Kibale National Park is suited in the western part of Uganda and covers an area of about 26km south-east of Fort Port.Kanyanchu river camp is well known to be the heart of tourism activities and this is easily accessible from Kampala from the North through Mubenda as well as Fort Portal.In the southern part,you can use Mbarara or Kamwenge road to get to the park. As a tourists its important to get yourself a car rental company such as Self Drive Uganda to ease your movement to Kibale Forest National Park.
Uganda safari travelers say that the northern route is shorter and faster and has a distance is about 300km with a tarmac road going to Fort Portal and also a distance of 36km on murram to Kanyanchu.The sebitoli forest camp is accessible and its second in the tourism sector.
Its a direct route from kampala with about 16km prior to Fort Port.In case you want to use a bus,it will be easy because it runs daily from Kampala to Fort port via Sebitoli then Fort Portal along with Kamwenge via Kanyanchu.
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. You can see all of these on a 3 days Kibale safari.
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.
