3 days Chimpanzee tracking safari takes you on a Uganda primate safari to Kibale Forest national park – a primate capital in East Africa for an amazing and rewarding experience of chimpanzee trekking. This safari offers you an opportunity to explore jungles, swamps as well as grasslands around the forest, you will also do a 30 minutes forest walk in Kibale forests encountering different tree species, birds and butterflies.
Kibale Forest is one of the perfect places to do chimpanzee tracking safari in East Africa and the whole world, during your search for chimpanzees you will spot other animals such as elephants, hippos, warthogs, buffaloes, huge forest hogs, leopards, and lions plus birds species.
Kibale forest national park hosts 13 different species of primates including the highest population of chimpanzees in the world, these primates include the Grey Cheeked Mangabey Monkeys, Olive Baboon Monkey, Blue Monkeys, Black and White Colobus, Red Colobus Monkeys, L’Hoest’s Monkeys, Red Tailed Monkey, the Grey Vervet Monkey and Chimpanzees.
Highlights of 3 days Chimpanzee tracking safari
- Day 1: transfer to Kibale Forest
- Day 2: chimpanzee tracking adventure in Kibale Forest
- Day 3: Travel back to Kampala
Detailed itinerary of 3 days chimpanzee tracking safari
Day 1: transfer to Kibale Forest
After early breakfast at your hotel or on arrival at Entebbe International airport, you will be picked up by your safari driver guide and embark on a journey to Kibale Forest national park in western Uganda, during the journey you will enjoy the gorgeous country side and local homesteads, tea farms and banana plantations.
Arrive in time for lunch at your lodge and in the afternoon your will go for a Bigodi village walk, on this walk you will escorted by the local guide who is very knowledgeable about the village about the community and the different people inhabited there. During the village walk, you will visit the churches, be entertained by local dances and drama, enjoy he village lifestyle of the local people among others. Return to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation options
Budget Accommodation: Ruwenzori view Guest house or Chimpanzee Guest House,
Moderate Accommodation: Bush Lodge or Chimps Nest Lodge
Luxury Accommodation: Mountains of the Moon or Primate Lodge
Super Luxury Accommodation: Kyaninga lodge
Day 2: chimpanzee tracking adventure in Kibale Forest
Enjoy morning breakfast and head to the park’s headquarters by 08:00 am for briefing at the park’s headquarters about chimpanzee tracking experience, a ranger will take you through the rules and regulations to follow during the tracking experience and how to behave while in the presence of the chimpanzees.
Trek into the forests of Kibale looking for chimpanzees, the trek is headed by an experienced ranger who knows where to find the chimpanzees and when you encounter you will be given one hour of being in their presence while taking pictures and observing their behavior as they play on tree tops.
You will then trek back to the park’s headquarters and then to your lodge for lunch, in the afternoon our will go a Bigodi Swamp walk. Bigodi Swamp is a popular destination for nature walk and during the walk you will spot the shoebill, sitatunga antelopes and other primates such as chimpanzees among others. Return to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Budget Accommodation: Ruwenzori view Guest house or Chimpanzee Guest House,
Moderate Accommodation: Bush Lodge or Chimps Nest Lodge
Luxury Accommodation: Mountains of the Moon or Primate Lodge
Super Luxury Accommodation: Kyaninga lodge
Day Three: travel back to Kampala
After breakfast, you will checkout of your lodge and embark on a drive back to Kampala with en-route lunch arriving in late afternoon, you will be dropped off either at your hotel or at the airport for your departure flight back home.
End of the safari
