Lake Mburo National Park

At 370 sqkm, Lake Mburo National Park is small in comparison with some other East African parks, but with its rich variety of habitats, dry hillsides, rocky outcrops, bushy thickets, open and wooded savannah, forest, lakes and swamps, it is home to a surprising diversity of plants and animals.

Lake Mburo is the only park in Uganda with eland, impala and klipspringer. It is also home to approx. 5,000 zebras (the largest population in Uganda) and probably contains the highest concentration of leopards in the country. Buffalo, waterbuck, topi and warthog are also very common. Reedbuck and oribi can also be spotted in the open valleys. Hyena, genet, bush pigs and white tailed mongoose are often seen on night game drives.

At the centre of the Park is Lake Mburo, which together with 14 other lakes in the area, forms part of a wetland system linked by a swamp 50 km long. Five lakes, of which the largest is Lake Mburo, occur within the Park’s boundary. Almost a fifth of the Park’s area consists of wetlands and swamps that are home to a wide variety of birds including Grey crowned Crane, Black Headed Gonolek, Red Necked Spurfowl, Grey Backed Fiscal, Ruppell’s Starling, Papyrus Gonolek etc, as well as the shy, rare sitatunga antelope.

Lake Mburo’s surface and its fringing vegetation are always changing and it is possible to take a boat out to watch the numerous hippos, some crocodiles and an incredible amount of African Fisheagles. The lake is also one of the best places to spot the rarely seen African Finfoot and White-Backed Heron amongst many other water birds.