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Murchison Falls National Park is Uganda’s largest and oldest protected area, covering 3,840 square kilometres of savannah, woodland and riverine forest in the northwest of the country. The park’s defining feature is Murchison Falls itself, where the entire volume of the Victoria Nile is forced through a narrow seven metre cleft in the rocks before plunging 43 metres into a churning pool below. The falls are considered the most powerful waterfall on earth by volume of water passing through such a narrow gap. Game drives on the northern bank offer sightings of lions, leopards, elephants, giraffes and large buffalo herds. Boat cruises along the Nile to the base of the falls are among the finest wildlife experiences in Uganda, with hippos, crocodiles and over 450 bird species lining the river banks. Budongo Forest on the park’s southern edge adds chimpanzee tracking to a destination that already has everything.