Kibale Forest National Park is among the most loved parks by tourists while on their tours in Uganda, the park is located in the western parts of the country and the park for over years, it has kept its natural tropical rain forest with some varied swamps plus grasslands. The park is a home to a total of about 70 mammal species and the 13 primate’s species including the mostly visited chimpanzees. This park is one of the best rewarding places to explore while on your tour to Uganda. The park has got a variety of chimps and other primates found within the tropical forest.
Chimpanzee tracking and habituation, this is the best activity done from here, chimpanzee tracking offers a memorable experience to every primate lover since visitors enjoy the trek through the mocking and jokes done by the chimps as they slap, beg, jump and communicate using their language. Before that, visitors are advised to book chimpanzee trekking permits at $100 and chimpanzee habituation permit at $200. All these can be booked through Nature Adventure Africa safaris Limited, visitors who pay for a chimpanzee trekking permit enjoy the chimps for one hour only compared to those who pay for habituation experience who spend around 4-5hours with them.
Photographers can utilize this opportunity to do photography and filming, this requires the visitor to pay for the filming permit $1050 it excludes chimp permits and those who are to do photography can pay for $150 per day. This park is ranked among the best African national parks with the highest number of Primates estimated to be around 1450 individuals. The park has got other different primates including, L’Hoest’s Monkey, Black and white Colobus monkey, Blue monkey, Grey cheeked mangabey, red tailed monkey, Bush baby and Olive Baboons.
The park has got other different nice to see wild games, though these are somehow scarce and seeing them is not a guarantee though at a time they are seen wandering around the park. These include the Hyenas, Antelopes, bush pigs, duikers and Buffaloes not forgetting the forest elephants. All these add flavour to your chimp trekking safari within the forest. This park cannot leave you with misery since during the trekking process, park rangers provide to you all the relevant information including stories that will make you understand the true nature of the park and what’s all that is entailed in the park.
