This 3-day flying Murchison Falls safari is suitable for visitors who wish not to spend long hours on the road. The 3-day flying Murchison Falls safari provides the quickest and fantastic way to enjoy and explore Murchison Falls National Park.
This wildlife safari to Murchison Falls National Park will begin with a flight from Entebbe at 12:30 pm arriving at 13:30 pm. That’s just one hour to Murchison Falls, for the best wild game experience on a safari game drive and a boat safari downstream Nile River. You will then fly back to Entebbe ready to make a connection with your international flight as you end an amazing Uganda wildlife safari to Murchison Falls.
3 Days Flying Murchison Falls Safari Itinerary: –
Day 1: Entebbe – Fly to Murchison Falls
Our guide picks you up from your hotel or place of residence in Entebbe or Kampala ready for a transfer to Entebbe International Airport to catch up with your safari flight to Pakuba Airstrip in Murchison Falls National Park. The flight departs Entebbe at 12:30 pm before arriving at Pakuba or Bugungu Airstrip at 13:30 pm.
You will enjoy the aerial views of Murchison Falls National Park before arriving. Then you will be transferred to your waiting safari land cruiser for a mini en-route game drive to your safari lodge, for an evening relaxation and sightseeing around your lodge.
Overnight stay and dinner at Bakers’ Lodge Murchison or Paraa Safari Lodge (high-end). Meal plan breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day 2: Murchison Falls
Begin the day with a cup of African coffee, and then proceed for a game drive in the park. Elephants, Cape buffaloes, Rothschild’s giraffes, Uganda kobs, hartebeest and waterbuck are common sightings. You may also spot oribis, bushbucks, Bohor reedbucks, bush duiker, warthogs and bush pigs. Large carnivores that include lions, leopards and spotted hyenas can also be spotted.
After lunch, you will go for a boat safari upstream the calm Victoria Nile to the base of Murchison Falls stopping just tens of meters from the “Devil’s Cauldron”. En-route, you will marvel at the toothsome hippos, crocodiles, elephants, waterbucks and kobs, over this 17 km stretch.
This is also a zone of many bird species such as Goliath heron, Egyptian goose, pelican bee-eater, kingfisher, hornbill, cormorants and the rare shoebill stork.
There, you will leave the boat and start your – quite heavy – hike to the top of the falls (for approx. 1 hour), to see where the world’s longest river explodes violently through a narrow cleft in the Rift Valley escarpment, to plunge into a frothing pool of about 43m below. Your driver/guide will be waiting for you to bring you back to the lodge.
Overnight stay and dinner at Bakers’ Lodge Murchison or Paraa Safari Lodge (high-end). Meal plan breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day 3: Fly from Murchison Falls – Entebbe Out
Wake up at 6:00 am prepared for a second game drive for more wildlife especially those that you could have missed on the previous day. You will thereafter be transferred to Pakuba Airstrip for your flight back to Entebbe. The flight departs at 13:45 pm arriving at 16:30 pm with an early lunch in Murchison Falls. Upon arriving at Entebbe, you will connect to your out bound flight back home or to your next destination. Meal plan breakfast and lunch.
3 Days Flying Murchison Falls Safari Inclusions:
- Airport transfers
- All ground Transportation by 4 WD safari Land Cruiser
- Full board accommodation as per the itinerary
- Hike to the top of the falls
- Return flights to Murchison falls national park
- Three hour boat trip along River Nile.
- Park fees
- Two Game drive
- Ferry crossing
- Driver/guide subsistence allowance.
- Enroute lunches
- Ranger guide fees
However, the package to exclude expenses of personal nature like drinks, laundry, tips, telephone, cigars, etc