This is Uganda’s largest National park. It’s palm-studded grassland supports dense populations of lion, buffalo, elephant and Uganda kob, together with the localised Rothschild’s giraffe and patas monkey.

Immense concentrations of hippos and birds can be observed from morning and afternoon launch trips along the Nile below the spectacular waterfall for which the park is named.

The park was initially known as Kabalega Falls because of the waterfalls of Victoria Nile that are forced through a narrow gap flowing Westward to Lake Albert. It was renamed Marchison Falls by the former president of the royal geographical society. It covers total area of 3,840 km.