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What Animals Are There to See at Lake Mburo National Park?
With 350 bird species and 68 mammal species living within it, Lake Mburo National Park, like some of the better national parks in East Africa, is full of animals to see.
Unlike a recent trip to Mikumi National Park, in Tanzania, we didn’t have to drive long stretches to find game.
I could enumerate all the animals we saw that day, but I don’t think that would tell you much.
Rather, I would like to characterize the kind of game that we saw: we saw lots and lots of antelopes.
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Yawn, you might think, but actually that was not the case. We saw a wide variety of antelopes. I even saw a couple that I had never seen before (and I have been to quite a few national parks across East Africa).
My favorite was the weird-looking topi which I was seeing for the first time.
I also particularly enjoyed seeing the biggest antelope of them all, the eland (though the kind found in East Africa is smaller than the giant eland found elsewhere in the world) which was remarkably huge!
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Did you know that Lake Mburo National Park is the only place in Uganda where you can see impala?
That’s quite strange given that Uganda’s capital city, Kampala, is named after the impala.
To find out how Kampala got its name (from which you’ll quickly figure out why impala are no longer abundant in Uganda), click here.