About Kibale
Park covers an area of 795km and its known to have one of Uganda’s most gorgeous tropical forest.
Travel
Chimpanzee Trekking
Chimp tracking guidelines, permits, booking procedures, itineraries and habituation information.
How to get there
Routes and distances, to Kibale ; covers an area of about 26km south-east of Fort Port.
services
Kibale Lodge Accommodation
Hotels and accommodation of all budgets, safari lodges, campsites, holiday inns and guest houses
Trekking Companies
Tour operators which can arrange safaris to Kibale in Uganda, tours and gorilla trekking safari holidays..
FEATURED
Forest Hikes
It’s a 12km hike and usually done in the dry seasons. The months are mid Novermber-Fedruary, June and September. Hiking helps discover the park’s assorted habitats such as river line forest, swamp, grassland and tropical rainforest.
Cultural Heritage & Natural Trail
The nature walk begins from Kanyanchu or Sebitoli and it takes about 2-6 days. The enroute will help discover the forest and late rest in the community-run campsites close to the villages of Kikoni,Nyakalongo and Nyaibanda..
Birding, Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary
It’s located outside the park in Magombe Swamp. It’s famous for wildlife such as chimpanzees, red colobus, black and white colobus, red tailed monkey, bushbuck as well as mongoose. It has about 138 bird species and these can be seen during the nature walks. The sanctuary was set up to preserve the exclusive environmental features along with the wetland.
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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.
Kibale is well known for its various and large population of Primates in Africa. The most popular include the great chimpanzees and its acknowledged that Kibale is about 1450 chimpanzees. It also habours a rare species called L’Hoest’s monkey along with the colobus monkeys. Among others include blue monkeys, black and white colobus,red tailed monkey, bush baby and cheeked mangabey.The rare seen wild animals include leopard, bush pig,duiker,buffalo,elephant,bufferflies,reptiles along with amphibians.
Flora and fauna of Kibale has been supported by different factors such as the wet tropical forest that grows on the Fort Portal Plateau.the dry tropical forest,savannah , the woodland as well as the diverse altitude.Kanyanchu in the central part has a dense forest that is a habitant to many species.The trees are high with above 55m and show a semi-closed canopy of trees with crowns.The Uganda forest has a variety of herbs,ferns and about 315 tree species have been noted in the park.
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