Game Drive Tours in Murchison Falls National Park:Murchison falls national park covers a total area of 3,893 square kilometers and it is one of the most visited savannah national park in Uganda. The national park is situated in the northwestern part of Uganda and is a home of over 76 mammal species including buffaloes, elephants, waterbucks, Uganda kobs, giraffes, bushbucks, warthogs, lions, leopards, Jackson’s hartebeest, oribi, hyenas, primates like chimpanzees, black and white colobus monkeys, red tailed monkeys, olive baboons and over 451 bird species.
Game Drive Tours in Murchison Falls National Park.
Game drive tours in Murchison Falls National Park are conducted in comfortable 4WD pop up safari vehicles with a competent driving guide who is familiar with various wildlife routes. Game drives at Murchison Falls National Park are best done in the park’s northern section and may be done either extremely early in the morning when animals are more active or late in the evening when animals are returning to their resting spots.
During the day game drive tours in this wildlife rich savannah park, you will follow different game tracks such as Albert, Victoria, Buligi game tracks, Pakuba track, Queens track, Te’bito track and Honeymoon track where you will be able to view different animals like elephants, buffaloes, Uganda kobs, waterbucks, warthogs, Jackson’s hartebeest, oribi, view predators like lions, leopards, hyenas and different bird species including bee-eaters, Egyptian plover among others.
The national park also provides night game drives, during which you may explore the park at night in search of nocturnal creatures that become active at night. At roughly 7:00 p.m., a night wildlife drive safari in Murchison Falls National Park is conducted with an armed ranger guide and spotlight torches for clear observation of nocturnal creatures. During the 2 to 3-hour night game drive, you will be able to see nocturnal species such as lions, leopards, nightjars, bush babies, porcupines, genets, civets, hyenas, and observe hippos grazing, among other things.
