Murchison Falls, also known as Kabalega Falls, is without question the most powerful waterfalls in the world. At the top of Falls, the Great River Nile rumbles and forces its way through a mere 7-metre gap in the rocks and plunges for a mind-blowing 43-metres (141ft) with a thunderous roar into the "Devil's Cauldron" creating its trademark rainbow. Put differently, every single second, the equivalent of 200 bathtubs of water is forced through a narrow gap in the volcanic rocks, and the pressure is so violent that it shakes the ground around it like an earthquake before flowing innocently westward into Lake Albert as a placid river whose banks are teaming with hippos, crocodiles, waterbucks, and buffaloes. British Explorer Sir Samuel Baker and Florence Baker were the first Europeans who sighted Murchison Falls and named it after Roderick Murchison, the President of the British Royal Geographical Society. During the regime of Idi Amin in the 1970s, the name was changed to Kabalega Falls, after the Omukama (King) Kabalega of Bunyoro, although this was never legally promulgated.

The falls also lends its name to the surrounding Murchison Falls National Park which was established in 1952 and is now the largest and most-visited national park in Uganda. The park lies at the northern end of the Albertine Rift Valley, where the sweeping Bunyoro escarpment tumbles into vast, palm-dotted savanna. First gazetted as a game reserve in 1926, it is Uganda's largest and oldest conservation area, hosting over 76 species of mammals and 451 bird species. Tourists from all over the world throng through the savannas that straddle the Great River Nile that runs through it. In

In order to get a birds-eye view of the Falls and National Park, tourists often ride in hot-air balloons – a spectacular sight in its own right. Notable visitors to the park include great politicians like Sir Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt.

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