Lake Mburo National Park – Kitagata Safaris Uganda

Covering just 370 square kilometers of wetlands and woodlands, Lake Mburo National Park is a short distance off the main highway about 235 kilometers west of Kampala. Once a controlled hunting area and then a game reserve, it became Uganda’s smallest savanna national park in 1983.

It is now the protected home of 350 bird species and 69 animal species, including zebras, buffalo, leopards, and hippos. It is also the only park in Uganda with impalas. Lake Mburo, around which the national park is wrapped, is part of a 14-lake, 50 km-long wetland system that was declared a Ramsar Wetland in 2006.

The wetland system accounts for only about a fifth of the parking area, the rest of which is spread over savanna and woodlands. Some of the most common park pleasures are birding on the lake (one of the best birding spots in Uganda) and in the nearby Rubanga forest.

There are also game drives, guided nature walks to salt licks, and cultural experiences with local Banyankore community groups.