4-Day Murchison Falls Safari

Today's route brings together Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary — walking rhino tracking and Optional sunset falls hike. Travel north stopping at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for a walking rhino tracking experience — the only place in Uganda to see wild rhinos. Walk through the sanctuary's open grassland with armed rangers, tracking the Southern white rhinos on foot until you're just meters away from these magnificent prehistoric-looking animals. Travel onward to Murchison Falls National Park arriving in the late afternoon. Settle into your safari lodge overlooking the Nile. Optional sunset hike to the top of the falls for your first glimpse of this natural wonder.

• Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary — walking rhino tracking
• Optional sunset falls hike

Expect the day to center on Northern bank game drive and 3-hour Nile boat cruise. Early morning game drive on the northern bank of the Victoria Nile. The vast savannah stretches to the horizon, dotted with Rothschild's giraffe, elephant herds, lion prides, buffalo, Uganda kob, Jackson's hartebeest, and oribi. Following lunch, embark on a 3-hour boat cruise upstream toward the base of Murchison Falls. The Nile teems with hippos — pods of 20 or more wallowing in the shallows — massive Nile crocodiles basking on the banks, and an extraordinary diversity of waterbirds including African fish eagles, goliath herons, pied kingfishers, and the rare shoebill stork. As you approach the falls, feel the spray on your face and hear the thundering roar before the dramatic cascade comes into view.

• Northern bank game drive
• 3-hour Nile boat cruise
• Murchison Falls
• Shoebill stork

Day 3 is built around Delta birdwatching and Hippo viewing. Spend the day exploration with morning game drive in different sectors of the park. Afternoon visit to the Delta area where the Victoria Nile enters Lake Albert — excellent for birdwatching with pelicans, storks, and kingfishers in enormous numbers, and hippo viewing in the calm delta waters. Optional chimpanzee tracking in Budongo Forest (additional fee) — one of Uganda's best chimp habitats where habituated chimpanzee communities have been studied for decades, offering excellent viewing opportunities.

• Delta birdwatching
• Hippo viewing
• Optional Budongo Forest chimpanzee tracking

The focus today is Optional top-of-falls hike and Final wildlife-viewing opportunity. Final morning activity — choose between a short game drive for last wildlife encounters or a hike to the top of Murchison Falls for the wide view looking down into the thundering chasm where 300 cubic meters of water per second forces through the narrow rock gap, creating a permanent rainbow in the spray. Following breakfast, drive back to Entebbe arriving by evening. Transfer to airport or hotel.

• Optional top-of-falls hike
• Final wildlife sightings