Lake Mburo National Park
Lake Mburo national park is located in western Uganda in the district of Kiruhura, covering a total area of about 260 square kilometers. Lake Mburo National Park is Uganda’s smallest savannah national park. It was gazetted in 1983. The park is spectacular, offering quite a number of Uganda safari activities to travelers. Lake Mburo National Park is home to over 350 bird species recorded in the park, making it a birder’s haven. Also, on a Uganda wildlife safari to Lake Mburo National Park, one can encounter animals such as impalas, Zebras, warthogs, oribi, waterbucks, giraffes, and elands, to mention but a few.
Attractions in Lake Mburo National Park
On a Uganda safari to Lake Mburo National Park, there are a lot of attractions to see in the park. These encompass the following:
Birds;
Lake Mburo National Park is a birder’s haven, with close to 350 bird species recorded in the park, making it stand out as one of the birding destinations in Uganda. Some of the bird species to sight in the park while on a Uganda birding safari include the Mosque swallow, Black-bellied bustard, Bare-faced go-away bird, Rüppell’s starling, Southern ground hornbill, Black-throated barbe, blue-napped mousebird, brown parrot, common quails, crested francolin, emerald spotted wood Dove, greenwood hoopoe, Lilac-breasted Roller, Nubian woodpecker, Red-necked spurfowl, trilling cisticola, white-winged warbler and the Shoebill stork. African wattled plover Rufous, Black Bellied Bustard, Coqui francolin, Flapped larks, red-necked spurfowl, and many more.
Animals:
Key animal species to sight include oribi, zebras, hippos, impalas, giraffes, warthogs, hyenas, and buffaloes, to mention but a few. On morning and evening game drives, as well as during a boat cruise safari experience, you can sight many of these species.
What to do in Lake Mburo National Park
A Uganda wildlife tour to Lake Mburo National Park offers a variety of activities.
Boat cruise;
The boat cruise trips are done on schedule per day and they usually last for 2hours and they are done either in the morning or evening and animals like hippos and buffaloes are sighted, which makes the trip enjoyable and memorable.
Game drives
Game drives; taking a game drive around lake mburo is the best way to explore the park and see the variety of wild animals like zebras, which are only found in mburo or kidepo, impalas, hippos, elands and many more.
Bird watching;
It an amazing experience because this smallest savannah park has more than 350bird species like the African finfoot, blue breated kingfisher greater painted-snipe, and papyrus gonolek, which makes birders’ Uganda safari trips memorable.
Guided nature walks;
Enjoy the guided nature walk safari is a unique park where you can walk in any location on your own, unlike other parks, because here your safer and nature walks always begin at 7 am and take 2 hours, during which you will meet many animals returning to their dens, like hippos returning from the lake
Cycling in lake mburo
Cycling in lake mburo national park is one of the activities that the park offers to its visitors. Cycling requires light swift clothes and some water to cool while on a tour and helmets while cycling it will enable you to reach different communities, like where research is done and eco-tourism.
Ankole long-horned experience in the farms
The Ankole long-horned cattle are some of the tourist attractions in lake mburo national park where visitors learn how the cows are grazed, the products that they produce, and why they are called long-horned cattle and you will be able to learn the bahima culture and see their traditional ways of life in your interaction with them.
Sport fishing
It can be done all year round, though the best period is during the dry season, the months of June,July,august, september,December, January, and February in these months there is less rainfall, and the water levels are lower, making the spot fishing easy and interesting during the spot fishing activity, visitors will be accompanied by experienced sport fishing guides who help you catch different fish like catfish, lungfish, and many others.
Best Time to visit
Lake Mburo National Park is visited all year round, but the best time to visit the park is during the dry months of June, July and august this is because during this time, the roads are passable to be able to get close to wildlife.
How to get there
By road
Lake mburo national park can be accessed by road from Kampala and branch from Sanga which will take you to the main gate which is the Sanga gate and it about 3 to hours to get into the park
By air
Fly from Entebbe international airport with aero link or fly and it will put in Mbarara at the airstrip in nyakisharara where the hotel car or company car will pick from and take you to the game park
Accommodations
Mpogo safari lodge;
Its amid range eco safari lodge offering 16 rooms with modern amenities and affordable rates to all kinds of people.
Leopard rest camp;
Offering economical campsites with various lodging options, including safari tents and also the rates charged are budget-friendly.
Rwakobo rock lodge offers comfortable cottages and safari tents and its rates begin from $155 per person per night
Kigarama wilderness lodge;
It is a small community lodge focused on sustainability, allowing clients to get close and connect with the community through activities like milking, cooking lessons and others, and it gives facilities like a swimming pool, swings on each cottage and many more.
Kigambira safari lodge;
It is built in the southern part of lake mburo it is an amazing lodge and it is a must-stop-over destination to relax and unwind and it provides the adventurous traveller with an array of activities like bush breakfast, nature walks, looping trails around lake kigambira and many more.
