By ChicaMod.com
Nestled in the North Western part of Uganda overlooking the magnificent River Nile as it journeys from Lake Victoria grandiosely pouring into the Mediterranean Sea and sitting adjacent to one of the world’s most powerful flows of natural water the majestic Murchison Falls is Paraa Lodge – the Jewel of the Nile
Paraa Safari Lodge established in 1954 is situated in the Murchison Falls conservation area, Uganda’s largest protected area (5072 Km2). In the past, the park has contained huge numbers of wildlife; unfortunately these large numbers resulted into environmental imbalance. Today's wildlife population is far smaller but their population density is more in balance with the limited amount of resources available to them.
The Basics:
· Murchison Falls flows over the fading escarpment at the northern most tip of Africa's Western Rift Valley, a 3000km tectonic trench that has opened up between Lake Malawi and northern Uganda during the last twelve million years.
· Sir Roderick Murchison a famous geologist ─the best of his time believed sub-Saharan Africa to be a geologically dull continent in which nothing of interest had occurred for hundreds of millions of years. Murchison Falls, and the rift valley into which it plunges, proved him wrong.
· United States President Theodore Roosevelt visited Murchison Falls National Park in 1909 during the most lavish hunting safari of all time, by today's rates, cost US$1.8m! During his year-long tour of East Africa, Roosevelt collected wildlife specimens for the Smithsonian Institute traveling home with 4900 mammals, 4000 birds, 2000 reptiles and 500 specimens including 5 Northern White Rhino, 8 Elephants, 10 Uganda Kob and a Shoebill Stalk.
See a few images from this marvel below. To visit this splendid area and to stay at the lodge–>Paraa Lodge
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