Lake Mburo National Park

In the shortest time, this 2 day safari to Lake Mburo National Park offers you a great opportunity for a weekend getaway, just a few hours drive from Uganda's busy capital city. Enjoy game drives, a boat safari and a bush walk in the park's lush bush savannah. The small park is famous for its many zebras, impalas and the world's largest antelope species: the eland, which are not found in any other park in Uganda.

The 2 day safari leads you to lake mburo national park which is the smallest savannah park in Uganda, measuring 370 square kilometers. It is the most accessible of parks being located along the Kampala Mbarara highway in the western districts of Mbarara and Kiruhura. The park is small but with varied habitats for its size. These range from acacia woodland, dry hillsides, rocky outcrops, bushy thickets, open and wooded savannah, seasonal and permanent swamps. It small size should not make you think there is nothing to keep you occupied. There are 14 lakes surrounding the park, 5 of which are found within the boundaries of lake mburo national park. These lakes are part of a wetland system that is linked by a swamp that is some 50 km long, fed by the Ruizi River on the western side. Lake Mburo is the largest of the lakes and it is decorated by an array of fishing villages, some of which are ideal for sport fishing.

On this 2 day safari to Lake Mburo National Park, you can have various nature walks with a ranger guide to seek out your interests i.e. mammals, plants, and shrubs, insects and many more. Birding is another activity due to the park's habitats hosting over 315 species of birds like the African fish eagle and the AAfrican kingfisher. The park is also home to over 68 mammalian species such as buffaloes, giraffes, bush pigs, leopards, warthogs, etc all of which are dispersed within different habitats of the savannah park. One of the special characteristic of this safari package is the possibility to book an optional horseback safari in the national park.