Our Guide/Driver will pick you up from the airport or your hotel in Entebbe/Kampala and brief you before starting the journey to the Murchison Falls National Park. Enjoy the drive as you observe the African countryside and small towns like Luwero and Nakasongola. Nakasongola is a cattle keeping corridor and you will be amazed by the vast herds of long horned cattle grazing close to the roadside. . You may ask the Guide/Driver to stop briefly at one of the markets so that you can mingle with the locals and check out some of the tasty local fruits like mangoes, oranges, pineapples, bananas and maize.
Your first main stop is at the Ziwa Rhino sanctuary. This sanctuary was established to protect the few remaining white rhinos in Uganda after 99% were killed by poachers. Rhinos once roamed the national parks in Uganda but extensive poaching wiped them out. It was easier to kill them for their valuable horns because they have no fear of humans like the other large mammals. The sanctuary is also great for birding, primates viewing and spotting antelopes. After tracking the rhinos, you will proceed to have lunch at the nearby Masindi town
After Masindi, you will proceed to Murchison Falls national park and proceed straight to the top of the falls.
Day 1: Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park and Evening game drive
You will be picked up by the driver or guide and embark on your journey to Murchison falls national park. The journey is usually 5-6 hours, you will have some stopovers for stretching and sight seeing. Along the Budongo forest stretch, you will be able to sight the olive baboons on the road sides welcoming you to Murchison falls national park. You will check in your lodge and rest. In the evening you will embark on an evening game drive and view animals like; the lions, leopards, giraffes, the Uganda Kob, buffaloes, oribi, jackals, elephants, warthogs, Jackson hartebeests, hyenas and countless birds. Look out for the early morning risers and predators like leopards returning back to their dens after hunting.
Day 2: Morning Game drive and boat cruise.
The driver will pick you up in the morning and embark on a morning game drive, it gives you a different feel of nature from the sunrise to predators hunting or feeding on their kill as they go back to the thickets to rest for the day.
You return to the lodge for lunch and later ride of the boat along the river Nile to the bottom of the Murchison falls. While on the cruise you will spot crocodiles, hippos, elephants, buffaloes, waterbucks, warthogs and this part of the river Nile offers some of the best birding spots in Uganda. Watch out for the Shoebill storks, Goliath heron, hornbills, the yellow billed stork, pelicans, bee-eaters, kingfishers, Egyptian goose and African fish eagles.
You will return to the lodge for resting and dinner.
Day 3: Top of the falls and Transfer to Kampala
After breakfast you will embark on a safari to the top of the falls on the southern bank of the park. You will take pictures for good memories at the top of the falls.
Later transfer back to Kampala via Masindi. You will be dropped off at an agreed location.