6 Days Lake Mburo Wildlife Safari

Safari highlights: Game Drives – 2 Boat Cruise-1, Cultural Tours-1
Equipment to bring: Camera, wide angle lens, 200+ mm lens, Tripod, waterproof protection for equipment, spare batteries and charger.

Itinerary summary:
Day 1: Airport- Kampala
Day 2: Drive to Lake Mburo National Park and Boat Cruise
Day 3: Morning game drive and Nature Walk
Day 04: Visit Rwenjeru community campsite and Igongo cultural village
Day 05: Morning game drive/Safari walk and departure
Day 6: Shopping/ City Tour and Airport Departure

About Lake Mburo National Park
Lake Mburo is Uganda’s smallest savanna National Park. It is conveniently close to the highway that connects Kampala to the parks of western Uganda. The park is underlain by ancient Precambrian metamorphic rocks which date back more than 500 million years. The park is home to over 350 bird species and has the biggest concentration of zebras, impala, and eland in Uganda. Other animals are: buffalo, oribi, defassa waterbuck, leopard, hippo, hyena, topi and reedbuck. Read More »

Detailed Programme

Day 1: Airport- Kampala
You arrive at Entebbe International Airport and a representative from Snap Uganda Tours will meet you and drive you to Sheraton Kampala Hotel (luxury) {1hr} or to Cassia Lodge (mid-range). Please feel free to ask questions about Uganda along the way.

Dinner and overnight at Sheraton Kampala Hotel – Luxury
Dinner and overnight at Cassia Lodge – Mid-range

Day 2: Drive to Lake Mburo National Park and Boat Cruise
After breakfast, you will be driven to Lake Mburo National Park passing small towns along Kampala-Mbarara. The first stop will be at Mpambire, a work station for royal drum makers. Here, you will see how local drums are made out of trees and animal hides and skins. The second stop is at the Uganda Equator crossing where you will take pictures and do some experiments to prove that indeed this is center of planet earth.

You will arrive and check in at Mihingo Lodge ( luxury) or at Rwakobo Rock ( Mid-range) in time for lunch. In the evening, you will do a game drive as you head to Lake Mburo for a boat Cruise. Lake Mburo is well-to-do with a variety of animal and plant species which can only be seen clearly if you take a boat trip. The Hippopotamuses, crocodiles and birds like Pelicans, Heron, Fish Eagle, Black Crake, African Fin foot and Cormorants can be sighted on a during a boat cruise.

During or after the boat cruise, check out and prepare to take stunning sunset pictures over the lake if it’s not cloudy. At night, get out your camera and tripod and watch the stars in the sky.

Dinner and overnight at Mihingo Lodge- Luxury
Dinner and overnight at Rwakobo Rock -Mid-range

Day 3: Morning game drive and Nature Walk
After breakfast, you drive the park to get a ranger who will guide you through a game drive. The network of game tracks in the east of the park passes a variety of landscape features; acacia woodland, wetlands, grassy hillsides, rock outcrops and seasonally flooded valley floors. Early morning and late afternoon are the best times to roam the park in search of wildlife. Commonly sighted are warthog, topi, impala, duiker, bushbuck, waterbuck, zebra, the shy eland and a variety of birds.

After lunch and short relaxation, do a nature walk under the guidance of a Uganda Wildlife Authority ranger. This activity is suitable for those who would like to stretch their legs and view wildlife on foot. At the moment, it’s only in Lake Mburo where you can do safari on foot. You will get an opportunity to see what you could have seen on any game drive except that this time around you will do it on foot. The walk will give you an opportunity to do macro photography of insects, butterflies and plants.

Dinner and overnight at Mihingo Lodge – Luxury
Dinner and overnight at Rwakobo Rock – Mid-range

Day 4: Visit Rwenjeru community campsite and Igongo cultural village
After breakfast, you drive southwest ward towards Mbarara town to visit Rwenjeru Community Camp site where you will be welcomed by the local community who are mainly cattle keepers in the region. They will take you through what they do on a daily basis including, cattle raring, cattle watering, milking and so much more. You will also learn the history of the cattle keepers and about their long horned cattle.

From there, you will drive to Igongo cultural center for lunch and sample traditional dishes. After lunch, you will tour Igongo Museum to get an explanation on the several ethnographic collections in the museum. Return to the lodge.

Dinner and overnight at Mihingo Lodge – Luxury
Dinner and overnight at Rwakobo Rock – Mid-range

Day 5: Morning game drive/Safari walk and departure
After breakfast, you will do a game drive and return to Kampala. On arrival you will check in at Sheraton Kampala Hotel.

Dinner and overnight at Sheraton Kampala Hotel- Luxury
Dinner and overnight at Cassia Lodge -Mid-range

Day 6: Shopping/ City Tour and Airport Departure
After breakfast you check out of the Hotel and you go for shopping in Kampala City then you will have Lunch at a restaurant of your choice, thereafter you will be transferred to Entebbe International Airport for your departure flight.

Tour Prices
This is a private Photographic Safari and can be booked by an individual or a group of a maximum of people per vehicle.

Cost Includes