At the northern end of the Albertine Rift Valley, Murchison Falls National Park lies in a park bisected by the Victoria Nile. This is also Uganda’s oldest conservation area- since 1926- and is a refuge for 76 species of mammals like giraffes, buffaloes, as well as Nile crocodiles and 451 birds. The thundering cascade of water reaches 148 feet tall and then flows quietly across the rift valley floor into Lake Albert.