Activities in Lake Mburo national park
Lake Mburo national park provides a wide range of activities that can make your safari more fun filled and unforgettable. The park really does give you your money’s worth. The park has quite a number of herbivorous animals like warthogs, zebras, buffaloes and many others. Below are some of the activities that can spice up your safari:
Game drive
This is one of the main activities in Lake Mburo national park that gives an opportunity to a tourist to enjoy their safari from the comfort of their vehicle. The drive can be enjoyed either early in the morning or in the evening when the wildlife is most active. In the morning you will manage to sight the early risers like zebras, antelopes, buffaloes, topi, impalas, warthogs, bushbucks, oribi and many other animals. The drives happen on various tracks around the park like the zebra track that reveals the Burchell’s zebra, Kazuma track for refreshing unforgettable views within the park. The Kigambira loop is another truck that penetrates the woodlands and presents a numerous herbivores like bushbucks. The drive also provides a good bird watching experience in the park.
Night game drive
The park schedules a night drive with spotlight torches in order to enjoy the view of nocturnal wildlife like bush babies, porcupines, white tailed mangoes, civet, leopards, hyenas and hippos. The night drive also reveals carnivores hunting for their prey.
Boat cruise
Lake Mburo has two scheduled boat cruises a day that is; in the morning at 9am and afternoon at 2pm on Lake Mburo. The boat cruise enables you to gaze at some wildlife in the water like Nile crocodiles, hippos and buffaloes, giraffes at the shores. The cruise also provides a view towards birds like hornbills, cormorants, bee-eaters, fish eagles, BlaGreat Swamp Warblers, Chubb’s and Caruthers’s Cisticola Black Crake, Common Squacco , Greenwood Hoopoe, Blue-breasted Shining-blue Kingfishers, Lilac-breasted Roller, Black-winged Bishop, Great White, and Pink-backed Pelicans and many others.
Nature walks
Nature walks in Lake Mburo national park are done with the company of a park guide and an armed park ranger for security purposes. The best time to enjoy a nature walk is in either in the morning or evening through Rubanga forest, Rwoyo and other places. While on the drive, you will take in refreshing views of different wildlife and bird species. Some birders also partake in nature walks to watch birds as the park is endowed with over 300 bird species.
Bird watching
Lake Mburo national park has over 350 bird species like water birds and forest birds. Birding in lake Mburo is best enjoyed early in the morning in numerous locations like the salt lick, Rubanga forest, and swampy valleys of Miriti and Rwonyo camp. The birds one can spot in this area include African wattled lapwing, papyrus gonolek, hairy breasted barbet, blue headed coucal, red faced barbet, white winged swamp warbler, yellow rumped tinkerbird, tabora cisticola, elusive shoebill stork, Nubian wood pecker, rufous bellied heron, African fish eagle, black bellied bustard, red shouldered tit, white parrot, yellow breasted apalis, long tailed cisticola, ross’s turaco, white headed barbet, grey crowned crane, brown parrot, African finfoot and others.
Horseback riding
The horseback riding experience is a one of a kind experience that is organized in only one park; Lake Mburo national park. The activity is conducted by Mihingo safari lodge and not by the park administration and gives one an experience to enjoy the view of various wildlife like buffaloes, impalas, zebras, warthogs, topi, oribi, waterbucks, duikers and leopards.
Spot fishing
This is quite a thrilling and competitive activity in the park conducted at lake Mburo and Mazinga with an estimate of 6 fish namely; mud fish, cat fish, barbell, lung fish, tilapia and Angara fish. To conduct the activity you should obtain a permit from Uganda Wildlife Authority. The lake is free from crocodiles and hippos therefore it is secure and safe to engage in the activity. There is a special catch to this activity in lake Mburo that is; you get to keep the fish. The experience comes with a plus to the birders as they can spot a few birds during the activity like African king Fischer, the Grey-crowned cranes and Great cormorants.
