Night Game drive In Lake Mburo National Park.
Night game drive is among the best safari activities not to lack a Uganda safari bucket list that offers you the perfect opportunity to have the best wildlife safari experience during the night. Lake Mburo national park is among the outstanding and attractive national parks in Uganda that offers the tourists with the night game drives. Night game drive is among the unique safari activity in the park where the tourist spot the animal species during night time. Night game drive offers tourists the chances of spotting the nocturnal animal species in the park like lion, porcupines, hyenas, jackals, serval cats and among others with African Vacation Safaris.

Lake Mburo national park is located in the western part of Uganda in Kiruhura district, the park is known as Savannah Park that is famously known for its beautiful landscape characterized by the wetlands, acacia woodlands, and grassy hillsides and among many others. Lake Mburo national park has got the various wildlife species that includes zebras, impalas, antelopes, bushbucks, buffalos, waterbucks, eland, giraffes and among others. With bird species that includes the papyrus yellow warbler, saddle-billed stork, African fish eagle, Black-headed gonolek, Blue-headed coucal, Greater painted-snipe, Grey crowned crane, Tabora cisticola, Yellow-rumped tinkerbird, African finfoot and among others.
Night game drives in Lake Mburo National Park.
Night game drives in Lake Mburo national park starts from 6:30 pm or 7:00 pm and it takes a period of two hours. This is the magical and stunning game viewing experience, being in the savannah during the dark in the safari vehicle together with the presence of well experienced guides and the use of the spotlight torches that provides light where the tourists can easily watch the wild species in the nightfall. At the same time it’s the perfect time to watch the animal species as they are resting in the park.
Night drive is such beautiful where the tourists get to spot the most of the nocturnal animal species from the pop up roofs cars of Uganda Wildlife Authority that gives you the spectacular view of the animal species, with the id of the well experienced guide who gives you the whole interesting information about the nocturnal animal species.
The night game drives can be done under the presence of the armed ranger guides in Lake Mburo National park can be having the best knowledge about the entire national park, they as well help you to easily spot the various nocturnal wildlife species to the tourists. As this offers the tourists with the best information and they can as well get the best answers about anything they want to know about the nocturnal animal species which can be answered by the armed ranger guides.
Night game drive in Lake Mburo national park is only for the people who are 15 years and above, the young children below that age are not allowed to carry out night game drive. On a Uganda safari there are other national parks in the country that offers the tourists with the night game drive which includes Murchison falls national park, Queen Elizabeth national park.
Best time to do game drives in Lake Mburo national park.
Game drive can be done all the year around, but the best time to carry out the activity is during the dry season during the months of June to September and December to January that is when the park roads can be easily passable compared to the rainy season when the roads can be slippery and muddy. Again during the dry season that’s when the vegetation in the park can be thin which allows the tourists to have the clear and best spot of the wildlife in the park in the open savanna plains.
Not only the night game drive, Lake Mburo national park has got other game drives that includes morning game drive, afternoon game drive and also the full day game drives that as well provides the tourists with the perfect spotting of the variety of animal species that are set in the park. As during the morning game drive that’s when the animal species can be seen more in the park as they can be active not in their hidden places, compared to the afternoon game drive when the chances of spotting animal species can be slightly less, that’s when most of the animal species in the park go to their hidden areas because of the sunshine in park especially during the dry season. Though during the afternoon game drives that’s when the various animal species do congregate around the water sources in the park to wash away their thirst which offers the tourists the chance to spot numerous number of the animal species.
Other ways on how tourists can spot the animal species in Lake Mburo national park minus the game drives in the park includes guided nature walks, horseback riding, boat cruise safari experience as these gives the tourists the meaning of the nature while exploring the park and viewing the various numbers of the animal species, bird species in the park.

Where to stay in Lake Mburo national park.
Tourists who come to do safaris in Lake Mburo national park are always provided with the most comfortable and suitable accommodation facilities to the tourists as these can be categorized into Budget, Mid-range and luxury accommodations such as Rwonyo rest camp, Mihingo lodge, Rakobo Rock, Mantana Tented camp, Eagle’s Nest Lodge, Lake Mburo safari lodge, Arcadia cottages and among others.
For more information about the Uganda safaris in Lake Mburo national park, do not forget to contact us at African Vacation Safaris we shall plan and prepare for you the best safaris that will offer you unforgettable safari memories. Also we can create for you the attractive combined safari itineraries with Lake Mburo national park like Queen Elizabeth national park, Bwindi impenetrable forest national park and among many others that will offer you the best combo safari experience that will never forget in the entire of your life.