We're as excited as you are to get started on your Ugandan  safari. After an introduction to your guide and a few brief  formalities, it's time to get out there and find the animals for  which Uganda is so famous.  The main reason people visit Murchison Falls National Park is to see the spectacular namesake waterfall formed by the Nile as it explodes through a narrow cleft in the Rift Valley escarpment. But Uganda’s largest national park is also a highly rewarding safari destination, whether you're hoping for dramatic encounters with the Big Five (all but one of which, rhino, is present) or more interested in spotting local specialties such as the endangered Rothschild’s giraffe, the spindly-limbed patas monkey, or the dashingly colorful red throated bee-eater and white-crested turaco