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Kibale National Park
Discover Kibale National Park: The Beating Heart of Africa's Primate Kingdom
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A Convenient Safari Escape: The closest national park to Kampala, perfect for travelers with limited time.
Bird watching in Lake Mburo National park Lake Mburo National Park offers a spectacular birding safari experience with over 315 bird species, including rare finds like the shoebill stork and African fin foot. Bird enthusiasts will delight in spotting diverse species such as the saddle-billed stork, abyssinian ground hornbill, and white-winged warbler. The park’s varied habitats support a wide range of birds, from open water and lakeshore species to woodland and grassland birds, making it a haven for birdwatchers of all levels.
Boat cruise in Lake Mburo National park Lake mburo National Park is blessed with a diversity of animal and plant species that can only be clearly viewed if you take a boat cruze. To mention but a few, are crocodiles, hippopotamuses and birds like Pelicans, Black crake, Heron, cormorant, fish eagle, one may also sight the rare shoebill stork and all these are worth furnish one`s Uganda safari with pride. For any tourist, the presence of Lake Mburo within the park is a blessing with a lot to offer. The duration of each boat cruise is negotiable but it usually takes 2hrs and arrangements for extra time can be made with management at an extra fee.
Best Time to Visit: Year-round. The dry seasons (June-August and December-February) offer better game viewing as animals gather around the lakes.
By Road: Take the Masaka-Mbarara highway. The park is well-signposted with two main access gates: Nshara Gate: Turn left 13km past Lyantonde; it's an 8km drive from the main road to the gate. Sanga Gate: Turn left at Sanga trading center; it's a 13km drive to the gate. From either gate, it's about a 20-minute drive to the Rwonyo Park Headquarters.
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Uganda
Discover Kibale National Park: The Beating Heart of Africa's Primate Kingdom
Guided nature walks in Lake Mburo National park The nature trail offers the visitor a chance to admire unique nature insights. In company of an armed guide, visitors have the opportunity to walk in the circuit at their personal choice pace. Comprehensive information about this trail is fully given to you in form of a brochure in both English and Runyankole at the trek/walk start.
Game Viewing in Lake Mburo National park: Lake Mburo National Park is a famous Uganda safari tour destination for popular for it is richness in biodiversity and has about 68 different species of mammals. The common ones being the herbivores; Zebra, Impala, Buffalo, Topi, and Eland ,the slightly rare encounter of Roan antelope and leopard, Hyenas and jackals as predators.
Salt Lick in Lake Mburo National park: A walk to the nearby salt pits is the pick of the Mburo Uganda tour. Standing at the strategically located wooden hide (Observation point) offers visitors a chance to see at least 4 different species of animals at any one time as they lick the salty soil. Most interesting at this point is that the animals are viewed without their conscience hence they are not distracted from the salt lick .
Conservation Education Center: The park has a conservation education center, just about 1 Kilometer from Sanga gate and its open to interested tourists. With a decent accommodation and a 40 people occupancy hall, this center caters for individual visitors, school groups, for tourism , seminars and workshops.
Interpretation Center: Literature about the Park history, biodiversity and other resources including the scenic beauty is always available at the interpretation Center (The interpretation center is located at Rwonyo hill), which also serves as a starting point for nature walks.
Rubanga Forest in Lake Mburo National park With over 40 species of birds recorded in Rubanga, One can also explore this forest by making arrangements with the park management to have a ranger accompany you. Rubanga Forest is very small but a true forest with a closed canopy in place. The forest has unique trees common among them, are the Markhamia platycalyx (grey-brown truck) with irregular flaky patches, divided leaves, yellow flowers stripped and spotted with red; brunches of extremely long (up to 1.3 m pod like fruits). Palms, figs, sapium (a tall tree whose leaves turn red before falling) as well as the flame tree Erythrina abyssinica located towards the edge of the swamp.
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Located in the southwest of Uganda near Kasese, covering 1978 sq km. Queen Elizabeth National Park (QENP) is among Uganda`s most popular wildlife safari park and accessible savanna reserve.
