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Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda Murchison Falls National Park lies in north-western Uganda around the White Nile and east of Lake Albert and is the country's biggest national park. Over a hundred years ago, the area's inhabitants had to leave because of the sleeping sickness spread by tse-tse flies. In the 1950s, the area was declared a national park and in the 1960s it was one of the most-visited parks in East Africa. In 1954, Ernest Hemingway flew over the park and his plane crashed; it was the first of two consecutive plain crashes in Africa he survived. How to Get to Murchison Falls National Park Red Chilli Hideaway   in Kampala has very good offers for three days/two nights safaris to Murchison Falls National Park. More expensive options include chimp and rhino tracking, but we booked the cheapest safari since we were mainly interested in seeing the falls. The drive to the national park took ages (getting out of Kampala was the hardest part - the city is famous for ...

Uganda There are travelers who like buses, there are travelers who take buses to save money, and then there's us. We'd love to save money but after more than a year of traveling, we just don't have the stamina and patience for long bus rides anymore. How to Get to Sipi Falls The nice lady at our guesthouse in Entebbe organized a taxi for us to go to Sipi Falls. The only thing was, she didn't know where Sipi was. Nor did the driver. They only knew it was "near" the town of Mbale (actually it's 70 km from Mbale). Our driver, who drove an airport taxi, probably had never been too far away from Kampala and had no idea where he was going. From Kampala, there are two ways to go to Sipi: a long and a short way. Our driver took the long way. He got a speeding ticket and almost drove to the Kenyan border (twice). By 6 pm we arrived at the turnoff to Sipi and it was clearly the driver's first time driving in the mountains. Despite his frequent complaints (where ...