Lake Mburo National Park is a compact gem situated close to the highway that connects Kampala to the parks of western Uganda. It’s the smallest of Uganda’s savannah national park and is triggered by the ancient Precambrian metamorphic rocks which date back more than 500 million years and its home to 350 bird species as well as zebras, buffaloes, elands, Oribi, Defassa waterbucks, leopards, hyenas, reedbuck as well as topis. Together with 13 other lakes in the area, Lake Mburo forms part of a 50k m long wetalnad system linked by a swamp. Five of these lakes lie within the park’s borders. Lake Mburo now contains much woodland as there are no elephants to tame the vegetation. In the western part of the park, the savannah is interspersed with rocky ridges and forested gorges while patches of papyrus swamp and narrow bands of lush riparian woodland line many lakes.