This 6 Days Kidepo & Murchison Falls safari takes you to some of Uganda’s best savannah national parks found in the northern part of the country. Let’s dive in to the true African wilderness as we visit Kidepo Valley National Park, then continue to Murchison Falls National Park.
Day 1: Transfer to Kidepo Valley National Park
After your early breakfast from Kampala/ Entebbe, you will drive Northwards to Kidepo Valley National Park. You will go various towns like Masindi, Gulu and Kitgum before reach Karenga district.
Since it will be a long journey (12 hours), you will drive straight to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Accommodation: Kidepo Savannah Lodge
Meals: Lunch and Dinner
Day 2: Game drive in Kidepo valley National Park and community experience
After an early breakfast, you will drive to the Narus valley for the game drive where you will see a number of animals. The valley is home to a number of animals like the lions, elephants, Reedbucks, Jackson hartebeest, oribi, Klipspringer, buffaloes, zebras, kudus, Oryx, caracal, Bat eared fox, hyenas, Cheetahs, giraffe, bushbucks, water bucks, Uganda Kob, bush pig, side-striped jackals, warthogs, the dik-dik, among many others. You will continue to Kanangorok hot spring where you can see the Ostriches.
Later in the afternoon, you will have a cultural experience that will bring into contact with Karamojong peoples at Karenna and Kapedo. While there, you will meet up with the local elders and have an opportunity to interact with them and get to know the challenges they are facing as well as knowing the history of the place. They will show you the kraals, the grinding stones and many more interesting facts about the community.
Dinner and overnight stay.
Accommodation: Kidepo Savannah Lodge
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 3: Transfer from Kidepo Valley National Park to Murchison Falls National Park
On this day, you will have early breakfast and after you will transfer to Murchison falls National Park the northern part of Uganda via Kitgum and Gulu town.
The park is bisected by the Victoria Nile, which plunges 45m over the remnant rift valley wall, creating the dramatic Murchison Falls, the centrepiece of the park and the final event in an 80km stretch of rapids. The mighty cascade drains the last of the river’s energy, transforming it into a broad, placid stream that flows quietly across the rift valley floor into Lake Albert.
There are a lot of animals to see on your way to the lodge through the park such as elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, antelopes among many others.
We reach Fort Murchison just outside the park boundaries later in the afternoon. Here we will stay and with a cool drink and a fabulous view over the river Nile, the evening will help you relax from the long journey from Kidepo.
Dinner and overnight stay at the lodge.
Accommodation: Fort Murchison
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 4: Game drive and boat cruise
After an early morning cup of hot tea / coffee, you will leave for an early morning game drive looking for the early morning riser. As you head out for the game drive, you will be in position to spot animals like the buffaloes, elephants, lions, leopards, hyenas, Rothschild giraffes, Oribi, Kobs and waterbucks together with some bird species along the way with some feeding together with the big animals.
After you will head back for breakfast and rest at the lodge till lunch is served. In the afternoon you head for a Boat ride along the Victoria Nile to the bottom of the falls. This Boat ride on River Nile goes for 3 hours and you will be able to see some Nile crocodiles, numerous hippos, as well as various bird species. You will then return for dinner and the overnight at the lodge.
Accommodation: Fort Murchison
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 5: Top of the Falls visit, rhino tracking and transfer to Kampala
After a relaxed breakfast, you will check out of the lodge and drive to the top of the falls. While there, you will enjoy the spectacular view of the most powerful waterfall in the world, Murchison falls. Murchison Falls National Park runs on the Victoria Nile that connects to Lake Albert, in Northwestern Uganda. It’s originally known as Kabalega falls where water forces its way through a very narrow gorge of about 7 meters wild forming the world’s most powerful waterfalls, and a rainbow on a sunny day. In Every single second, the equivalent of 200 bathtubs full of water drops down through this narrow space. This experience a must see on your safari to Uganda.
After, you will head to Ziwa rhino sanctuary in Nakasongola District, near Nakitoma Village, where you will get a moment to track these beautiful animals. The white Rhinos became extinct in Uganda’s national parks in 1980, but conservationists and the government through Uganda wildlife authority took the few that had remained and transferred them to the sanctuary for better protection. There are about 32+ rhinos in the sanctuary at the moment and there is a plan to reintroduce them in Uganda’s game parks in the future.
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
End of 6 Days Kidepo & Murchison Falls