Safari Overview
4 Days Lake Mburo National Park Safari is a perfect get away for game viewing, birding, nature walks and boat cruise at Lake Mburo National Park. This attractive park of rolling hills and open grassy valleys interspersed with thickets woodlands and rich wetlands is the only place in Uganda where Impala still occur and is the best place to see large herds of Elands (African’s largest Antelopes). It is one of the only two Ugandan National Parks where Burchell’s Zebras are found and where a guided game walk is possible. In addition, Kibale National park on ther other hand gives an encounter with man’s closest relatives, it has the most chimpanzees in Uganda and Africa as a whole, other primates include the Black and White Colobus Monkeys, The nearby community-runs Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary offers birders an explosive adventure with a bird list of 335spiecies
Day 1: Arrival in Uganda
Upon arrival at Entebbe International Airport you will be met by our safari guide who will transfer you to Kampala to a hotel booked for you. In case you have had an early flight to Uganda, you will be taken on a brief tour of the city of Kampala. Next day the Lake Mburo National Park Safari adventure begins.
Accommodation: Protea Hotel
Day 2: Travel to Lake Mburo National Park
Wakeup to an early warming breakfast, at exactly 7:00am our tour guide/driver will be at your hotel to brief you about the exciting travel plan, there-after embark on a 4hours drive approximately 253km to Lake Mburo National park , you shall have a stop-over at the equator monument at Kayabwe located along Masaka-Kampala highway ,here you can checkout the curio shops selling African wear, have an experience of stepping into both the south and northern hemispheres at this stop. Later proceed to Lake Mburo National park, being the west the land of cattle keepers, expect to see the famous long horned cattle and other livestock through Sanga, proceed to accommodation Mihingo Lodge luxury from here our lunch will be served after a relaxation afternoon in the evening we shall go for horse riding only offered at Mihingo Lodge expect to lot’s the Cape Buffalos, the Impalas, Zebras rich birdlife in this open savanna the activity lasts for 3hours after retreat for dinner and accommodation Mihingo Lodge Luxury. Meal Plan Lunch and Dinner.
Day 3: Travel to Kibale National Park
After an early morning breakfast at 7:00am, you shall checkout of the accommodation with parked lunch for a boat cruise on Lake Mburo as a tour-guide on the boat takes you the history of its existence, expect to see life lots of aquatic life Hippos, Crocodiles other wildlife drawing near the famous salt leak lots of birdlife as well as fishermen drawing their nets in the middle of the Lake the cruise, activity takes around 3hours after this thunderous experience, drive out of the park through Mbarara where you shall have a stopover at Igongo Cultural Centre, here you will about Ankole culture, checkout the museum as well as the curio shop, proceeding to the road ,you will be driven to Kibale National park 136km about 4hours drive reaching late evening check-in to accommodation for dinner and overnight stay
Chimpanzee guest house. Luxury. Meal Plan Full Board.
Day 4 Travel back to Kampala
Rising to the sound of Nature, you will have a warming morning breakfast then you will be allocated into groups of 5 to 8people depending on the number of guides, briefed then head to the forest for chimp trekking, Kibale has the most number of chimpanzees in Uganda and Africa as a whole with a number of 1450chimpanzees and 13 other primate species like the Black and white Colobus Monkeys, Grey-Cheeked Mangobey as we also learn about the common historic tree species in the forest and butterfly life, the activity takes around 4 to 3hours after an encounter with these man’s closest relatives, you shall disembark from the forest to our accommodation, checkout with parked breakfast head to Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary which offers birders an impressive list of 335 bird species as well as visiting the Bigodi community this will take us one hour involvement there after emback on our journey back to Kampala reaching late evening transfer to your hotel
End of safari