Chimpanzee Trekking

Chimps | Kibale | Uganda

Uganda's Kibale Forest National Park is a chunk of pristine equatorial rainforest which has been gazetted as a primate reserve. It is contiguous with the Queen Elizabeth National Park to the south-west, and lies at an altitude of about 5,000 feet on the eastern edge of the Rift Valley.

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The park is home to at least 60 mammal species, including thirteen primate species and a few elephant. but is best known for its healthy population of approximately 500 chimpanzees. Around 350 bird species have also been recorded and on a walk through the park you can expect to encounter hundreds of brilliantly coloured butterflies floating through the air!

Chimpanzee Trekking is the top attraction at Kibale, where you will set off with an extremely knowledgeable guide on the trail of one of the habituated chimpanzee groups. The Chimps share even more of our DNA (99.4%) than the Mountain Gorillas, so the opportunity to watch them at play is not one to be missed.

The nearby Bigodi Swamp offers a very pleasant guided 2-3 hour walk through another section of the park where you are likely to encounter several other species of primate - olive baboons, black-and-white colobus monkeys, red colobus monkeys, blue monkeys, red-tailed monkeys, grey-cheeked mangabeys, and vervet monkeys to name a few… The guides here are all from the local community and your fee goes directly into a sustainable local income-generation project.

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Page last updated on 12 Nov 2009