Sunday, November 20, 2011

Murchison Falls National Park

Murchison Falls National Park is Uganda's largest national park and is composed of the Albertine Rift Valley and the Albert Nile, which flows through the middle of the park. The park earned its name from the approximately 120 feet of water that crash through a narrow gorge before gently flowing into Lake Albert. Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt visited the falls and parts of the Bogart/Hepburn classic, The African Queen, were filmed here. While trying to fly from Nairobi to the Congo, Hemingway crashed here. After being evacuated downstream, Hemingway's subsequent flight also crashed. 

Murchison (or Kabarega) Falls

The top of the falls










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