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5 Days Lake Mburo National Park Safari

Overview

Over five days, you’ll journey from Kampala into Uganda’s peaceful Lake Mburo National Park, enjoying savannah wildlife, water-rich habitats, and birdlife galore. Your first day includes travel via Masaka, stops at the Equator, arrival at the lodge, and an afternoon or evening game drive. The following day offers a morning game drive through open plains, then a boat cruise on Lake Mburo to view hippos, crocodiles, and shore birds. Days in between allow for walks, more wildlife viewing, lakeshore relaxation, and photography. Accommodations are comfortable lodges or bandas with full board. Your final day returns you to Kampala, reflecting on wildlife sightings, landscapes and nature’s quiet moments.

5 Days Lake Mburo National Park Safari Attractions

Highlights

Morning and evening game drives in Lake Mburo, spotting zebras, impalas, Uganda kob, buffaloes, giraffes, and warthogs in open savannah landscapes.

Boat cruise on Lake Mburo shores with views of hippos and Nile crocodiles, plus water birds and mammals drinking at the water’s edge.

Bush walks led by experienced guides: observe smaller wildlife, birds, scenic wetland flora, and riverine environments up close.

Comfortable lodge or bandas with full board meals, Equator stopover, photographic sunsets, wildlife experiences, balanced with relaxing lakeside time.

Day by Day Itinerary

Day 1: Arrival in Uganda
5 Days Lake Mburo National Park Safari Attractions

Upon arrival at Entebbe International Airport, our safari guide will meet you and take you to Kampala to a hotel that you have booked. If you have had an early flight to Uganda, a short tour of Kampala City will take you. The adventure of the Lake Mburo National Park Safari starts the next day.

5 Days Lake Mburo National Park Safari Attractions

After breakfast, the Lake Mburo National Park Safari begins and we travel west from Kampala to Lake Mburo National Park. The trip will take 3-4 hours at the Equator with a stopover where you will have the chance to simultaneously stand in 2 hemispheres and take memorial pictures. You will proceed to Lake Mburo where the lodge booked for you will have dinner.

You will go on a boat ride on the lake in the afternoon to see a range of pets such as hippos and crocodiles and bird species such as Pelicans, Black Crake, Heron, Cormorant and Fish Eagle that can only be obviously seen on a boat journey. You are going to retire for lunch and overnight at your lodge.

5 Days Lake Mburo National Park Safari Attractions

You will have an early breakfast and set off for a sunrise game drive in the park where you can expect to see a range of wildlife such as zebras, monkeys, impalas, waterbucks, elands, buffalos, hippos, topi, bohor reedbuck, sitatunga antelope, klipspringer, vervet monkey, olive baboon, side-striped jackal, spotted hyena, leopard, white-tailed mongoose, among others.

You will return for a meal to your lodge and go for either a riding horse around in the park or a stroll in the Rubanga Forest in the evening. This forest is therefore a very appealing location for bird watching, offering an outstanding habitat for birds. You’d be involved in sport fishing at Lake Mburo before you retire.

5 Days Lake Mburo National Park Safari Attractions

You’re going to have breakfast and then start a cultural tour of the Nshenyi region. This is a trip that revolves around cattle, i.e. conservation, grazing and advantages. Highlights include witnessing how milk is harvested from the cows ‘ udders and handled as ghee. You also see how the Bahima society set up their homes, take a village walk, and we visit the market if it’s a market day. Local community entertainment can be arranged at night.

5 Days Lake Mburo National Park Safari Airport

You drive back to Kampala, arriving in the afternoon. You then will cater for your expenses to wherever you would love to visit.

5 Days Lake Mburo National Park Safari Attractions

Transportation with a pop-up roof boat cruise in a land cruiser / super custom All fuel for the journey.

English speaking driver/guide

Fees for guide rangers.

Boat cruise accommodation and meals.

All activities.

The park fee depends on the program.

International flights

Airport taxes

All meals and drinks not specified

Tips and gratuities

Items of a personal nature

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