. And en route lunch at kabalenga dinners. Proceed and enter the park with a visit to the top of the falls where you can saw the park the Nile’s beauty perfect marvel at the Nile, compressing from 50 meters can on dropping 40 meters with a thunderous roar. Later you will have the evening game drive as you proceed to the park.
Day 2: game drive and boat cruise
The 2nd day of 5days explore Murchison falls safari, you will have the morning breakfast early at your hotel as you wait for your driver/guide to come and pick you as you proceed for game drive via Nyamsika plateau, enjoy the view and you may see some of the big five animals in the plateau which include; elephants, giraffe, buffaloes warthogs, bush backs, water-bucks and many more. Return to the lodge for refreshment, breakfast and lunch, then after prepare for a boat trip on placid Victoria Nile, upstream, to the base of the falls.
En route you will see hippos, crocodiles, waterbucks and wide variety of birds like pelican bee-eater, egrets, kingfishers and herons. The boat stops about 10 meters from the devil’s cauldron. Take photogenic and majestic Murchison falls. Return to lodge for dinner and overnight.
5 Days Murchison Falls National Park
Day 3: morning delta boat cruise & afternoon game drive
After breakfast, you will be picked up by your guide for boat cruise in the delta areas of Murchison falls national park. The Nile delta boat cruise offers a chance to see a lot of wildlife species that includes, buffaloes, elephants, crocodiles, hippos and the rare shoebill stock. You will return back to your lodge for lunch and refreshments and after you prepare for the evening game drive, transfer to pakuba safari lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 4: chimps’ tracking- Zziwa sanctuary
After an early morning breakfast you will be transferred to the ferry crossing to budongo forest headquarters for chimpanzee trekking where you will be briefed first about the trekking procure. The visitors is advised to carry at least a bottle of water and snacks just in case tracking takes long. After these chimpanzee have got, you are given 1hour to stay with them. During chimp tracking will also give the bird watchers the opportunity to sight different bird species in the forest especially budongo forest. After you will go bac k to the lodge where you will be served lunch and relax a little after amazing chimpanzee trekking. After you will be transferred to Zziwa sanctuary for rhino tracking, check in the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 5: transfer and departure
After an early morning breakfast you will go for your rhino tracking walk in the Zziwa rhino sanctuary home of Uganda’s remaining rhino population. The Zziwa sanctuary was created to conserve and the rhino, with intention of re-introducing them to all other parks in Uganda where they once lived before they were all poached. After tracking experience, you will return to your lodge for check out then proceed to Kampala.
