Murchison Falls National Park

First gazetted in 1926, Murchison Fall National Park s is Uganda’s largest national park and oldest conservation area lying at the northern tip of the Albertine rift valley home to 76 species and 451 birds. The park is divided by the Victoria Nile which flows down to Lake Albert. In 1862, early European explorers John Speke and James Grant were among the first to visit the park followed by Samuel and his wife Florence Baker in 1863-4. Samuel baker named the falls in honour Roderick Murchison then president of the Royal Geographical Society, and the park was subsequently named after the falls. The falls was featured in the Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart film The African Queen Other notable visitors include British Royals, Ernest Hemmingway, Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt.

For avid anglers, sport fishing in Murchison falls national park can be done either boat or on the banks of the river. The bottom of the falls has proved itself for being the best site to catch the Nile perch from highly oxygenated waters. This fishing site has attracted world famous anglers including Jeremy Wade, John Dennis Wilson Zeb Hogan. The record  was 113kg at the water gauge opposite the crocodile and the largest cat-fish caught was 45kg near Nyamusika cliffs.