3 Days Chimpanzee Trekking in Uganda

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3 Days Chimpanzee Trekking in Uganda will take you to Western Uganda’s Kibale Forest National Park, one of Africa’s top rainforests. Kibale National Park is situated in the Kabarole District in western Uganda, a region gifted with a rich cultural history. The park is situated closest to Fort Portal, the largest town in the Kabarole District. The Batoro tribe is the largest population in this town. The park lies on 766 square kilometers of the moist rain forest.

Kibale Park in Uganda offers the finest chances to see these threatened animals for trekking. According to research, the forest is the best place in East Africa for travelers to find wild chimpanzees. After the Mountain Gorillas of Bwindi Forest National Park, these primates are the second-exciting and most well-known primates in Uganda. Walking through the rain woods and rainforests of Uganda in search of chimpanzees can take anywhere between two and five hours, depending on where the primates are. If visitors reach the endangered primates, they are only allowed to spend one hour with them.

3 Days Chimpanzee Trekking in Uganda, Chimpanzees are first tracked by park authorities (Park Rangers), who then conduct a Chimpanzee habituation process before inviting tourists to visit. This is done to ensure that they become accustomed to visitors before being trekked by visitors and to ensure that they get comfortable with visitors. Before visiting them, chimpanzees are “habituated,” which is a process that involves acclimating them to human presence. It takes up to two years for chimpanzees to become completely accustomed to this everyday practice, which is performed for several hours each day.

Kibale Forest National Park is one of Uganda’s most fascinating and diverse tropical forest areas, with pockets of grasslands and wetlands predominating in the park’s northern and center regions. The park is home to 351 types of trees, some of which reach heights of over 55 meters and have been there for more than 200 years. The park is commonly known as “the home of chimps and primate capital of the world’’

Kibale National Park’s richness and abundance of primate species are unmistakable, whether you refer to it as the primate capital of Africa, the richest eco system in Africa, or the primatologist’s paradise. If you find yourself in Uganda on a safari, visiting Kibale National Park for chimpanzee trekking or a primate walk will be the highlight of your adventure. The park blessed with 13 primate species however among all them the Chimpanzees are the most popular. Other species includes Red-tailed monkeys, Black and white colobus monkeys, L’Hoest monkeys, Olive baboons, Blue monkeys, Grey cheeked Mangabeys, Patas monkeys among others.