Overview of your 3 days Lake Mburo National Park Uganda wildlife safari
Your 3 days Lake Mburo National Park Uganda wildlife safari is a perfect short wildlife safari in Uganda to a very calm, cool and beautiful national park. For 3 days and 2 nights, you will spend a great time within the whispers of the wild and the closest safari park in Uganda to Kampala-Uganda’s capital. This short Uganda tour features an equator experience, a boat cruise, game drive, quad biking, nature walk, cycling, horseback riding and quad biking.
Lake Mburo National Park is conveniently located along the western highway between Masaka and Mbarara districts. The park covers approximately 370 square kilometers in size. Lake Mburo National Park is an incredible little park perfect for short Uganda wildlife safaris and popular for the zebra and other wildlife species like the giant eland antelopes, impalas, warthogs, buffalos, defassa waterbucks, oribi, reed bucks and many more.
Over 300 bird species including the Red-faced Barbet which is endemic to the park, Abyssinian ground hornbill, White-winged Warbler, Crested Francolin, African Wattled lapwing, Black-bellied Bustard, Saddle-billed stork survive within this park. On Uganda birding safaris, there’s a great opportunity to sight the sought-after shoebill stork (though sightings are rare) and the African Fin foot.
Tour summary of the 3 days Lake Mburo National Park Uganda wildlife safari
Day 1: Your driver guide will pick you up from Kampala and transfer you to Lake Mburo national park. You will have a stop at the equator for photography and do an evening boat cruise.
Day 2: You will do a morning game drive and then have an evening nature walk through the park.
Day 3: You will either do quad biking, horseback riding or cycling, have lunch and then return to Kampala.
Detailed Itinerary of the 3 days 3 days Lake Mburo National Park Uganda wildlife safari
Day 1 of your 3 days Lake Mburo National Park Uganda wildlife safari
Your Uganda safari professional driver guide will pick you up from your hotel or place of residence as early as 7:00am and embark on road trip to Lake Mburo National Park. After an 80km drive from Kampala, you will have stop at the equator line in Kayabwe for a zero-latitude experience and photography. This will last maximumly one hour according to your interests and thereafter proceed to Lake Mburo National Park. Upon arrival, you will check in to your accommodation facility, have lunch and then after go to the park headquarters for an evening game drive at 4:00pm. During your boat cruise, you will sight crocodiles, hippos and water birds including; Fish Eagles, Pelicans, Black crake, Heron, Cormorant. You later return to your lodge in the evening, dinner and overnight.
Day 2 of your 3 days Lake Mburo National Park Uganda wildlife safari
By 7:00am, you will go for a morning game drive at the park offering a chance for early morning risers’ sightings. You will sight several bird species and calm animals like the zebras, impalas, Topis, buffalos, elands and others. The game drive will last about 2-4hours depending on how you want to customize your safari. You return to your hotel for lunch and later on go for horse back riding. On this day you can decide to have a night game drive in search of the nocturnal wildlife species.
Day 3 of your 3 days Lake Mburo National Park Uganda wildlife safari
On your last day of this amazing calm safari, you can choose to either do sport fishing, cycling or quad biking through the park. After doing the activity of your choice and getting so close to wildlife, you will return to your hotel for lunch, refreshment and then be driven back to Kampala or Entebbe international airport for your departure flight.
Take time to visit a new place each time and within 3 days you can go beyond lake Mburo and do a Uganda gorilla trekking tour at Bwindi impenetrable national park or take a Uganda gorilla safari to Mgahinga gorilla national park. Its still possible to spend 3 days on a gorilla safari Rwanda or Congo gorilla trekking safari in volcanoes national park and Virunga national park respectively.
Come walk in the wild and discover the calm side of mother nature in just 3 days.
