Murchison Falls Wildlife and Waterfall Safari

The drive north from Entebbe runs via Kampala’s Northern Bypass and the Kampala-Gulu highway, with a stop partway at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary — Uganda’s only place to see rhinos in the wild, southern white rhinos reintroduced after the species was hunted to local extinction here in the 1980s, tracked on foot with an armed ranger for a genuinely close, controlled encounter. From Ziwa it’s a further stretch north, crossing the Nile at Karuma Bridge to reach Murchison Falls by evening.

An early game drive across the park’s northern delta plains for lion, elephant, giraffe and buffalo while the morning light is best, then after lunch a boat cruise upriver along the Victoria Nile to the base of the falls, where the river forces through a gap barely seven metres wide before dropping 43 metres in a roar of spray, with hippo, crocodile and strong birdlife along the banks throughout.

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A short guided hike to the top of Murchison Falls for a dramatically different vantage looking straight down into the gorge, before breakfast back at the lodge and the return road transfer to Entebbe, timed against your onward flight.