Murchison Falls South wing verses North wing
Murchison Falls National Park is the largest national park among the ten, situated in the northwestern region covering an area of 3,789sq/km. Through the park the Victoria Nile dramatically pours to form the Murchison falls, and the Nile delta where Nile River separates with Lake Albert known to be the hub of the park wildlife.
The park covers 80kms of the Nile River and has one the highly populated world hippo pool, Murchison Falls Park is bisected into two sections and the two sectors have differing vegetation cover, the Murchison falls are known as the world most powerful falls and without Murchison falls there’s no Murchison Falls National Park.
The southern wing is characterized by savannah thicket vegetation and northern wing is characterized by both woodland and grassland inhabiting a number of wildlife. The Nile River separates the two sectors, the park has over 70 mammal species and about 400 different species of birds proposing one of the best wildlife safari adventures in Uganda and the Murchison falls is the complete big five trail if made possible to branch at Ziwa rhino sanctuary to track the Rhinos.
What to find in the southern wing
Hankering to sentry the world most powerful falls on top, trekking on the southern wing reaching on top is worthy and rewards with finest breathtaking as you fill the breeze and spray from the falls. Scrutiny at the rough and very speedy waters forcing into the narrow gorge of 7 meters wide.
While on boat cruise rewards with sightings of wildlife species including crocodiles, hippopotamus, monitor lizards among others as well several bird species. The cruising towards the falls on the southern wing takes for the hiking experience to the top of the falls, interacting with nature its really gifted by nature when hiking on the southern wing there different primate species including olive baboons, vervet monkey, black and white colobus among others.
The thickets and woodland savannah of the southern home of various bird species including water duiker, harmer kop, pied king fisher, goalie heron, Abyssinian ground horn bill, tilt bird species among others.
Sports fishing one of finest activities mostly done on the southern wing. The activity is a catch and release, at the amount of US$50 at any time can do your fishing safari adventures on the southern wing there several small islands where fishing is done. The most catch is the Nile perch weighing about 50kg and above.
The southern wing is the Budongo forest game reserve, one of the best chimpanzee trekking forests. The forest has habituated chimpanzee communities for tourists to track, the track is an early activity starting at 08:00hours enter the forest and start tracking the likely human relatives. The tracking may take about 30 minutes to 8 hours and a summit with the Chimps spend an hour in their presence watching them at the distance of 7 meters.
Northern wing of Murchison Falls National Park
Things that you can do when on the northern wing of Murchison falls National Park.
The most rewarding sector as far as wild games are concerned, the northern of Murchison falls national park wing has the highest concentration of wildlife including the big four elephants, buffalos, lions and leopards. One of the most recompensing activities in the northern section is game drive takes you to watching number of wildlife species including herds of oribs, Jackson’s heartbeast, kobs, bushbuck, giraffes and many other.
The park is the birding paradise inhabits quite a lot of bird species, the activity accompanied for the sighting on the game drive. With a birder experienced guide on a game drive you can be able to spot over 100 different bird species.
Visiting the delta of Nile River. The point where River Nile separate from Lake Albert (where the Albert Nile separates with the Victoria Nile) this can be either on a boat ride or on a game drive and encounter a number of wildlife including hippopotamus, crocodiles, quite a lot of bird species.
The spectacular balloon safari organized by Paara safari lodge that takes you to all parts of the park with unlimited spectacular aerial view of special and beautiful sceneries of savannah landscape, with no off tracks it’s the best rewarding when it comes to wildlife as it can reach where even cars cannot reach.
Camping at the delta
The real wild camping indoors the midst of plentiful biota, this means to travel with your camping materials get an armed ranger guide from the park office to protect against the would be aggressive mammals in the middle of the night. The delta is a concentration of many wildlife coming to draw water from the river banks.