3 days Lake Mburo National Park Safari Uganda Wildlife Tour

The 3 Days Lake Mburo Safari Uganda Wildlife Tour in Lake Mburo National Park on your bird watching safari Uganda tour. On this 3-day Lake Mburo National Park Safari, you will have an authentic chance to tour birds through Lake Mburo National Park, which makes Lake Mburo park one of the best national parks in Uganda for bird watching Trips.

With its acacia-associated birds, lakes and wetlands, Lake Mburo National Park certainly lives up to its reputation. The park is the most accessible from Kampala and offers excellent bird watching tours and a wildlife safari experience in Uganda!

Boat cruise and walking safari are best suited for those staying in Mbarara or Kampala and have some nights to spend in one of the smallest but closest national parks in Uganda. Lake Mburo National Park is recovering from the wildlife-human conflicts of the 1970-80s where some important animals like lions were killed to extinction. With the efforts of Uganda Wildlife Authority to restore Lake Mburo to its former glory, some animals such as lions and giraffes have been restored, and this has made Lake Mburo a good wildlife safari destination in Uganda.

3 Days Lake Mburo Safari Highlights

Day 1: from Kampala Capital City – Lake Mburo National Park
Day 2: Activities in Lake Mburo National Park
Day 3: Lake Mburo – Kampala

3 Days Lake Mburo National Park Safari: Safari Day by Day

Day 1: from Kampala Capital City – Lake Mburo National Park

Pick up from your home/hotel or from the Airport in the Early morning, leave Kampala to Lake Mburo National Park via the Equator, take some photos and take time to have a look at the traditional drums and crafts before proceeding to Masaka for lunch.

After lunch, drive to Lake Mburo National Park; check in to your accommodation. Later, an evening game drive from 4:30 pm to search for animals such as the Eland, Topis, Impalas, zebras and many more, with a chance to see some colourful, beautiful birds in the evening fly to their resting places. Return to your camp for dinner and overnight.

Day 2: Activities in Lake Mburo National Park

Your breakfast will be served at 07:00 am before you leave for a nature walks to the different areas of interest like the Nakivale wet land which is associated with fresh water and plains of seasonal floods which are permanent, this is an opportunity to see some animals as they graze and go back to their hiding places, this include Hippopotamus, Buffalos, and many more that are around the swamp drinking water.

You will return to the camp for a traditionally prepared delicious lunch, then take a boat ride on the lake, where different species of plants, animals in water, crocodiles, birds and many more are seen clearly when on boat trips. Dinner and overnight.

Day 3 of the 3 Days Lake Mburo National Park Safari: Lake Mburo – Kampala

Today comes the end of your safari. After breakfast, you shall check out of your room. Return to Kampala if you stay here / Entebbe to catch your flight.

Lake Mburo National Park

End of the 3 Days Lake Mburo National Park Safari

LAKE MBURO NATIONAL PARK AT A GLANCE

Size: 370km2

Altitude: 1,220m – 1,828m above sea level

Wetland habitats comprise 20% of the park’s surface

The parks’ precarious past has seen wildlife virtually eliminated several times: firstly in various attempts to rid the region of tsetse flies, then to make way for ranches, and finally as a result of subsistence poaching.

20% of the park’s entrance fee is used to fund local community projects such as building clinics and schools.

Lake Mburo National Park is a compact gem, located conveniently close to the highway that connects Kampala to the parks of western Uganda.

It is the smallest of Uganda’s savannah national parks and is underlain by ancient Precambrian metamorphic rocks, which date back more than 500 million years.

It is home to 350 bird species as well as zebra, impala, eland, buffalo, oribi, Defassa waterbuck, leopard, hippo, hyena, topi and reedbuck.

Together with 13 other lakes in the area, Lake Mburo forms part of a 50km-long wetland system linked by a swamp.

Five of these lakes lie within the park’s borders. Once covered by open savanna, Lake Mburo National Park now contains much woodland as there are no elephants to tame the vegetation.

In the western part of the park, the savanna is interspersed with rocky ridges and forested gorges, while patches of papyrus swamp and narrow bands of lush riparian woodland line many lakes.