BURIGI-CHATO

Stretching from Lake Victoria in the East to the Rwandan boundary in the West Burigi – Chato is an enormous piece of wild country encompassing fresh water lakes, long hills, rocky crags along escarpments, deeply set valleys lined with forest, open plains, swamps, rivers, flood plains and tall grass wooded savanna – mostly Combretum and Terminalia known as Miombo.

The key attractions in this National Park are the lakes with Lake Burigi being the 3rd largest lake in the country. It is a long lake with a number of islands, inlets and bays along its length, some of which are swampy and are home for the rare sitatunga antelope, and possibly also the even rarer shoebill stork.

The Park has huge number of wildlife animals including Elephant, Buffalo, zebra, giraffe, waterbuck ,eland, warthog, roan, topi, impala, sable and many other smaller species being regularly seen in this park. Oribi are also commonly found. A fewer common species is the swamp dwelling sitatunga. The big cats such as lion, leopard, dwelling sitatunga  and cheetah are present and can be enjoyed on many a game drive. There are also many crocodiles and hippo in the lakes and Rivers

Activities

• Game viewing by vehicle or from a boat,
• guided hiking
• fishing are the main activities.