{"id":249,"date":"2017-09-29T10:17:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T07:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel256.com\/safari-news\/?p=249"},"modified":"2017-09-29T10:17:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T07:17:41","slug":"the-must-visit-top-of-falls-in-murchison-falls-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travel256.com\/safari-news\/2017\/09\/the-must-visit-top-of-falls-in-murchison-falls-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"The Must Visit Top of Falls in Murchison Falls National Park."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top of the Murchison Falls<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once described as the most spectacular thing to happen on the Nile along its 6700km length, the 50m-wide river is squeezed through a 6m narrow gap in the rock and crashes through this narrow gorge with unbelievable power.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-250\" src=\"http:\/\/travel256.com\/safari-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/murchison_falls_top.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.travel256.com\/safari-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/murchison_falls_top.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.travel256.com\/safari-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/murchison_falls_top-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.travel256.com\/safari-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/murchison_falls_top-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>The 45m waterfall was featured in the Kathrine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart film <em>The African Queen<\/em>. Murchison Falls was even stronger back then, but in 1962 massive floods cut a second channel creating the smaller Uhuru Falls 200m to the north.<\/p>\n<p>There is a beautiful walking trail from the top down the river, and the upper stretch of the path offers views of the Uhuru Falls, which a boat trip will not bring you close enough to appreciate.<\/p>\n<p>If you take a launch trip in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travel256.com\/uganda-safaris\/3-days-murchison-falls-safari.html\">Murchison Falls<\/a> to the bottom of the falls, the captain will let you off the trailhead and meet the ranger there.<\/p>\n<p>This is also a goo way for campers to get to the campsite at the top of the falls before returning to Paraa the next morning.<\/p>\n<p>Contact us today to customize your Murchison Falls <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travel256.com\">Safari Tour in Uganda<\/a>. Send us an inquiry via <a href=\"mailto:info@travel256.com\"><strong>info@travel256.com<\/strong><\/a> or call <strong>+256701367970<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top of the Murchison Falls Once described as the most spectacular thing to happen on the Nile along its 6700km length, the 50m-wide river is squeezed through a 6m narrow gap in the rock and crashes through this narrow gorge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[84,231,83,78,230,229,232],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uganda-safaris-and-tours","category-uganda-wildlife-safaris","tag-boat-trip","tag-camping-trip","tag-launch-trip","tag-murchison-falls","tag-murchison-falls-tour","tag-top-of-the-falls","tag-uhuru-falls"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travel256.com\/safari-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travel256.com\/safari-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travel256.com\/safari-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travel256.com\/safari-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travel256.com\/safari-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.travel256.com\/safari-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/www.travel256.com\/safari-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travel256.com\/safari-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travel256.com\/safari-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travel256.com\/safari-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travel256.com\/safari-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}