Murchison Falls wildlife is amazingly interesting for all travelers that visit Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda. The Nile itself hosts one of Africa’s densest population of hippopotamuses and the Nile crocodile. There is a dazzling variety of water bird species including the world’s most accessible wild population of the rare shoebill stork. In the southeast, Rabongo forest is home to chimps and other rainforest creatures.
Murchison Falls National Park, with its variety of vegetation ranging from riparian forests and swamp lands to broad Savannah woodlands, provides a greater opportunity of seeing a wide variety of wildlife. Some of Murchison Falls wildlife animals found in this park include the big five and large mammals. So, don’t miss to see lions, leopards, elephants, hippos, Rothschild’s giraffes, Cape buffaloes, hartebeests, oribis, warthogs, and Uganda Kobs among others.
Uganda’s largest and most spectacular national park in Uganda and indeed in the whole of Africa derives its name from the dramatic Murchison Falls. This is where the world’s longest river explodes through a narrow cleft and flows down, to become a placid river. The banks of the Nile are thronged with hippos, crocodiles, waterbucks and buffaloes, while protecting a chunk of untamed African savannah bisected by the mighty river Nile.
More about Murchison Falls National Park and its wildlife.
Murchison Falls National Park being the largest in Uganda, is bisected by the Nile into two sections: the northern and southern sections. The river that flows over the western rift valley escarpment, created a buffer for poachers that made the northern section rich in Murchison Falls wildlife.
The Park lies at the northern end of the Albertine Rift Valley, where the bulky Bunyoro escarpment merges into the vast plains of Acholi land. This also include the adjoining Karuma and Bugungu Wildlife Reserves
Murchison Falls has for many years received notable foreign visitors including Sir Winston Churchill who hiked, boated and bicycled up the Nile corridor to the Falls. Humphrey Bogart in John Huston’s movie ‘The African Queen’ and the happiest was Ernest Hemingway whose intention was simply to over fly the waterfalls.
In Uganda, there are other national parks where visitors can spare time to check on amazing wildlife safari experiences. These include Queen Elizabeth National Park in western Uganda, which is famous for the tree-climbing lions and Kidepo Valley National Park which is far north-east, on Uganda-Sudan border. Don’t miss the authentic amazing gorilla trekking safaris in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park..