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March 3, 2008

Boat trips:
With a variety of animals and birds within the water, the presence of the boats gives the  visitors clear views of the hippopotamus, crocodiles as well as birds like the black crake,  pelicans, cormorant, fish eagle, rare shoe bill stork and heron.

Boat rides are recommended to be driven for 2 hours ride. However, an extra fee can be given for  more hours.

Guided walks:
Nature Trail:
Guests are given a chance to walk along the shores of the lake, with the help of an armed guide  to give the visitors the most loveliest time spent on the lake.
Fishing:
Visitors are also allowed to go fishing. However, they are advised to carry their own fishing  gear. During sport fishing, there are almost six species caught and tilapia being common.

Salt lick:
A move to the salt lick is the maximum point visitors should do since its strategically located  on a wooden raised plat form, giving visitors a chance to view at least 4 species of animals  while they are at the salty soils. This gives the visitors perfect views since the salt lick has  been made clear for close observation.

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March 3, 2008

Game Drives:
The park has registered a number of impala tracks, which are used for touring the common species  along the shores such as topis, zebras, waterbucks and warthogs, which come to the shore to  drinks water.
For zebra, burchell, bushbucks, reedbucks and oribi, a zebra track leads you to these animals.

The zebra track heads to Roroko track junction. This drive leads you through the thick acacia  shrub, wetland basin and wood land concentrated with olive trees and euphorbia species.
Elusive Klipspringers are supported by the Ruroko track rock out crop.

Another track is the Kazuma track, which goes through wooded grassland where the black-bellied  bustards always concentrate. Climbing the Kazuma hill gives you the real lifetime experience  when you visit Lake Mburo. The hill gives you perfect views of all the 5 lakes within the park  and enables them to see sloping hills and more that they could have missed to see.

For water plants and animals, the lakeside tracks are available for viewing. This gives you a  chance to see the woodland birds and water birds, which can be spotted along on these tracks.
The Kigambira loop leads you to wooded wilderness where you can view bush duikers and bushbucks.

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March 2, 2008

Accommodation:
Lake Mburo National Park provides a choice of accommodation, of which these include; three  public campsites and 6 tents located at Rwonyo park head quarters, which are all raised on a  plat form to enhance perfect views to the lake. The lake restaurants near the lakeshores provide  meals on order basis. For up market tourists, they are catered for by only the Montana tented  camp located 3.5km away from Rwonyo park headquarters.

Conservation Education Centre:
The education centre has a well-decorated hall and accommodation just 1km away from Sanga gate.  The centre accommodates a maximum of 40 people. The centre handles seminars, workshops, visitors  and shoot groups.

Interpretation Centre.
The centre acts as a source of literature about the history of the lake as well as an  interpretation centre. The centre acts as a starting point for nature walks.
This centre is located on Rwonyo hill.

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February 26, 2008

LAKE MBURO NATIONAL PARK (LMNP).

LMNP is one of the most exciting places to be for every part of your life. The park’s harbours  are surrounded with several mammal species, which include; zebras, elands, topi, buffalos and  impalas as well as a variety of birds which, stand to include the rare shoebill stork, crested  cranes and many other.

A wide range of Mosaic habitats on the sculptured landscape include rich acacia tree valley,  seasonal and permanent swamps supporting wildlife wealth as well as forest galleries. The  landscape is covered with idyllic lakeshores and rolling grassy hills. However, its also covered  with its mosaic habitat of rocky outcrops, bushes, thickets wooded savannahs, swamps, lakes,  forests, dry hill side and open savannahs which support a number of wildlife and plants.

LMNP is the smallest Savannah National park in the whole of Uganda, covering 370km only.

Location:
The park is situated in Mbarara district and can be easily accessed using the Kampala-Masaka  road for just 3.5 hours. 13km past Lyantonde, you turn left to Nshara gate or 27km past  Lyantonde turn left at Sanga trading centre for another route. These 2 routes all have well  demarcated sign posts to show you the right directions.

To Rwonyo park head quarters, it’s about 2 minutes drive from the 2 gates.
Its about 8km from the main road to Nshara and 13km from Nsanga trading centre to Nsanga gate.

Fauna and Flora:
LMNP supports a tremendous biodiversity, which stands to include 68 mammal species such as  buffalos, topis, elands, zebras and impalas as well as hyenas, jackals, and leopards that are  predators. The park is also a home to more than 315 species of birds which include; African  foot, rare shoe bill stork, papyrus yellow warbler, brown chested wattled carruther’s cisticola  great snipe, white winged warbler, Abyssinian ground horn bill, tobora cisticola, sandle billed  stork as well as the dominant woody vegetation of Acacia species. Boscia species and olea  species, all being supported by Lake Mburo.

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