Camp072-Kibale Forest National Park
Camp072- Kibale Forest National Park - go on a chimpanzee tracking safari!
Situated in western Uganda, the Kibale National Park covers an area of over 760 square kilometres, and joins with Queen Elizabeth National Park. Lush and beautiful, Kibale offers a tropical rainforest teeming with unique flora and wildlife, including over 1000 habituated chimpanzees.
From Kampala the park lies 320km along a mostly surfaced direct road. From Kasese it is only an hour driving journey. From Fort Portal, the park lies only 35 Km and can be accessed via a dirt road that connects to Kanyanchu Tourist Centre. For those who prefer to travel by air, a private charter flight to Kasese airstrip can be arranged and combined with a transfer to Kibale by road (1 hour Drive).
Though located near the foothills of the “Mountains of the Moon” in western Uganda, it is the most accessible of Uganda's major tropical rainforests. Kibale forest national park is a home to a remarkable 13 primate species with both nocturnal and diurnal species. These include chimpanzees, the localized red colobus monkey, L'Hoest's monkey, black and white colobus monkey, pottos, Guereza Colobus, Olive Baboon, Grey-cheeked Mangabeys, and Red-tailed Monkeys among others. The park has also got various vegetation zones which include mature, mid-altitude, moist semi-deciduous and evergreen forest (57%), grassland (15%), woodland (4%), lakes and wetlands (2%), colonizing forest (19%), and plantations of exotic trees (1%) ; primarily Cupressus lusitanica, Pinus patula, P. caribaea, and Eucalyptus species.
The Kibale equatorial rainforest contains the highest concentration of primates in the world, including about 500 chimpanzees. This enchanting park is full of lakes, marshes and grasslands and its slopes contain several distinct types of forests (lowland tropical rainforest, deciduous forest and montane forests). This vegetation has attracted a number of interesting mammals which include the elusive forest elephant, Buffaloes, Ichneumon, Bushbucks, African Civet cats, Banded and Marsh Mongooses, Bush pigs, Alexander's Cusimanse, Swamp Otter, Ratel and African Palm Civet.
Out of the 12 primate species living in Kibale, the chimpanzees attract the most attention, as a result chimpanzee tracking is the major tourism activity carried out in the park. Tracking these habituated and delightful apes is a memorable experience. Closely related to humans than to any other living creature, chimpanzees gives tremendous fun to watch as they squabble and play in fruiting trees within the park. Nature walks through the Bigodi swamp where a number of birds can be seen on the trail as well as conservation projects.
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