4 Days Murchison Falls Magical Safari

Detailed Itinerary:

Day 1: Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park En-route Ziwa Rhino Wildlife Ranch

Upon arrival at the airport, you will be received by our guide/driver who will brief you about your safari shortly before you embark on a drive to Murchison Falls National Park. You will have a stop-over at Ziwa Rhino Wildlife Ranch for a Rhino tracking experience, while here you enter the territory of the southern white rhinos on foot. Well-trained ranger guide will take you through the bush to where the rhinos are on the day of your visit. You will have the opportunity to watch these endangered, magnificent creatures in their natural habitat. As these rhinos are free to move around on 7000 hectares of land, it is often necessary to drive to the areas where the rhinos are, before taking the bush trek. This activity will take you about one and a half to two and a half hours depending on where the Rhinos were last seen. After an encounter, proceed to Murchison Falls National Park via Masindi town where you will have lunch en-route then drive out of town to Murchison Falls National Park on the way you will pass through thick Budongo forest and view some of the primates such as olive baboons, monkeys and some bird species. After clearance at the park gate, then proceed to the top of the falls a fantastic sight. Here the Nile, the longest river in the world, is forced through a narrow gap in the rock (only 7 meters wide), before ferociously plunging down into a frothing pool 43m below, later continuing with the drive to the Lodge arriving in the evening, relax, have. dinner and overnight.

DAY 2: Morning Game drive and Boat Trip – Murchison Falls National Park

Today after an early breakfast, you will depart for your game drive on the northern bank of the River Nile in your open-roof vehicle which will give you an excellent opportunity to view and photograph the diverse wildlife. Expect to see elephants, lions, cape buffalos, Rothchild’s giraffes, hartebeests, water bucks, oribis, bush bucks, Uganda kobs, hyenas, monkeys etc and if you are lucky enough, you will be able to see the leopards. Return to the lodge for lunch.

After lunch, go for a boat trip that starts in the afternoon, upstream the calm Victoria Nile to the base of the falls stopping just few meters from the ‘Devil’s Cauldron’, marvel at the schools of hippos, crocodiles and over the 17km stretch you may see elephants, waterbuck and Uganda Kobs. This is also the zone of many bird species like goliath herons, Egyptian geese, pelican bee-eaters, kingfisher, hornbills, cormorants and the rare shoebill storks. Later, return to your lodge and relax in the evening, have dinner and overnight at the lodge.

DAY 3: Mubaku Community & Evening game drive – Murchison Falls National Park

After breakfast you will go for a village walking tour to the nearby Mubaku community to have a life time experience as you get to see new people with different ways of life like cultural food, music and dance, dressing code, way of living and others later return to the lodge to have lunch as you relax and prepare to go for an evening game drive in the north part of the park were you will expect to see the buffaloes, lions, antelopes, hyenas, water bucks, giraffes, nocturnal like the night jars, owls, and others and if luck enough you will be able to see the leopards. Then return back to the lodge, have dinner and overnight at the lodge.

DAY 4: Chimpanzee Tracking & Transfer – Entebbe Airport

After your early morning breakfast, you will head out for an exciting and yet thrilling optional chimpanzee tracking experience in Budongo forest reserve, after an encounter you will drive out of the park and transfer to Entebbe airport with en-route lunch probably in Masindi then arriving in Entebbe in the evening.