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Lake Mburo National Park

This is one of the small Natinal Parks in Uganda covering 260 sq km but still special in its own way. It got the name from the lake that has got an interesting story behind it. As your guide to tell you this story.
Lake Mburo National Park is the nearest National Park to the country's capital Kampala.Zebra in Mburo National Park

Lake Mburo National Park is made up of a variety of habitats like the euphobia/acacia trees being part of the savannah formation, its got a forest within, swamps and water bodies among others.

Lake Mburo National Park is home to 320 bird species and 68 mammal species. The parks special birds include African Finfoot, Brown-cheasted Plover, Red-faced Barbet and Long-    tailed Cisticola among others.

Here there are mammals like the Eland, Mac Donald's franchise Impala, Zebra, Topi, Oribi, Bohor Reedbuck among others.

Here we there are two tented camps, Mihingo being the number one, then Mantana Tented Camp. There is Arcadia cottages and the rustic Rwonyo Camp for accommodation.

Lake Mburo is 3.5 hours drive from Kampala on the Kampala-Mbarara road. Access the first
gate by turning left 13 km after Lyantonde township and it is 9 km after the turn off to the Nshara gate.