Pakuba Airfield in Murchison falls national park
Pakuba Airfield is a small airstrip located within Murchison falls national park in Uganda, serving as a convenient entry point for the tourists and travelers visiting the park.The airfield allows for the charter flights and small aircraft to land, providing a scenic and then efficient way to access the park’s diverse wildlife, stunning landscapes, and then iconic Murchison falls. Pakuba Airfield is strategically situated near the park’s headquarters and accommodations, enabling visitors to quickly and easily explore the park’s many attractions, including game drives, boat cruises and then hiking trails. By offering an alternative to road transfers, Pakuba Airfield enhances the overall safari experience, providing a faster and then more comfortable way to reach this incredible national park and enjoy its many wonders.

Pakuba Airfield is the perfect air transport that serves to Uganda’s largest national park that is famously known as Murchison falls national park in the northeastern part of Uganda. On a Uganda safari from Kampala to Murchison falls national park takes the tourists about 4 to 5 hours’ drive to access the park. Pakuba Airfield is protected and then managed by the Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda that receive the daily domestic flights from Uganda’s International landing site for both the departure and then arrivals. Entebbe International Airport and Kajjansi Airfield which are mainly used by the tourists to visit Murchison falls national park as well as serving and connecting Kidepo Valley national park, Bwindi impenetrable national park, Queen Elizabeth national park and among others.
Pakuba Airfield takes about 275 kilometers by air north-west of Entebbe International Airport known as country’s largest civilian and then military airport that is 15 kilometers northwest of Bugungu Airstrip and then 72 kilometers west of Chobe safari lodge airport, still located within Murchison falls national park.
How to reach Pakuba Airfield.
On a Uganda safari, you can board a domestic flight from Entebbe International Airport, you will board the Aero link Uganda that takes you to Pakuba Airfield to safari in Murchison falls national park. This is the best way to access Murchison falls national park through booking the domestic flight, Aero link Uganda, Eagles, Fly Uganda from Entebbe International Airport or from Kajjansi Airfield that takes you approximately one hour to reach Murchison falls national park. Air transport is the excellent and then fast means for the passengers who would not like the exhaustion of the road transport that takes you 5 to 6 hours from Kampala to Murchison falls national park. On the other side the road transport though it can be long but however it offers tourists with the rewarding and then stunning views of the country side including attractions like Ziwa Rhino sanctuary, Karuma falls and among many others that makes your safari intriguing.
Pakuba Airfield is most used by the domestic standard chartered flight for the visitors on Uganda wildlife luxurious safaris in order to access the park’s activities; and these include the game drives, bird watching, guided nature walks, boat cruise, visiting the community of Boomu Women’s group and get to interact with them, enjoying their songs and then dances and among many others. In order to have entire safari experience in Murchison falls national park, tourists should opt air transport to access the park’s premises fast that offers you the unforgettable safari memories.
Murchison falls national park.
Murchison falls national park is Uganda’s largest and then most rich with the best wildlife. The park was gazetted during 1952 as a game reserve and the same time as the game reserve. Murchison falls national park covers an area of about 3900 square kilometers that stretches to the Albertine rift valley up to Karuma falls. On a Uganda safari with African Vacation Safaris, Murchison falls national park is frequently visited national park because the park has the famous and the most powerful so called ‘’Murchison Falls’’ and the park is known as the home of the various over 76 mammals that includes lions, buffaloes, elephants, leopards, warthogs, giraffes, zebras, and among, without forgetting over 500 bird species like Ospreys, Denham’s bustards, Africa qualifinch, Malachite Kingfishers, Piapiac, red-throated bee-eaters, Goliath heron, Eastern grey plantation-eater, Yellow-footed flycatcher, Veracious and among many others. Murchison falls national park is a home to over 13 primate species that can be explored during the safari including chimpanzees, black and white colobus monkeys, Red monkeys, baboons, blue monkeys and among others. The park has various tree and then plant species and among others. Murchison falls national park is divided by the water of nature wonder the longest river in the world thus to form a thunderous crack of the devil cauldron.

Best time to visit Murchison falls national park.
Murchison falls national park is all the year round safari destination and then the park can be visited at any time of the year. Though during the safari, the best experiences do take place during the dry months of the year. Uganda has two different seasons that is both the dry season and then the wet seasons, the dry season takes place from December to February and then wet season from June to September.
During the dry season that’s when the animal species tend to roam freely around the park in the large numbers, as the animal species tend to congregate around the river banks as they search for drinking water thus offers perfect viewing experience. Compared to the rainy season to when the roads are muddy and thus it affects the vehicles to get stuck and then the rainy safari can affect some of the activities like hot air balloon safaris. Though during the wet season, that’s when the accommodations rates, can be less that’s makes it perfect for the budget friendly tourists to have the perfect experience.
For more experience about how to get to Murchison falls national park do not hesitate to contact us at African Vacation Safaris we shall advise you on the best means to use in order to get to the park and other safari activities that will make your safari experience with the unforgettable safari memories.