Explore Murchison falls national park, Murchison falls national park where first gazetted as a game reserve 1926 and letter in 1952 transforms as a national park, is the oldest and the biggest conservation area in Uganda. It has unique features like the sceneries is beautiful, the wildlife species and the bird species. The park covers an area of 5072skm this contains Murchison falls covers a distance of 3893skm, it has 76 different mammals species including rare one and noctonius like pangolin, animals such as elephants, buffaloes, warthogs antelopes like Uganda kob, waterbuck , oribi, Jacksons hartebeest , giraffes and 461 bird species such as pied kingfisher, fish eagle, plovers, shoebill stork, vultures , bee-eaters and many other savanna birds, migratory birds, water birds.
The park is given the named by sir Samuel baker , named the roaring falls in honor of the president of Royal Geographical Society, SIR FREDRICK MURCHISON in 1864.
Game drive in Murchison falls national park is done in either morning when the animals are very active and in the evening when the animals are coming back to there hiding place for night, on the game drive you have a chance of spotting the cat family like the lions, leopards, hyenas, jackals, elephants, buffaloes, giraffes, Uganda kob the country’s national animal, waterbuck, oribi, Jackson’s hartebeest, warthogs and bird species like bustard, bishops, saddle stork, moosebird, starling, woodpeckers, palm-nut vulture, lapwing among others.
Boat cruise is also anther activity done Murchison falls national park where the boat starts at Para to the bottom of the fall or to the delta where you will spot crocodiles, hippos, Nile monitor lizard, birds species like bee-eaters, kingfishers, fish eagles other wildlife come to the shores of the River to cool them selves.
You can trek rhinos in the wild where you visit Murchison falls, since the rhino where hunted and killed in 70s and 80s, rhinos the country having them in ziwa rhino sanctuary along to the Murchison falls national park where you have a stop for them then you proceed to the park after trek them on foot here is 100% you see them in their habitant.
When you visit Murchison falls you will also trek chimps in Budongo forest, in Budongo forest is the place in Murchison falls where you can trek our relative since we share 96.6% DNA with the chimps, the trekking will take 40 minutes to 4 hours depending the movement of the chimps because the creatures moving from one place to another looking for food. Once find them you will be allowed to spend one hour with , learn how they eat, they pray their life style, take photo’s and record videos for the memory.
Nature walks / Hiking to the top of the falls; this is also amazing in the Murchison falls national park; nature walk and the hiking is done in sir Samuel bakers trail, here you will be able to see the view of river after the falls , even see the most powerful water in the world, the two falls will be seen one is Murchison falls and the second is independence falls which appears in 1962 after to much floods in the same year Uganda got its independence. Murchison falls is 7metres wide and 45metres deep while the independence falls is reaching the size of 12metres to 15metres wide, its rear to miss the rainbow on the top of the falls.
Shortest serving bridge; Murchison falls is the has been with the shortest bridge which is 9metres wide and it is lasted for only 8 year and swept away by floods in 1961 and 1962 yet was the bridge connecting northern Uganda region to other region Mirama hills safaris well comes you to explore the powerful water fall in the world