3 DAYS LAKE MBURO NATIONAL PARK SAFARI
Itinerary Overview
The 3 Days Lake Mburo National Park Tour takes you to an area of 370 square kilometer, Lake Mburo Park, one of the smallest savannah protected areas in the Pearl of Africa. Relax to the hidden gems of Lake Mburo National Park on this adventurous tour offering game drives and boat cruise, a walking safari in the park among other optional activities like horse riding, cycling among others. The park is characterized by a varied landscape of open savanna and acacia woodland, seasonal and permanent swamps, forest, and open water.
The Park is home to a number of wild games such as the Rothschild giraffes, zebras, elands, buffaloes, hippos, reedbucks, waterbucks, vervet monkeys, Uganda kobs, impalas, sitatungas, warthogs, mongoose, topis, bush pigs, and over 350 bird species including shoebill storks.
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Transfer To Lake Mburo NP, Afternoon Game Drive
In the morning, the guide will pick you up for a briefing aabout your 3 Days Tour to Lake Mburo NP and then you embark on an approximately 4 hrs drive to your destination. The journey will take us through some towns as locals go about their daily routine and the country side. Along the journey, we shall make a stop at the Equator for some photo and video demonstrations and stretching.
We shall continue with our journey towards the lodge with an aim of arriving just in time for lunch. After lunch, we shall drive to the park for an afternoon safari driving through the savannas of Lake Mburo via the Kigambira loop trail with chance encounters of buffaloes, elands, zebras, and birds.
Overnight:
Rwonyo Rest Camp (Budget)
Rwakobo Rock Lodge (Midrange)
Mihingo Lodge (Luxury)
Day 2: Morning Game drive & Afternoon Boat Cruise
After an early breakfast, we shall go for a sunrise game drive to catch up with a chance to meet wildlife in their day break routine with excellent views of the rolling hills and 5 Lakes, with a chance for you to come across a myriad of wildlife such as bush bucks, zebras, klipspringer, elands, warthogs, waterbucks, impalas and birds. After, we drive back to the lodge for lunch and prepare for a boat trip on Lake Mburo for an opportunity to catch up with hippos, crocodiles and birds, and then you will get back for dinner and retire for the night.
On this day, we can also opt for a night game drive for you to encounter nocturnal species like leopards, jackals, hyenas and nightjar birds.
Overnight:
Rwonyo Rest Camp (Budget)
Rwakobo Rock Lodge (Midrange)
Mihingo Lodge (Luxury)
Day 3: Morning Safari Walk, Transfer To Entebbe
After a hot cup of tea or coffee, we shall drive to the park head offices for a morning safari walk (or we can opt for cycling/ horseback riding) in the park. The safari walk leads us to the salt lick area getting us close encounters with zebras, impalas and other wildlife confine to lick the salt. Return to the lodge for breakfast and there after proceed to Entebbe with a stopover at the Equator for lunch and souvenir shopping. Continue to Entebbe to mark the end of our 3 Days Lake Mburo National Park Tour.
