3 Days Murchison Falls Safari & Chimps Tracking Tour

Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary Uganda

You will be met by your 3 Days Murchison Falls Safari guide of the day at your hotel for a short briefing about your 3 Days Murchison Falls Safari overview and then drive 4-5 hours to Murchison Falls National Park. The journey will take you to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary to track both white and black Rhinos at the sanctuary. Rhinos were poached to extinction during the 1970’s but the government and other non-government organization are trying to restore them back. From Ziwa Rhino sanctuary, you will drive to Masindi for lunch before proceeding to Murchison Falls National Park with a visit to the  top of the falls. This will be evening so you will transfer to your overnight accommodation.

Meal plan: Lunch and Dinner

Drive time: 4-5 hours

Lodging: Bakers Lodge (Upmarket), Murchison River Lodge (Mid Range), Amaka Campsite (Budget)

Lions in Murchison Falls National Park

After breakfast, you will Drive to the  northern part of part of Murchison Falls National Park for your early morning game drive. This northern part of Murchison Falls National Park known as Paraa is rich in wild game that include lions, buffaloes, elephants, several antelopes, leopards and so much more. The delta region is also very rich with water animals such as hippos, crocodiles and the rare shoebill stock. At Murchison Falls National Park, it is nature that gives so the fact that wild animals graze and move naturally, seeing any animal will depend on your luck of the day. Afterword’s, you will drive back to your lodge for lunch and then head for the afternoon boat cruise to the base of the falls. This boat cruise to the base of the falls is seen as the highlight of all activities at Murchison Falls National Park since many water and land animals can be sighted. Expect to see lots of Buffaloes, elephants, crocodiles, many water birds as you cruise up stream to the base of the falls where water squeezes itself into a narrow gorge to later explode as it flows down words. Return to the lodge for overnight.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Lodging: Bakers Lodge (Upmarket), Murchison River Lodge (Mid-Range), Amaka Campsite (Budget)

Chimpanzee Tracking in Budongo Forest

This day after breakfast, we will go for a morning chimpanzee tracking in Kaniyo Pabidi Forest. This is an undisturbed area of natural forest within Budongo Forest Reserve with chimpanzee tracking as the most famous activity. You will certainly see many forest birds, including the white-thigh hornbill, chocolates-backed kingfisher and Puvel’s illadopsis found nowhere else in East Africa.

Afterwards, you will be transferred back to Kampala.

Drive time: 5-6 hour’s drive

Meal plan: Breakfast and Lunch