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Murchison Falls National Park Uganda
The Buligi Circuit, the peninsula between the Victoria and Albert Niles, is stunningly beautiful and contains the highest concentration of wildlife including the tiny malachite kingfisher, carmine bee-eater, African fisheagle, saddlebill stork and the wahlheaded, or shoebill, Stork.
What Is Murchison Falls National Park Uganda
Uganda’s largest National Park.
How Big Is Murchison Falls National Park Uganda
The park is 3,840 sq km (2,386 sq mi).
Where Is Murchison Falls National Park Uganda
97 km (60 mi) north of Masindi, 354 km (220 mi) north of Kampala.
What Is To See In Murchison Falls National Park Uganda
The 40-m (131-ft) cascade of Murchison Falls is the highlight.
Murchison Falls National Park Uganda Worth A Splurge
Take a boat trip at the base of the roaring falls among the massive hippo population.
Murchison Falls National Park Uganda, Uganda’s largest, is bisected by the River Nile. Animals such as buffaloes, antelopea, Rothschild’s giraffes and elephants lurk by the rivers of the north-western savannas of the park, while the dense rainforests in the south-west host large groups of chimpanzees, vervet monkeys and olive baboons as well as red-tailed and patas monkeys.
Murchison Falls National Park Uganda
The Buligi Circuit, the peninsula between the Victoria and Albert Niles, is stunningly beautiful and contains the highest concentration of wildlife including the tiny malachite kingfisher, carmine bee-eater, African fisheagle, saddlebill stork and the wahlheaded, or shoebill, Stork.
Take an afternoon and trek through the grassland, woodland and papyrus swamps, catching glimpses of the buffaloes, with their sentinel cattle egrets, grazing among Borassus palms north of the Victoria Nile.
Undoubtedly the highlight of the park is the roaring Murchison Falls, best enjoyed by boat. Here the Nile falls vertically 40 m (131 ft) through a 7-m (23-ft) gap crashing into the river below. From your river cruise you can watch, and listen to, hundreds of hippos wallowing along the shores, keeping the many Nile crocodiles company. If you perfer, the falls can be enjoyed from a path leading from above the falls to where the water crashes below.
Below the southern bank of the falls, thousands of bats can be seen roosting on the aptly named ‘Bat Cliffs’, swarming like large ravens at feeding time in the late evening. Giant kingfishers perch on low branches alongside Pel’s fishing owls and pennant-winged nightjars fly among herds of Uganda kobs and Jackson’s hartebeests.
Murchison Falls National Park Uganda is certainly an adventure not to be missed.
Undoubtedly the highlight of the park is the roaring Murchison Falls, best enjoyed by boat. Here the Nile falls vertically 40 m (131 ft) through a 7-m (23-ft) gap crashing into the river below. From your river cruise you can watch, and listen to, hundreds of hippos wallowing along the shores, keeping the many Nile crocodiles company. If you perfer, the falls can be enjoyed from a path leading from above the falls to where the water crashes below.
Below the southern bank of the falls, thousands of bats can be seen roosting on the aptly named ‘Bat Cliffs’, swarming like large ravens at feeding time in the late evening. Giant kingfishers perch on low branches alongside Pel’s fishing owls and pennant-winged nightjars fly among herds of Uganda kobs and Jackson’s hartebeests.
Murchison Falls National Park Uganda is certainly an adventure not to be missed.
What Is Murchison Falls National Park Uganda
Uganda’s largest National Park.
How Big Is Murchison Falls National Park Uganda
The park is 3,840 sq km (2,386 sq mi).
Where Is Murchison Falls National Park Uganda
97 km (60 mi) north of Masindi, 354 km (220 mi) north of Kampala.
What Is To See In Murchison Falls National Park Uganda
The 40-m (131-ft) cascade of Murchison Falls is the highlight.
Murchison Falls National Park Uganda Worth A Splurge
Take a boat trip at the base of the roaring falls among the massive hippo population.
