Kibale Forest National Park

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Kibale Forest National Park, Primate Tour in Uganda

Kibale Forest National Park is Uganda Safari Destination for Primate Tour in Uganda but most known for chimpanzee tracking tour where you will explore different spices of primates including Chimpanzee, black and white Colobus Monkeys, and many more other primates on your Uganda Primate Tour Trips. Primate tour in Uganda is carried out in Kibale forest, Queen Elizabeth, Murchison falls-Budongo forest, and Ngamba Island famously known for Chimp tracking tours.

Kibale Forest National Park, 766 km, forms a contiguous block with Queen Elizabeth National Park, at an altitude of 1.100-1.590m above sea level. The vegetation is dominated by the tropical rainforest which provides a good habitat for primates especially chimpanzees.

Species to encounter on your primate tour in Uganda. At least 60 mammal species are present, including elephants, buffaloes, leopards, warthogs, bushpigs, golden cats, and duikers. Kibale is well known for sighting primates, counting 13 species. Particularly, it hosts a large population of chimpanzees as well as vervet, red-tailed, Hoest’s and blue monkeys, red colobus, black and white colobus, grey-cheeked mangabey, olive baboons. The bird list records 335

species, of which four are only found here (Nahan’s francolin, Cassin’s spinetail, blue-headed bee-eater, and masked Apalis). Furthermore, more than 250 species of trees have been recorded.

Activities to do on your primate tour in Uganda. The main attraction of the park is the “chimpanzee trekking” from Kanyanchu gate. The second main activity is bird watching at “Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary”, near Bigodi, a trading center just outside the Park’s boundary. The activity consists of a guided walk through the Magombe swamp, with the possibility to see among others the great blue turaco and the papyrus gonolek. Nature walks are open in the Park, to see primates, birds, reptiles, medicinal plants.