Lake Mburo National park is Uganda’s smallest national park that is 260 square kilometers and about 200 kilometers from Kampala. It’s the most convenient national park for visitors who would like to experience wildlife at the shortest distance possible. The 5 day adventure will enable you to do a variety of activities such as game drives, birding, natural walks and boat cruise at Lake Mburo National Park. This attractive park of rolling hills and grassy valleys interspersed with thickets woodlands and rich wetlands is the only place in Uganda where Impala still occur and is the best place to see large herds of Elands (African’s largest Antelopes).
MEAL PLAN: FULL BOARD MEALS
ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS: KIGAMBIRA SAFARI LODGE AND MIHINGO LODGE
Entebbe International airport/Kampala
Upon arrival at Entebbe International Airport, you will be met by our safari guide who will transfer you to your booked hotel. In case of an early flight to Uganda, you will have a brief city tour of Kampala. Next day you begin on your trip to Lake Mburo National Park.
After breakfast, you start the trip to Lake Mburo National Park travelling to the west of Kampala, the journey will take 3-4 hours with a stopover at the equator where you will have an opportunity to stand in two hemispheres at the same time and also take photos. You will continue to Lake Mburo where you will have lunch at the lodge booked for you.
Later in the afternoon, you will go on a boat trip on the lake to see a variety of animals such as hippos, crocodiles, and bird species such as pelican, heron, fish eagle, black crake which can only be viewed on a boat trip. You will return to your lodge for dinner and an overnight.
Game drive in the game park.
You will have an early breakfast and set off for a sunrise game drive in the park, expect to see a variety of wildlife such as zebras, monkeys, impalas, waterbucks, elands, buffaloes, hippos, topi among others.
You will return to your lodge for lunch and in the afternoon go for either horse riding around the park, or a Nature walk in the Rubanga Forest.
This forest offers an excellent habitat for birds therefore a very attractive place for bird watching all, time allowing you would participate in sports fishing at Lake Mburo before retiring to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
You will have breakfast and then set off for a cultural tour in the Nshenyi area. This is a cultural tour that rotates around cattle i.e. the keeping, grazing and benefits. Highlights involve witnessing how milk is extracted from the udders of the cows and treated to become ghee.
You also see how the Bahima community set up their homesteads, take a village walk and if it’s a mark day we visit the market. In the evening, entertainment by the local community can be arranged. Return to your lodge for dinner and an overnight.
Transfer park to Kampala, you will be dropped off to your hotel or Entebbe Airport.
