1 Day Lake Mburo Nature Safari Tour.

Overview

Lake Mburo national park hosts a thousands of animal species, a heaven for nature tour, the smallest of Uganda’s savannah national parks and is located in kiruhura district in the western Uganda, the park is situated about 30 kilometers by road, east of Mbarara after Masaka, Lake Mburo National game Park harbors several wildlife species not observed else where in Uganda.

Lake Mburo is the only park in Uganda to support a population of impala (from which Kampala city derives its name), and only one of the three protected areas countrywide where Burchell’s zebra occurs, the other two being the far less accessible Kidepo and Pian-Upe.

Other antelopes easily seen are topi, bush buck, common duiker, oribi, Defassa water buck and Bofor reed buck, while the lake and lush fringing vegetation support healthy populations of buffalo, warthog and hippopotamus. Large herds of the majestic eland keep roaming the park. The sitatunga confines itself to the swampy areas of the park. Only two diurnal primates occur in Lake Mburo: the vervet monkey and olive baboon. Nocturnal calls of the spotted hyena can be heard through the night.

Leopard, side-striped jackal and various smaller predators are also present, most visibly the white-tailed mongoose and three otter species resident in the lakes.Lake Mburo National Park is a home to the Ankole cattle cared for by the traditional Bahima pastoralists, magnificent herds graze peacefully alongside the wildlife. this is determined dry and wet seasons that controls animal movements. Lake Mburo national park lacks heavy hitters like Elephants and Lions.

Tour Highlights

• Western Uganda Road
• Savannah Game Drive
• Nature Trek

Itinerary

G S Uganda Travel Guide will pick you up at 6:00am in Kampala from your Hotel or hostel, to start of your 1 day Lake Mburo national park safari tour, water is provided by us along the way, 3hrs drive to the park.

Check into Park and go on a Drive of the Park viewing the animals like zebras,antelopes, birds along the 3 hour drive with Uganda Wildlife Authority Guide. Fabulous views of Buffaloes, Zebras, Leopards, a variety of antelopes, warthogs, and one of the few places to view zebras in Uganda.

Lunch is included on tour cost along the Lake (there are 5 lakes within the Park) and then a boat ride along the shore. View crocodiles and lots of hippos with a variety of birds to see. This is the highlight of your trip there today.

Afterwards, we bid farewell to the park’s friendly staff as we depart for Kampala. We drive through a magnificent hilly country and lush cultivation on an approximately 4hrs journey.En route we will stop at the Equator for photographs and ‘polar-water experiment’, then a local community popular for making local drums (Mpabire Village), gardens, crafts shops and fruit markets.

We will be in Kampala in the evening before for your flight back home.

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