Murchison Falls National Park is Uganda's largest national park which protects a chunk of untamed African savannah bisected by the mighty river Nile. It is approximately 3840 sq km and situated in the north west approximately 90km from Masindi. 

 

Getting to Murchison Falls National Park is a long day's drive from Kampala and it is probably advisable to stop over in Masindi.

It is named for the dramatic Murchison Falls, where the world's longest river explodes violently through a narrow cleft in the Rift Valley escarpment to plunge into a frothing pool 43m below.

 

Wildlife populations have largely recovered from the poaching of the 1980s; in the lush borassus grassland to the north of the Nile, elephant, buffalo, giraffe and a variety of antelope are regularly encountered on game drives, while lion are seen with increasing frequency.

In the southeast, Rabongo Forest is home to chimps and other rainforest creatures.

The Nile itself hosts one of Africa's densest hippo and crocodile populations, and a dazzling variety of waterbirds including the world's most accessible wild population of the rare shoebill stork.