Murchison Falls on River Nile

LOCATION

Murchison fall is located in the Murchison national park, Albert rift valley in Northern Uganda East Africa. These falls are as a result of the Victoria Nile (part of River Nile which is the longest river in the whole world with 4,132 miles / 6,650km) falling over the western rift valley escarpment with its source in Uganda and pouring into the Mediterranean Sea in Egypt, Northern Africa. It flows from central Africa northward through north-eastern Africa to the Mediterranean Sea and has three principal streams. The Blue, Albert and White Nile

HISTORY OF THE FALLS

Formally locally known as the Kabalega falls, An English traveller named Sir Samuel White Baker visited the falls in the mid-1860s and named it THE MURCHISON FALLS after Sir Roderick Impey Murchison who was a Scottish geologist and served as the director general of the British geological survey from 1855 until his death in 1871.

THE WILD

An occasion at the Murchison falls assures you and your guests of many adventure activities including a Game drive in the Murchison national park and Boat cruise along the river Nile with many animal species like Elephants, Giraffes, Leopards, Lions, Buffalos, Aardvark, Pangolin, Lynxes, Oribi, Patas monkey and the Ugandan Kob which live in the savannah grassland, Acacia trees and brass palms of the Northern side of the River Nile till the Albert Nile and Lake Albert

FOREST AND NATURE

The Southern part of the river Nile is endowed with the tropical forests with large canopy trees like the famous mahogany trees, with water streams, climbing chimpanzees and red-tailed monkeys, black and white colobus, blue monkeys, olive baboons and the night primate species hence nature walk and hiking activities. The Budongo forest is gifted with over 360 bird species like the puvelie illadopsis, chocolate backed king fisher, black headed paradise fly catcher, lemon billed gromec, and grey long bill, little green sun bird and the black headed oride giving our guests a chance to bird watch.