3 Day Murchison Falls Tour
Highlights
- Game drives
- Rhino tacking
- Boat cruise
Overview
Our 3 days Murchison Falls Wildlife Safari tour Package is one of the most sought after tour packages by visitors to Uganda. Murchison Falls National Park is one of the best places to visit during a Uganda Wildlife Safari. This three day Uganda safari will give you enough time to see all that the great Murchison Falls national park has to offer – including a safari to spot four of the big 5 (You will see the fifth at the Ziwa Rhino sanctuary along the way to the park) and the boat cruise.
Day 1: Travel to Murchison Falls – Stopover at the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary
Day 2: Game drive, Launch cruise along the river Nile and Hiking to the top of the falls.
Day 3: Morning Game drive – Return to Kampala
- Day 1 - Travel to Murchison Falls – Stopover at the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary
After your breakfast, a guide from Mond Safaris Uganda will pick you up from your hotel. The guide will brief you and share with you other vital information about your Uganda safari. You will then begin your 6 hour journey to Murchison falls national park. Along the way, as you are about to reach Murchison falls, you will stop-over and branch to track black and white Rhino at the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary. Rhinoceros are among the big 5 and due to heavy poaching had disappeared from Uganda since the early 1980s. The sanctuary was set up in 2005 to breed and later introduce Rhinos to Uganda’s major game parks. You will then head to Masindi district for lunch then to the Murchison Falls National Park to check in at your hotel.
Meal plan: Lunch & Dinner
Accommodation: Redchilli Rest Camp - Day 2 - Game drive, Launch cruise along the river Nile and Hiking to the top of the falls.
The day begins with early breakfast. You will be taken for your first morning game drive where you will finally see the parks great Savannah grasslands and overlooking Budongo forest. You will also see several mammals including warthogs, antelope, lions, hyenas, giraffes and primates among others. You will then head back to your lodge to have lunch, freshen up and prepare for the mega launch cruise.
While on the cruise, be prepared to spot more than 200 bird species, Nile crocodiles, hippos, monitor lizards, elephants and many of the animals seen during your early morning safari drinking along the river Nile shores. The boat slowly takes you up to the foot of the Murchison falls were you will climb to the top of the falls. You will be awestruck by these great falls with wonderful surrounding vegetation. The water from the falls generates mist which has colors of the rainbow. After these activities, our guide will pick you up and take you back to your lodge.
Meal Plan: All meals
Accommodation: Redchilli Rest Camp - Day 3 - Morning Game drive – Return to Kampala
Wake You will get up early to a sumptuous breakfast and then go for another game drive in a different sector of the park. The game drive marks the end of your Murchison falls safari. You will start the 6 hour journey back to Kampala. Your safari will be crowned with lunch en route from where you will continue to Kampala/ Entebbe.
- All Park entrance fees (for non-residents)
- All activities (unless labeled as optional)
- Accommodation of 2 nights
- A professional English speaking driver/guide
- All transportation by 4x4 tourist Vehicle
- Meals (as specified in the day-by-day section]
- Roundtrip airport transfer
- Drinking water (on all days)
- International flights (from/to home)
- Covid-19 PCR tests
- Additional accommodation before and at end of the tour, if needed
- Personal items (souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
- Tips
- Laundry services
Important Information
NOTE:
1- we highly recommend travel insurance
2- The price of this tour is based on a single traveler but can be reduced if there is more than one traveler
3. This is a budget accommodation tour but can be upgraded for extra costs