One of Uganda’s smallest National parks at 260 sq kms, Lake Mburo National park is only 3 hours (219 kms) drive from Kampala. It is an attractive and popular park of rolling hills and open grassy valleys, interspersed with thickets, woodlands and rich wetlands. The park provides ideal habitats for many species of wildlife, including hippo and crocodile around the lake. On land there are herds of buffalo, zebra, eland and other antelope as well as impala. There are also leopard, hyenas and jackals in the park although these are rarely seen.

This less pronounced presence of the larger predators means that visitors have the rare opportunity of a walking Safari, enabling a very different wildlife experience to when restricted to vehicles. The park is also famous for its birdlife which includes the rare shoebill, the abyssinia ground hombill, and the saddlebill stork, as well as many other species and in particular waterbirds.

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