Kibale Forest National Park Uganda

Kibale Forest National Park is one of the best safari destination in Africa for chimpanzee trekking in Uganda. Kibale’s 795km2  National Park contains one of the most beautiful and with the most varying tracts of tropical forest in the whole of Uganda. This is place to a number of forest wildlife, most especially 13 species of primate coupled with chimpanzees. The Forest covering predominates in the central and northern part of the park on the raised Fort Portal plateau. At the park’s northern tip,Kibale is highest and stands 1590m above sea level.

5-days African Jungle Tour Uganda
from USD $870 p/p

Come and witness the wonders of the African Jungle where Primate Lodge will be your home! This tour takes you from Kampala for a stay within the tropical forest of Kibale National Park. The forest is home to the highest density and greatest variety of primates found anywhere in East Africa! Experience a sensational chimp tracking in search of the wild chimpanzees, red-tailed monkeys, black-and-white colobus monkeys and many others. Explore the region of the crater lakes with its numerous small lakes, participate in a scenic nature walk at the foot of the famous Rwenzori Mountains and meet the locals in the tea plantations of Fort Portal. You will spend four nights at Primate Lodge Kibale, an exclusive eco-lodge in the middle of the forest with luxury safari tents, comfortable forest cottages and an adventurous Sky Tree House!
Contact Great Lakes Safaris to book this Trip.

4-days Primate Safari Kibale
from USD $890 p/p

Anxious to meet our close relatives in a dense tropical forest? Come and enjoy the magic of Africa’s most beautiful rainforest. Watch the chimpanzees playing, the colobus monkeys hiding and the baboons staring curiously at you. Apart from a sensational chimp tracking and impressive visit to Bigodi Swamp, one full day will be dedicated to chimp habituation in Kibale Forest. This project gives you the opportunity to spend an entire day in the presence of these amazing creatures. Join the chimpanzees early in the morning, while they climb out of their nests and see how they play, feed and rest in the trees. A unique and unforgettable experience!
Contact Great Lakes Safaris to book this Safari.

 

Chimpanzee Tours Uganda Information
Additionally the wettest area is Northern Kibale , receiving an average annual rainfall of equal to 1700mm, mainly during March-May and September-November. The climate is usually pleasant with an average annual temperature range of 14 to 27oC. Temperatures are at maximum (& rainfall lower) in the south where the terrain drops onto the blistering rift valley floor and forest provides way to open grassland.

Southern Kibale borders Queen Elizabeth National Park and collectively these preserved areas maintain a 180 kilometer long migration corridor for wildlife that stretches from the remote southern sector of Queen Elizabeth  National Park in “Ishasha”, to the north of Kibale in “Sebitoli”. The Kibale-Fort Portal region is one of Uganda’s most pleasing places to explore. The park is located close to the calm Ndali Kasenda crater area & which takes a half day’s drive to Queen Elizabeth, Rwenzori Mountains & Semuliki National Parks along with the Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve.

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Flora and fauna in Kibale Forest

Kibale’s varied altitude holds up different varieties of habitat, ranging from moist evergreen forest (wet tropical forest) along the Fort Portal plateau,then through the dry tropical forest (moist semi deciduous), and then to the woodland & savanna along the rift valley floor.

In the central part of the park, around Kanyanchu, the high forest consist of a mixture of evergreen trees and  deciduous with the evergreen species being dominant. Vegetation rise to over 55m and establish a semi closed canopy of massive stratified tree crowns. With shade tolerant herbs, a variety of ferns, shrubs and broad leaved forest grasses, the undergrowth is sparse. 351 tree species have been registered in the park.

Chimpanzee Safari Uganda Kibale

The density and diversity of primates in Kibale National Park is the highest in the whole of Africa. The most well known of its 13 species are the chimpanzees, our closest relative. Kibale’s 1450 chimpanzee indicate Uganda’s biggest population of this threatened primate.Additionally Kibale is home to the uncommon I’Hoest’s monkey as well as East Africa’s biggest population of the endangered red colobus monkey. The black & white colobus, red tailed monkey, blue monkey, olive baboon, grey cheeked mangabey, bush baby and potto are among the other primates.

Other mammals are also present, though they are hardly seen. These consist of buffalo, leopard, bush pig elephant, and duiker. A neat viewer could also see amphibians and reptiles and a colorful variety of butterflies.

The park is a home to 325 variety of bird species, including 6 that are native to the Albertine Rift destination, that is to say dusky crimsonwing, black-capped apalis, blue-headed sunbird, collared apalis,red-faced woodland warbler and purple-breasted sunbird. Other Kibale specials are the green breasted pitta,African pitta, black bee-eater,Abyssinian groundthrush, yellow spotted nicator, little greenbul, black-eared ground thrush, brownchested alethe, yellow rumped tinker bird, blue-breasted kingfisher,  along with the crowned eagle.

Local people

The people living around Kibale National Park are mostly Batoro and Bakiga. The Batoro are native to the region while the Bakiga are just immigrants from the thickly populated southwestern part of the country. The Batoro carry pride in the ethnical heritage of the Kingdom of Toro, a scion of the ancient kingdoms of the Great Lakes region un Africa. The king (Omukama) and the kingdom personify the traditional along with cultural values of the Batoro. The immigrants (Bakiga) still hold their culture and tradition as expressed in their dance,folklore, as well as language.

Chimpanzee and Primates Tour Africa Uganda