Bwindi National Park

Queen elizabeth National Park

Murchison Falls National Park

Kibale Forest Chimpanzee Park

Lake Mburo National Park

Semuliki Valley National Park

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Rwenzori Moutains National Park

Mount Elgon National Park

Kibale Forest National Park

With lust tropical rainforest and fascinating diversity of animals, Kibale Forest National Park (KNFP) is one of the most beautiful and stunning forests in Uganda. Kibale forest is certainly worth protecting as it is home to the largest number of our closest relatives inn Uganda, the ENDANGERED chimpanzees, as well as the THREATENED red tailed colobus monkeys and the rareI’Hoesti monkey (ref CITIES). The forest has one of the highest diversity and density of primates in Africa totaling to 13 species including the black and white colobus, blue monkey and grey-cheeked, bush babies and pottos. The park also hosts over 325 species of birds including the yellow spotted nucator, yellow rumped tinkerbird, little greenbul, green breasted pitta, the African pitta, the crowned Eagle and black bee eaters. There are a number of impressive mammals including forest elephant’s   buffaloes, bush pigs, duikers and bats. A keen observer may see some of the reptiles and ambitions as well as a colorful variety of butterflies. Over 250 tree species have been recorded.

The most important famous inhabitants of Kibale National park are the chimpanzees with over 1450 individuals are protected within this park. At Kanyanchu a community of chimpanzee has been habituated since 1991 allowing visitors the unique opportunity to view these great apes in their natural setting.

Tourist activities

Kanyanchu River Camp is the center of the major tourism activities. The friendly and experienced tour guides will share their knowledge with you on primates, birds, and medicinal plants and of course the chimpanzees

Chimpanzee habituation Experience
Chimpanzee habituation experience is an on going activity that entails following up the chimpanzees to make them get used to human presence without necessarily altering their natural behaviors. While on habituation, you expect to experience the chimps de-nesting /coming out of their nests between 5:30 to 6:30 am and then follow them up in their daily activities up to nesting/ making nests and going to sleep time between 6:30pm to 7:30pm. A visitor therefore has to be ready to start this activity by 5:30am from Kanyanchu River Camp.

Primate walk

This walk starts from Kanyanchu River Camp at 8:00am or 3:00pm. It lasts for 2-4hours and is the most popular walk, highlighting the diversity of different animals and plant species within the forest. This walk is restricted to four group of visitors each in the morning and the same in the afternoon

Forest Hike

This is a seasonal 12kms hike that is restricted to the dry seasons (mid November to February and June to September). It highlights the diverse habitats of the park including tropical rainforest, riverine forest, swamp and grassland. Visitors will have the chance to see a variety of birds and monkeys and sometimes duikers and bush pigs. The walk begins at 8:00am and ends at the elephant wallow around 2:00pm.

Long distance walk
For the adventures visitors who wants to enjoy more in the forest, you may take a 64km guided walk, which starts from either Kanyanchu or Sebitoli and end at either site, passing through different habitants and local communities over a period of 2-6days, camping at the community camp grounds. Community campsite at Kinoni Nyaibanda and Nyakalongo offer local dishes, traditional dances and walks to community shambas.

Kibale National Park Accommodation Facilities: The park is sorrounded by goos number of lodges: Ndali Lodge, Primate lodge for luxury . Then can stay at Chimp Nest , or in fort portal town at Fort Motel , Mountains of the Moon for up market and middle facilities or at Toro Resort

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