3 Days Lake Mburo Budget Safari

Wake up early enough to take your tea as you prepare for an early morning game drive along the Kazuma track. The Kazuma track offers amazing views of the park including the rolling hills and all five lakes. The game drive will involve exploring the deeper parts of the park for encounters with zebras, eland, waterbucks, bushbucks, warthogs, impalas, klipspringer and many other mammals. This morning game drive may also enable you to sport night creatures and predators like hyenas, leopards and jackals.

After completing the morning game drive, you will go back to your lodge for lunch, refreshments and relaxation. The driver will take you for an afternoon boat cruise close to the shores of Lake Mburo. Birders will be able to spot countless birds on the shores of the lake including the African fin foot, African grey hornbill, brown parrot, common scimitar bill, crested francolin, fish eagles, herons, nubian woodpecker, papyrus bush strike, pelicans, shoe bill stork, weaver birds, white winged warbler and yellow breasted apalis.

Accommodation Option: Mburo Eagle’s Nest or Similar

This will be your last day in Lake Mburo National Park. Wake up early and take your breakfast before heading for another exciting encounter with the wildlife in the park. You have a choice on what activity to take part in –  walking safari, birding, fishing, cycling, quad biking or a safari on a horse back. Lake Mburo is the only park where one can take part in a horseback safari, a quad biking safari, a mountain bike or walking safari.

The best place to go for a guided nature walk is at the salt lick area. This is where zebras, impalas and other park animals go to lick salt. A hidden wooden platform has been constructed where visitors can go and watch as park animals visit the salt mine. If you are not interested in the nature walk, you can go and discover the park using a quad bike, mountain bike or on horseback. The horseback safari allows you to get very close to the park animals as they are less alerted in the company of horses. All these activities are led by a game ranger who knows where to find the animals. If you choose sport fishing at the Mazinga landing site, you need to have your own fishing equipment. The permit for fishing needs to be got from the Uganda Wildlife Authority.

After this final day of exploring the park, you will be taken back to the hotel for lunch before embarking on the journey back to Kampala or the airport in Entebbe. There will be a stop at the equator crossing to take photos as you stand in different parts of the earth’s hemisphere. If time permits, the driver can also stop at the Mpigi Royal Drum Makers where large ceremonial drums used by the Kingdom of Buganda are made. We hope that you would have had a great time while at Lake Mburo.