This safari takes you to Kibale Forest National Park in western Uganda mostly notable for the highest diversity and concentration of primates in Africa and a home to over 1450 endangered chimpanzees as well as the red colobus monkeys and the rare L’Hoest’s monkeys hence a destination worth consideration for adventure.
Entebe
Amity Safaris’ driver-tour guide will pick you up from Entebbe International Airport or a hotel of your stay down town Kampala in the morning and brief you about the entire safari. You will then embark on an approximately 5-hour drive journey to Kibale Forest National Park with a stopover in Fort Portal Tourism City for en route lunch.
After your lunch, the drive will Proceed to crater lake where you will have amazing photographs with a very stunning backgrounds of crater lake, and proceed to Kibale Forest National Park for dinner and overnight stay awaiting chimpanzee trekking on the following day.
Meal plan: Lunch and Dinner
Lodge: Isunga Lodge or its equivalent depending on availability
This day is your main and memorable adventure activity of Chimpanzee trekking and will commence with an early morning luscious breakfast at the lodge. Head out to the park office for a briefing about the rules and regulations regarding trekking these endangered humanlike species upon which you will enter the forest led by park rangers for security and guidance along with your tracking gears, packed picnic lunch, and water.
Chimpanzee tracking ranges between 2-5 hours and while tracking chimpanzees, encountering other primates like colobus monkeys, olive baboons, and red-tailed monkeys is most likely. Upon spotting endangered chimpanzees in their home forest, you will be allowed 1 hour observing them and get to learn more about their human-like behaviors and taking pictures as well, return to the lodge for a lunch break. In the afternoon, head out for a nature walk in Bigodi swamp, where you will enjoy walking through a wetland sighting a diverse array of bird species and antelopes like sitatunga and head back to the lodge later in the evening for a well-earned dinner and overnight resting.
This is the last day of 3 days of Kibale Primates Safari in Uganda and will commence with an early morning breakfast upon which you will head to “Amabere Ga Nya mwiru” caves where you will tour the caves with an intense and amazing history. Proceed to waterfalls and Crater Lakes for spectacular and memorial photographs as you conclude your adventurous safari. Have lunch and hit the road for an approximately 6-hour drive journey back to Kampala for your stay or Entebbe International Airport for a return flight.
Meal plan: Breakfast and Lunch
Lodge: No accommodation (End of tour)
