Worth knowing
Murchison combines a major waterfall, a Nile boat and a savanna safari in one park — it rewards two or three days to do all three, rather than a rushed single night.
The world's longest river forced through a seven-metre gap — reached by boat, and walkable to the top.
Elephant, lion, buffalo, Rothschild's giraffe and kob on the plains north of the river.
The Nile delta where it meets Lake Albert — superb birding and a top spot for the shoebill.
Murchison combines a major waterfall, a Nile boat and a savanna safari in one park — it rewards two or three days to do all three, rather than a rushed single night.
Murchison sits over part of Uganda's Albertine Rift oil reserves, and development — roads, wells, a planned pipeline — has brought real tension between energy and conservation to the park's edges. It is one of the sharpest such conflicts in East Africa.
The park recovered impressively from the heavy poaching of past decades, and its wildlife — the Rothschild's giraffe especially — is a conservation success now navigating a new kind of pressure.
We give Murchison the two or three days it needs — the falls boat, the delta and the savanna game — rather than treating the falls as a quick photo stop.
A Nile cruise to the foot of the falls, with hippo, croc and elephant on the banks.
The northern plains for lion, elephant, buffalo and Rothschild's giraffe.
A downstream boat for the delta's birds and a chance at the shoebill.
We secure the gorilla, chimp and park permits directly and early — the scarce thing everything else hangs on — so your trek is locked in, not left to chance.
Murchison is vast and split by the Nile, with the falls, the game plains and the delta in different parts. We base you to reach all three and route the days so nothing is rushed.
Our guides and the park rangers work the forest and the plains for real encounters — they would rather earn you one great sighting than rush a list.
A polished safari lodge, by the Nile for the falls and the game.
A polished safari lodge, by the Nile for the falls and the game.
Murchison combines a thunderous waterfall, a Nile boat and big-game savanna in Uganda's largest park. We build it into the route with the forests and Queen Elizabeth.
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