Day 1 – ARRIVE & OVERNIGHT AT ENTEBBE
Arrive at Entebbe International
Airport where you will meet your Safari Driver Guide for a warm welcome and
transfer to your Kampala Hotel. He will also brief you on your
safari ahead of time and advise if best to change monies. Overnight at your
Kampala Hotel on a bed and breakfast basis.
Budget – Hotel Africana
Mid-Range – Protea Hotel Kampala by Marriot
High End – Kampala Serena Hotel.
Day 2 – DRIVE from KAMPALA to MURCHISON FALLS NP - 282kms / about 5hrs
Leave Kampala and head
north for the largest National Park in Uganda – Murchison Falls Park. The
drive takes about 5 hours from Kampala via the Masindi route, but the trip is well
worth the drive. There are lots to see as you head north through towns
such as Luweero, and Masindi with local communities busy with their daily life
activities of farming, and roadside vendors selling their food and drinks. All these scenic routes will keep you awake all the way. Arrive and check into
your rooms and have lunch. In the late afternoon, set off for the first game drive
anticipating seeing lions, elephants, giraffes, antelopes of all types,
warthogs, and buffaloes. There are also many Savanna Birds that you will come
across. The vehicle has a pop-up roof so that you can stand and take better
pictures. The windows are not closed and open widely. Your Driver- Guide and a
Uganda Wildlife Ranger will point out the animals to ensure you do not miss any
on your viewing drives.
Budget – Fort Murchison FB
Mid-Range – Twiga Safari Lodge FB
High End – Paraa Safari Lodge
Day 3 – GAME VIEWING DRIVE including a BOAT SFARI CRUISE on the NILE RIVER
Early morning breakfast and set off for an early
morning game drive across the savanna, along Lake Albert Delta, abundant
wildlife as you move slowly as the sun rises waking up the lying animals.
What you experience here cannot be replicated anywhere else in the world, this
is Murchison Falls Park with its birds, lions, leopards, elephants, hippos,
buffaloes, warthogs, giraffes, and humorous appearing warthogs. The only park in
Uganda where you can be lucky to find the Big 5!!. Return to the lodge
for lunch and thereafter get
ready to experience one of the best highlights of your Murchison Falls National
Park Safari, - the boat safari cruise
up the Nile River. Slowly moving along the river bank viewing crocodiles and an abundance of hippos, elephants, buffaloes, and antelopes, lots of birds
including the fish eagle, storks and so much more. The boat moves gently up the
river and stays on the left-hand side so that you see most of the animals who
come to the river. Herds of Elephants cooling off, Hippopotamus
frolicking, crocodiles just dozing in the African sun. Soon after you find - Murchison
Falls – the most powerful waterfall in the World. The River Nile
is 50 meters wide above the falls, but suddenly moves down through a 6-meter
gorge and falls 43 meters, the sound is deafening and the sight
makes one realize how forceful nature can be. Close by, there is a bank on
the river filled with Nile crocodiles basking in the afternoon sun, just down
from there you can see a group of hippos frolicking in the water of the
Nile. There are hundreds of hippopotamus to be found here, birds
in abundance. At the bottom of the falls
disembark and take the guided hike up along the most
powerful waterfall in the world – Murchison Falls. You will be
cooled down with some mist from the falls to keep you comfortable. This is the same up and down the trail that Winston Churchill
used in 1907 when he visited the Falls.
At the top of the falls, you are met by your driver-guide and you will cross the Nile by ferry and head back for dinner and
overnight at either;
Budget – Fort
Murchiosn FB
Mid-Range – Twiga Safari Lodge
FB
High End – Paraa Safari Lodge FB
Day 4 –
Murchison Falls Park – Return to Kampala City: - 282kms / approx 5hrs
Another early morning
and the last game drive with the Uganda Wildlife Authority ranger and each game drive
is uniquely different. After the game drive, we cross the Nile by
ferry and we head for Masindi where stop at the Masindi Hotel, the hotel was
built in 1923 and is the oldest hotel in Uganda. It is here where Humphrey
Bogart and Katherine Hepburn stayed while making “The African Queen”.
Have lunch and continue afterward to Kampala stopping first at Ziwa
Rhino Sanctuary. With a Ranger
you will go on foot for a Rhino Trek - this is about 1.5 hours long and you
come into proximity with the Rhinos. Thereafter
proceed on to Entebbe Int’l Airport for your evening departure flight.
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