Murchison Falls National Park

Murchison Falls is Uganda's largest national park, bisected by the Nile as it squeezes through a 7-metre rock cleft and drops 43 metres in the most powerful waterfall on the river's entire course. Boat safaris from Paraa up the Victoria Nile to the base of the falls pass dense concentrations of hippopotami, Nile crocodiles, and shoebill storks in the papyrus swamps. The surrounding savanna supports lions, elephants, buffaloes, and large giraffe herds — Uganda's subspecies being the Rothschild's or Nubian giraffe.